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1.Green Dolphin Street starring: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart, Frank Morgan directed by: Victor Saville March 07, 1994
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"Green Dolphin Street" is one of those cheesefests of Hollywood's Golden Age that has slipped into obscurity. At least "Black Narcissus",the camp classic,has its own Criterion Edition. Why NOT the love triangle set in New Zealand, with its needlessly complicated plot and Lana Turner in her fantastical outfits? "Green Dolphin Street" is all about two sisters who live on the Channel Islands between England and France. There's the good girl, Marguerite (Donna Reed), and the bad grrrrl Marianne (Lana Turner). They're both enamored of the dull William (Richard Hart) William sets off to China as a trader. After a drunken night, he dashes off a letter to his intended... but he writes "Marianne" instead of "Marguerite." Friends don't let friends drink and write. William realizes his mistake ... Read More

2.First a Girl (Hollywood Gold Volume 15) starring: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, Alfred Drayton directed by: Victor Saville November 28, 2000
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This little British-made gem of a film was one of the last movies to be released exclusively on VHS format. Too bad it wasn't one of the first to be released on DVD. It is similar in storyline to Victor/Victoria, but it is different enough that you can watch both and enjoy the comparisons without feeling that you have just watched the same film twice. Elizabeth (Jessie Matthews) is a British shop girl working in a fashion boutique that caters to the wealthy. She dreams of being a famous entertainer. One rainy day - while wearing the fancy clothes she is supposed to be delivering - she runs into Victor, aspiring Shakespearean actor and actual female impersonator who works the bawdy music halls of London. He is down to his last shilling when he gets a one-time engagement to work in one ... Read More

3.Silver Chalice starring: Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman, Walter Hampden directed by: Victor Saville July 07, 1994
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One of the worst films in this genre starring Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Jack Palance, Pier Angeli, Joseph Wiseman, Natalie Wood, E.G. Marshall, Lorne Greene and Alexander Scourby. The story follows the life of a Greek slave asked to craft a silver chalice to be used at the Last Supper. Horrible performances and direction all around except for Jack Palance as Simon the Magician: I would give the film a -100 if Palance weren't in it. Given the dialogue and direction, it's immediately evident that those involved knew little about antiquity or anything about film making in general. The horribly fake backdrops leave the impression of a bad play rather than a movie. This is the film on which Paul Newman commented that it would be his last appearance in sandals and a cocktail dress: I'd be ashamed ... Read More

4.Tonight & Every Night starring: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt, Leslie Brooks directed by: Victor Saville September 26, 1997
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His name was Marc Platt, a brilliant dancer who made his movie debut in this film, and I doubt if anybody who ever saw it has forgotten him, though they may not remember his name. Marc Platt was, I think, the first American dancer to join the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlos when it settled in the US during the Second World War. He was a dancer on Broadway, too, and today the movie he's most likely to be remembered for, is SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, in which he, naturally, is one of the brothers. But in Tonight and Every Night he has a great introduction. He comes as a young dancer to get a job in the theater, run by Florence Bates, who plays a wry version of the same character played recently by Judy Dench. This was the London theater that never closed during the German bombing of the city, which ... Read More

5.The Silver Chalice starring: Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman, Walter Hampden directed by: Victor Saville July 02, 1996
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One of the worst films in this genre starring Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Jack Palance, Pier Angeli, Joseph Wiseman, Natalie Wood, E.G. Marshall, Lorne Greene and Alexander Scourby. The story follows the life of a Greek slave asked to craft a silver chalice to be used at the Last Supper. Horrible performances and direction all around except for Jack Palance as Simon the Magician: I would give the film a -100 if Palance weren't in it. Given the dialogue and direction, it's immediately evident that those involved knew little about antiquity or anything about film making in general. The horribly fake backdrops leave the impression of a bad play rather than a movie. This is the film on which Paul Newman commented that it would be his last appearance in sandals and a cocktail dress: I'd be ashamed too if I were ... Read More

