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Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor

Andre Soares on April 4, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA's Festival of Preservation you'll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang's unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money). Unlike Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor's similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret [...]

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Best Films – 1944

Andre Soares on August 31, 2004 — Leave a Comment

John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat FILM I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi Crime by Night d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil Dragon Seed d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts Laura d: Otto Preminger; scr: [...]

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