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Blithe Spirit
: essential video:Noel Coward's favorite play was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known for adapting Dickens in the '40s. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. ...
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
: essential video:Noel Coward's favorite play was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known for adapting Dickens in the '40s. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
: :If you're looking for the definitive example of dry British wit, look no further than The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director (Anthony Asquith was raised in the rarified, upper-class atmosphere of Wilde's play) and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and you've got a comedic soufflé that's been cooked to perfection. Opening with a proscenium nod to its theatrical origins, the ...
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Blithe Spirit
: essential video:Noel Coward's favorite play was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known for adapting Dickens in the '40s. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. ...
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Murder at the Gallop
: essential video:Noel Coward's favorite play was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known for adapting Dickens in the '40s. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. ...
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Murder Ahoy
: essential video:Noel Coward's favorite play was certainly a departure for David Lean, best known for adapting Dickens in the '40s. While it's the director's only comedy, the result is a delightful gem. Rex Harrison is an acerbic author haunted by the ghost of first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond), who tries to seduce him all over again. This throws his second wife (Constance Cummings) into a panic, second-guessing her lack of passion. It's a celestial sex romp that hasn't lost its bite. Margaret Rutherford, as always, steals the show as the sardonic medium. ...
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Chimes At Midnight (Falstaff)
: :Considered Orson Welles' final masterpiece, this powerful and poignant epic was inspired by Shakespeare's plays 'Henry IV,' 'Henry V,' 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'Richard II.' Welles stars as Falstaff, the surrogate father of Prince Hal, who shuns Falstaff's friendship when he ascends to the throne of his real father, Henry IV. With Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud. AKA: 'Falstaff.' 115 min.
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Murder She Said
: :Considered Orson Welles' final masterpiece, this powerful and poignant epic was inspired by Shakespeare's plays 'Henry IV,' 'Henry V,' 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'Richard II.' Welles stars as Falstaff, the surrogate father of Prince Hal, who shuns Falstaff's friendship when he ascends to the throne of his real father, Henry IV. With Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud. AKA: 'Falstaff.' 115 min.
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Murder Most Foul
: :Considered Orson Welles' final masterpiece, this powerful and poignant epic was inspired by Shakespeare's plays 'Henry IV,' 'Henry V,' 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'Richard II.' Welles stars as Falstaff, the surrogate father of Prince Hal, who shuns Falstaff's friendship when he ascends to the throne of his real father, Henry IV. With Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud. AKA: 'Falstaff.' 115 min.
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Countess From Hong Kong
: :Charlie Chaplin's last film is the cinematic equivalent of Willie Mays staying too long in baseball--a sad farewell from someone who has clearly lost his touch. Marlon Brando (who famously did not get along with Chaplin and initiated, with this film, his curious habit of undermining his directors' best intentions) plays an American millionaire leaving Hong Kong to assume an ambassadorship. He discovers Sophia Loren--playing a daughter of Russian aristocrats and a former gangster moll--concealed in his closet onboard the outbound ship, hoping to gain passage to the States. Brando, looking none too ...
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