" A King in New York ", 1957. Charles Chaplin. A beautiful restoration with the full glories of black and white on display. The film itself was silly and Chaplin was a cold, one-dimensional actor in his speaking parts. He was always the same and he should never have made a sound film with ...

Platinum Blonde (1931) with Jean Harlow, Robert Williams and Loretta Young. Currently available on YouTube, I had never seen it before. Terrific performance from Robert Williams, who died shortly after it was released - he would have had a great career I'm sure. A witty script by Robert Riskin and ...

What's the name of that film with the picture above: MacMurray, Marjorie Main and Peter Whitney??

" Address Unknown ", Director William Cameron Menzies, Cinematography Rudolph Mate starring Paul Lukas, Mady Christians. Excellent restoration. Quite a gruelling film about Germany when Hitler came to power and the Jews. Made in 1944 no doubt as a propaganda vehicle. Recommended. https://w...

Nikolai Kapustin, "Eight Concert Etudes". Absolute WOW factor.

" Count Five and Die ", B&W, 1957 starring Jeffrey Hunter and Nigel Patrick. The quality isn't very good and it didn't look Cinemascope to me; the aspect ratio was obviously squeezed for TV. It's a good film about WW2 and the Normandy landings - based on true events - with more twists ...

Carousel 's story problem aside, it's one of my favorite scores. The "bench scene" which weaves in and out of dialogue and song is something that hasn't really been equaled since (it's the scene with If I Loved You ) in musicals. South Pacific 's Twin Soliloquies comes close, but is much ...

The film is actually based on a serious play, " Liliom " by Ferenc Molnar (Hungarian-American playwright) and it has been transposed to serious cinema a few times before and, of course, the stage was its original home. There was always darkness in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals; do...

" Carousel ", 1955. The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones director Henry King. A glorious restoration of image and sound. A scene of particular note in this beautiful film - not to be compared with the absolutely astonishing ballet segment - is "When The ...

"J ane Eyre ", 1943, Robert Stevenson (director) Bernard Herrmann (score). Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor. It's been years since I've seen this film and a nice restoration is available. Herrmann's music is the best part of the film and the...

"Pimpernel Smith", 1941, Anatole de Grunwald/Leslie Howard, starring Leslie Howard. Not a bad little film about the war. Howard always seemed old to me in every film he made!!

"Some Came Running ", 1958, Vincente Minnelli. Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin. I watched a restored wide-screen version on YouTube and it won't be around long. Minnelli's production design skills are in evidence, particularly in the final, devastating scene. No doubt influen...

Radio BR-KLASSIC. (Bayern Classic FM.) One of the best 'classical' stations, from Germany, which can be streamed. The ideal salve to publicly funded English-speaking 'classic' stations which are boring to the point of being comatose. https://au.radio.net/s/brklassik You aren't trying to say Classic...

" Sullivan's Travels ", 1941, Preston Sturges, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. It's a great film and very funny in parts, especially the 'insider' jokes about film directors. I loved the parody of Welles' projection room scene from 'Citizen Kane ' very early in the film and the man...

Radio BR-KLASSIC. (Bayern Classic FM.) One of the best 'classical' stations, from Germany, which can be streamed. The ideal salve to publicly funded English-speaking 'classic' stations which are boring to the point of being comatose.

https://au.radio.net/s/brklassik