Walter Pidgeon stars as a big game hunter who goes after the biggest game of all – Adolph Hitler – in this 1941 film noir set in the early days of World War II.
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‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Criterion Channel
Made for MGM in 1945, the handsome and elegant The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) is still the best adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel. Hurd Hatfield plays Dorian Gray, a handsome, earnest young man who stops aging after having his portrait painted, and George Sanders is Lord Henry Wotton, the hedonistic cynic who tempts […]
Blu-ray: Laird Cregar is ‘The Lodger’ on Kino
Laird Cregar is The Lodger (1944) (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) in the third screen adaptation of the thriller by Marie Belloc Lowndes (the most famous was the 1926 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock) set in London during the reign of Jack the Ripper. While the city panics in the wake of another murder of […]