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Entries Tagged as 'Michael Redgrave'

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962, Tony Richardson)

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Despite its title, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner doesn’t really concern itself with loneliness and the only long distance running is secondary in the narrative. The film’s really something of a social piece, made rather conspicuous in the third act, with the comparison between the public school and the reform school. That moment, […]

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Tagged: Alan Stilltoe· British Lion-Columbia Distributors· Michael Redgrave· Tony Richardson· ★★

The Hill (1965, Sidney Lumet)

September 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Hill is quite a few things–Sidney Lumet doing another stage adaptation, almost in real time, a la Twelve Angry Men, a prison drama, a race drama, a military drama, and an example of a decent Sean Connery performance (not a particularly good one, but a decent one). It’s incredibly contrived–desert British prison camp in […]

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Tagged: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Michael Redgrave· Ossie Davis· R.S. Allen· Ray Rigby· Sean Connery· Sidney Lumet·

The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)

February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

The Lady Vanishes might be the most fun Hitchcock ever lets an audience have with one of his films. Vanishes maintains a comedic sensibility throughout and for the most part, that sensibility overtakes the mystery element. Even the mystery element gives way to an action element–besides North by Northwest (which only barely qualifies) and Foreign […]

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Tagged: Alfred Hitchcock· Ethel Lina White· Frank Launder· Gainsborough Pictures· Margaret Lockwood· Michael Redgrave· Paul Lukas· Sidney Gilliat· ★★★★

The Heroes of Telemark (1965, Anthony Mann)

March 26th, 2006 · No Comments

I was going to start this post saying I’d never seen Richard Harris so young before, but I guess I have seen The Molly Maguires, which was a little later, but he was still young. He’s larger than life in The Heroes of Telemark, nothing like how I’m used to seeing him. He’s got to […]

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Tagged: Anthony Mann· Ben Barzman· Ivan Moffat· J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors· John Drummond· Kirk Douglas· Knut Haukelid· Michael Redgrave· ★½

Dead of Night (1945, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer)

November 18th, 2005 · No Comments

Dead of Night is an Ealing anthology from 1945. I don’t know where it fits in the history of anthology films–films composed of a number of shorts, with or without a “bridging” sequence to tie them–because I’m not particularly familiar with the genre. I saw Dead of Night because movielens recommended it, recommended it a […]

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Tagged: Alberto Cavalcanti· Angus MacPhail· Basil Dearden· Charles Crichton· E.F. Benson· Ealing Studios· H.G. Wells· John Baines· Michael Redgrave· Robert Hamer· T.E.B. Clarke· ★½

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