Kind Hearts and Coronets: What’s a Few Murders?
Alec Guinness. Photo: Ealing Studios After playing Fagin in David Lean’s Oliver Twist (1948), a controversial role that required him to wear heavy makeup, including a prosthetic nose, Alec Guinness…
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…
Bride of Frankenstein: They Belong Dead
Elsa Lanchester and Colin Clive. Photo: Universal Perhaps the filmmakers felt that their original adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came up short. The 1931 film left out much of the…