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THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA - Review
Posted on 26-Jul-2010 at 8:50AM, 0 comments
The Barefoot Contessa is a pastiche of realism, fantasy and clichés, the first film written, produced and directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz.
Read Full PostMRS MINIVER - Review
Posted on 26-Jul-2010 at 8:49AM, 0 comments
William Wyler’s Mrs Minver has a well deserved reputation as one of the finest MGM films of the 1940’s. Based on the popular book by Jan Struther, Mrs Miniver is a beautiful, heart warming and sometimes harrowing drama of a family in England during the early days of World War II.
Read Full PostDESTINATION TOKYO - Review
Posted on 26-Jul-2010 at 8:47AM, 0 comments
Warner Brothers made several fine tributes to America’s Armed Services during World War II and most of them give or take the obvious propaganda points still make fine entertainment.
Read Full PostDOUBLE INDEMNITY - Review
Posted on 26-Jul-2010 at 8:45AM, 1 comment
If one were to judge Billy Wilder’s work and point of view in the cinema only by this adaptation of James M Cain’s novel he could be called the Emile Zola of the American film.
Read Full PostBLACK NARCISSUS - Review
Posted on 26-Jul-2010 at 8:42AM, 0 comments
Black Narcissus a spellbinding film, is based on the novel by Rumer Godden and was written produced and directed by The Archers, the phenomenal movie team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Read Full PostFOX Classics TV guide
Thursday, 23 May 2013
- 3:30 PM Gunsmoke
- 4:30 PM Bonanza
- 5:30 PM The Golden Girls
- 6:00 PM 'Allo 'Allo!
- 6:30 PM Are You Being Served?
- 7:00 PM Jeopardy!
- 7:30 PM M*A*S*H
- 8:00 PM Keeping Up Appearances
- 8:35 PM Papillon
- 11:00 PM East of Eden
- 12:50 AM Running Scared
- 2:30 AM Murder, She Wrote
- 3:30 AM Walker, Texas Ranger
- 4:30 AM M*A*S*H
- 5:00 AM The Big Valley
- End of programming for Thursday, 23 May 2013