6.Forever & A Day starring: Harry Allen, May Beatty, Billy Bevan, Reginald Gardiner, Ernest Grooney directed by: Cedric Hardwicke, René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson June 02, 1993
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In 1943 this episodic story tells the history of Britain by following the history of a house and the two families whose lives were entwined with it. This RKO film opens by saying that it was collaborative effort of many studios. Having more than 30 major stars, many of them Brits, and listing 7 directors, its stated purpose is to serve as a tribute to "united effort" clearly an implicit allusion to the United States joining in WWII. The opening drags a bit, an American in war torn England making the moves on a practical, modest Greer Garson-esque British young woman - .who just happens to own the painting he has come to negotiate for. At a point in their conversation, they stand on a porch, and she talks of wanting to know the people who lived there before; it is an effecting moment, where suddenly the camera ... Read More

7.Evergreen starring: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour, Barry Mackay directed by: Victor Saville May 11, 1993
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In 1943 this episodic story tells the history of Britain by following the history of a house and the two families whose lives were entwined with it. This RKO film opens by saying that it was collaborative effort of many studios. Having more than 30 major stars, many of them Brits, and listing 7 directors, its stated purpose is to serve as a tribute to "united effort" clearly an implicit allusion to the United States joining in WWII. The opening drags a bit, an American in war torn England making the moves on a practical, modest Greer Garson-esque British young woman - .who just happens to own the painting he has come to negotiate for. At a point in their conversation, they stand on a porch, and she talks of wanting to know the people who lived there before; it is an effecting moment, where suddenly the camera ... Read More

8.South Riding starring: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, Marie Lohr directed by: Victor Saville June 27, 2000
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I purchased a venerable old VHS copy of this film based on my love of British cinema and the reader's comments above. Surprise, surprise. "South Riding" is indeed wonderful, but the plot has nothing to do with what the other reviewer described. There is no dog, no beleaguered dog owner, no cruel magistrate and no crusading newspaperman. Ralph Richardson plays a down-on-his-luck member of the gentry who has fallen on hard times due to the prolonged confinement of his mentally disturbed wife at an expensive sanitarium. The bad guy is a local developer who is trying to fraudulently manipulate the town council into gaining development rights on a housing project. Edmund Gwenn makes an appearance as a hypocritical preacher and victim of a blackmail plot. And the very young Glynis Johns plays Richardson's pampered daughter, ... Read More

9.Conspirator (1949) starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman directed by: Victor Saville September 01, 1998
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This movie is set in post-World War II London, and is about a young woman who marries an older man who works as a Soviet spy. She discovers his secret, and tries to make him quit. He continues his secret life, and she threatens to expose him to the authorities. He must kill her, but things don't go quite as planned. There are some surprise plot twists not expected, especially at the end. Elizabeth Taylor was only around 17 when this movie came out, and she's stunningly gorgeous here. Robert Taylor plays her husband, and he does a great job as the sinister husband with a double life. I liked this movie well enough that I would watch it again.

10.Forever and a Day starring: Harry Allen, May Beatty, Billy Bevan, Reginald Gardiner, Ernest Grooney directed by: Cedric Hardwicke, René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson June 06, 2000
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In 1943 this episodic story tells the history of Britain by following the history of a house and the two families whose lives were entwined with it. This RKO film opens by saying that it was collaborative effort of many studios. Having more than 30 major stars, many of them Brits, and listing 7 directors, its stated purpose is to serve as a tribute to "united effort" clearly an implicit allusion to the United States joining in WWII. The opening drags a bit, an American in war torn England making the moves on a practical, modest Greer Garson-esque British young woman - .who just happens to own the painting he has come to negotiate for. At a point in their conversation, they stand on a porch, and she talks of wanting to know the people who lived there before; it is an effecting moment, where suddenly the camera pulls blocks away ... Read More

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