Life of Emile Zola: Elephant in the room
Paul Muni and Vladimir Sokoloff. Photo: Warner In the 1930s, biographical films won Best Picture two years in a row. In The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell played the legendary theatrical…
The Spider Woman
After faking his death in order to investigate a string of suspicious ”suicides” in London, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) reaches the conclusion that there’s a ”female Moriarty” at work. The…