Oliver Twist: Surviving the Streets

John Howard Davies and Robert Newton. Photo: General Film Distributors There are stories about David O. Selznick attacking Alec Guinness at a party over his portrayal of Fagin in this…

Great Expectations: Educating Pip

Valerie Hobson and John Mills. Photo: Universal After making one of the greatest romantic films of all time, Brief Encounter (1945), director David Lean moved on to what would become…

The Odessa File 

In 1963, German reporter Peter Miller (Jon Voight) becomes involved in the search for a brutal concentration camp commander, Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), who disappeared after World War II with help…

Brief Encounter: Politely Passionate

Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Photo: Eagle-Lion The legendary film critic Pauline Kael didn’t seem to care much for this film. Acknowledging it as a “celebrated tearjerker”, she also called…