When Movies Were Good

The theme of this episode is director Billy Wilder, the Austrian-born filmmaker who escaped the Nazis and created some of Hollywood's greatest masterpieces. His credits include Double Indemnity, the definitive movie of the film noir genre. Wilder was a director of contrasts and as well as his iconic crime films also directed many major comedies of his time. The two movies we will be discussing in this episode are Sunset Boulevard, starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson as well as the comedy Some

In this episode we discuss two films by legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor. The first, A Place in The Sun (1951), was made with Taylor's much loved colleague Montgomery Clift when she was only seventeen years old. Despite her youth when making the film Taylor makes full use in this role of her years of experience as a child actress and teen idol. Next we discuss Taylor's significantly more mature role in the 1958 adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We wish to apologise for

The theme for our first episode is legendary filmmaker Orson Welles. We will be discussing his first movie Citizen Kane (1941), frequently referred to by critics as the greatest movie ever made, together with his classic thriller The Stranger (1946). Please be aware that owing to COVID-19 restrictions at the time of recording we were required to record the podcast through video link which means that there may be some small breakage in audio.

In this episode the theme we have chosen to follow is the work of two Hollywood sisters, Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. First we discuss The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), the swashbuckling Technicolor classic featuring Olivia de Havilland and her longtime screen partner Errol Flynn. Next we discuss Rebecca, featuring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in Alfred Hitchcock's first American production. Please note that Covid-19 restrictions at the time of recording have required us to record