The Robert Donat Collection (The Count Of Monte Cristo / The 39 Steps / The Ghost Goes West) 1934 / 1935
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... you did give a damn, at least as far as the stars of Gone With the Wind are concerned. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh's performances as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara were named your favorites in our latest MD Poll , with the former edging out early contender James Stewart while the latter garnering nearly half of the total votes. Following Mr. Smith in the male race was Leigh's husband Laurence...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Robert (Robert Donat), a mousy accountant, and timid, sickly Cathy (Deborah Kerr) have settled into a dull marriage in their drab London flat. Robert joins the Royal Navy in 1940, and Cathy thereafter joins the Wrens, leading to a separation of three years. During their military service, Robert and Cathy each blossom into new people thanks to this VACATION FROM MARRIAGE. This film is a wonderful mood...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Knight Without Armour1:40am Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009 Repeat CC PG Ainsley Fotheringill is rescued by the Red Army and must escort Countess Alexandra Vladnoff to Petrograd, but matters are complicated when they fall in love. CAST: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat DIR: Jacques Feyder (1937)
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² ....
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps The film that launched Hitchcock's career Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, John Buchan Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie Funny, thrilling, and sexy, Hitchcock’s prototypical wrong-man thriller - in which a Canadian, living and working in London, is wrongly implicated in the murder of a secret...
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
John Buchan introduced Richard Hannay to the world in his 1915 bestseller, The Thirty-Nine Steps . Buchan had no idea that the short novel would both launch his own literary career, and blaze a trail for other thriller writers to follow. Ninety-four years later, The Thirty-Nine Steps is still appearing at the theatre and on the small screen, and Hannay – the prototype secret agent – is...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Since Alistair Cooke's death in March 2004, his legacy has passed from the airwaves to the printed page. Reprints of 'Alistair Cooke's America' and 'Six Men' have appeared, as well as a comprehensive single-volume selection of his 'Letters from America', the long presumed lost manuscript 'American Journey', and themed volumes of his writing which chronicle his political commentary and his love of golf....
Ken's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Sometimes it comes as a surprise to realize that things we’d been thinking of as completely different are actually quite similar. In films we are used to this sort of revelation. After all, students of the films of Alfred Hitchcock have realized for years that most of his thrillers are actually somewhat disguised [...]
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
The Free Fishers by John Buchan, edited by Douglas Hurd, is published by Polygon, £7.99
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Legit Reviews: The belly laughs of Patrick Barlow's live adaptation are positively restorative.
Redtree Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
A few weeks back I came across the old film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the one from 1939 with Robert Donat, not the later awful musical version with Peter O’Toole. It’s a very sweet chronicle of a schoolmaster’s life at a British upper crust boarding school, the type of film that would never be made today. [...]
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Today in 1939, a sleeper flick opened in U.S. movie theaters that would teach those "Gone With the Wind" hotshots a lesson. Make that an Oscar lesson — with Robert Donat at the head of the best-actor class. At the 1939 Academy Awards, "Gone With the Wind" (13 nominations) seemed like a shoo-in to sweep most races, including best actor for Clark Gable, but he lost to Donat,...
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