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Mystery Collection Disc 4

The Sign of Four, 1932, b&w. Graham Cutts (dir.), Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson, Herbert Lomas, Roy Emerton. 1:15 [1:13]. I came to this one positively predisposed. I enjoyed a couple of early Sherlock Holmes flicks in another set, I like the published stories. Unfortunately, the movie let me down—partly because [...]

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From the archive: Mr. Gielgud's "Hamlet"

... our eyes (helped by Miss Peggy Ashcroft's Ophelia and an unsurpassably lifelike Polonius by Mr. Miles Malleson) is absorbing. But for all that, is this the production of our hopes? Somehow not. It lacks the lightning flash; it is the truth of "Hamlet" but not the tempest or the terror. For some stretches, and notably for the whole recreation of the King and Queen (Mr. Leslie...