Gaslight: Marriage of Delusion

Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: MGM It isn’t often that the title of a movie gives rise to a new verb, but Gaslight did. When we say that someone’s…

Is Paris Burning?

The book is a classic, dramatized account of the liberation of Paris in 1944, creating a mosaic of exciting individual stories in the shadow of great historical events. The movie…

Around the World in Eighty Days 

In the late 1800s, London aristocrat Phileas Fogg (David Niven) makes a wager with fellow members at the Reform Club that he can travel around the world in as little…

Casino Royale

Sir James Bond (David Niven) is persuaded to come out of retirement to destroy the criminal organization SMERSH; as the new M, he gives every agent the name "James Bond"…