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They said it couldn’t be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor’s “notorious”, bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber actually made it to the screen in 1947 with full censorial approval. Of course, it was necessary to tone down the more erotic passages of Winsor’s novel, but the end result pleased fans of the book and bluenosed nonfans alike. A last-minute replacement for British import Peggy Cummins, Linda Darnell steps into the role of 17th century blonde bed-hopper Amber as though she’d been born to play it. Feeling suppressed by her Puritan upbringing, Amber heads to London, finding considerable success as a courtesan (that’s the polite word for it). The first real love of her life is dashing soldier Bruce Carlton, who leaves her pregnant and penniless when he marches off to war. Subsequent amours include the sadistic Earl of Radcliffe (a superbly loathsome performance by comic actor Richard Haydn), handsome highwayman Black Jack Mallard (John Russell) and privateer Captain Rex Morgan (Glenn Langan). Surviving the Plague and the Great London Fire with nary a hair out of place, Amber ends up in the arms of no less than King Charles II (wittily portrayed by George Sanders), but true love, as personified by Bruce Carlton, will always elude her.

Taking no chances, 20th Century-Fox sent out Forever Amber with a spoken prologue, heard over the opening credits, which explained that the film in no way endorsed its heroine’s libertine behavior, and that she would be amply punished for her sins before fadeout time (that prologue has thankfully been removed from current prints). A model of restraint by today’s standards, Forever Amber was sufficiently titillating in 1947 to post an enormous profit, far in excess of its $4 million budget.

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Government agent Richard Greene is sent to the French-Spanish border to round up smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. He is helped by singer Anouk Aimée with whom he falls in love.

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Unpublished Story is an extremely well executed British World War II propaganda piece, and what sets it apart from other entries in this subgenre is its clever plot centered around that very topic. The film’s pace is unstoppable; the script by Patrick Kirwan and Lesley Storm based on a story by Anthony Havelock-Allan is intelligent, well-written, and unique in its approach to the subject matter; and the acting is of the usual high caliber that devotees of even the lowest-budgeted British quickies have come to expect in which the smallest roles are perfectly cast.

Richard Greene, who is excellent here, appeared in dozens of costume epics throughout the 1940s and ’50s, starring in B-flicks but usually playing second banana to the likes of Cornell Wilde in major productions such as Otto Preminger’s Forever Amber in 1947. I first knew him as Robin Hood in the TV series that ran from 1955 to 1960, and other horror fans may remember him in the “Wish You Were Here” episode of Freddie Francis’s EC Comics-style anthology Tales from the Crypt (1972), a horrifyingly gruesome take on “The Monkey’s Paw” in which he suffered a fate literally worse than death. He’s the British equivalent of Robert Cummings, a handsome, dashing, and dedicated actor who rarely got the recognition he deserved, and his role in Unpublished Story is similar to Cummings’s character in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur made the same year.

Valerie Hobson is probably best known as Colin Clive’s wife in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Henry Hull’s distaff side in Werewolf of London. She does play a fashion writer here with “Clothes by Rahvis,” but some of her costumes look so outré they could have been leftovers from either of those two earlier films. She had a lead role opposite Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Raoul Walsh’s Jump for Glory in 1937, and while she gives a fine performance here, she wasn’t really recognized until toward the end of her career in Kind Hearts and Cornets (1949) and The Rocking Horse Winner (1950).

The film was directed by Harold French who helmed two other British propaganda films in 1942, The Day Will Dawn and Secret Mission, and several others throughout the war, along with some light comedies. The cinematography is by Bernard Knowles, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on five films in the 1930s including The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, and Sabotage, and the original Gaslight directed by Thorold Dickinson and released in the United States as Angel Street. –DVD Verdict

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1939) is the most well-known cinematic adaptation of the book, and is often regarded as one of the better film versions of it. It differs somewhat, but not as much as the 1959 film version.

The film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville. Because the studio apparently had no idea that the film would be such a hit, and that Rathbone and Bruce would make many more Sherlock Holmes films and be forever linked with Holmes and Watson, top billing went to Richard Greene, who was the film’s romantic lead. Rathbone was billed second. Wendy Barrie, who played Beryl Stapleton, the woman with whom Greene falls in love, received third billing, and Nigel Bruce, the film’s Dr. Watson, was billed fourth. In all other Holmes films, Rathbone and Bruce would receive first and second billing.

The Hound of the Baskervilles also marks the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies starring Rathbone and Bruce as the detective duo.

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The post Sidney Lanfield – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth’s oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol’s very British Dr. Nayland Smith.

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In the 1800s, American inventor Robert Fulton (Richard Greene) travels from Europe to New York intent on building a steamboat that will revolutionize river travel between waterfront boroughs, but instead gets a rude welcome from a vicious shipyard boss at a local tavern owned by salty beauty Pat O’Day (Alice Faye). Pat takes a shine to Fulton and offers to help him out, but her jealous boyfriend — sailor Charles Brownne (Fred MacMurray) — fears the new vessel will put him out of work.

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Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate to supply the rebels…then is found dead, an apparent suicide. To clear their father, the four sons must globetrot in a hazardous search for evidence, closely followed by Geoffrey’s sweetheart Lynn Cherrington.

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