THE MEMPHIS BELLE: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) I recently had the privilege of watching the 2018 restored print of William Wyler’s 1944 film of the twenty-fifth and final bombing mission of a B-17, the ‘Memphis Belle’, as it participated in a raid on the U-boat pens […]
Scarlett O’Hara and Tara in Gone with the Wind (1939) In 1935, David O. Selznick purchased the old Thomas Ince Studio near MGM for his own independent productions, one of which was 1939’s Gone with the Wind. When he needed to film the burning of Atlanta […]
A couple of nights ago, around midnight, Foxtel showed the Cole Porter biopic Night and Day. I had seen bits and pieces of it over the years, but never the lot. Why? Because it is bloody awful, that’s why! Nevertheless, I happen to think […]
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