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Tag Archives: Raymond Massey
49th Parallel (AKA The Invaders)
49th Parallel is a propaganda film that doesn’t feel like one, though it is as potent as any persuasive film could be. (It was called The Invaders when first released in the U.S.) It’s also an unusual combination of star … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged 49th Parallel, Anton Walbrook, Canada, David Lean, Dr. Zhivago, Eric Portman, Freddie Young, Glynis Johns, Laurence Olivier, Lawrence of Arabia, Leslie Howard, Nazi, Nazis, Niagara Falls, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Raymond Massey, Ryan’s Daughter, St. Lawrence River, The Invaders, Third Reich
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Watch on the Rhine (1943) and In Which We Serve (1942)
My excursions into the films of Powell and Pressburger brought me back into the world of the 1940s, and specifically, World War II. My next film to see is 49th Parallel (also known as The Invaders in the U.S.), which … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged Bernard Miles, Bette Davis, Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Celia Johnson, Dashiell Hammett, David Lean, Dr. Zhivago, East of Eden, Elizabeth Taylor, Great Expectations, Guy Green, Humphrey Bogart, In Which We Serve, John Mills, Lawrence of Arabia, Lillian Hellman, Michael Wilding, Noel Coward, Paul Lukas, Powell and Pressburger, Raymond Massey, Richard Attenborough, Ronald Neame, The 49th Parallel, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Invaders, Watch on the Rhine
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A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven (1946)
I took another trip to the 1940s, and to England, and to something like heaven. But really, I was taking another trip to the land of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (see reviews of Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes), … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged "I Know Where I'm Going", A Matter of Life and Death, A Streetcar Named Desire, Alfred Hitchcock, Black Narcissus, David Niven, Emeric Pressburger, Gandhi, It's a Wonderful Life, J.K. Rowling, Jack Cardiff, Kathleen Byron, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Michael Powell, Michael Sheen, Notorious, Raymond Massey, Richard Attenborough, Roger Livesey, Stairway to Heaven, Technicolor, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, The Seventh Seal, The Wizard of Oz, Things to Come
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