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Bigger Than Life (1956)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
1956 | Drama
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"I love this drama by Nicholas Ray, shot in CinemaScope. James Mason plays a professor and family man who has a troubled relationship with over-the-counter drugs. Bigger Than Life is a modern take on U.S. society in the 1950s that was unusual at a time when Hollywood and television were invested in depicting picture-perfect nuclear families. The film is both disturbing and fascinating."

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Words Without Music
Words Without Music
Philip Glass | 2016 | Biography
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"Read this memoir for a glimpse of a vanished country (ours, circa 1940s/1950s/1960s) that had an entirely different notion of education and the arts, i.e., a country that valued them and honored them and supported them with money and muscular institutions, which institutions, in turn, produced courageous and original national artists like Glass – who is also, turns out, a wonderfully gifted, honest, and amiable writer."

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Stan & Ollie (2018)
Stan & Ollie (2018)
2018 | Biography, Comedy, Drama
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"That's another fine mess you've got me into …"

Drama based around what would become Laurel and hardy's swan-song around the UK in the latter part of their year during the early 1950s, this is impressively cast, with John C Reilly getting the part of Oliver Hardy down pat.

Less successful, perhaps, is Steve Coogan's portrayal of Stan Laurel, maybe solely because the actor is more familiar to me?
  
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Lee (2222 KP) Nov 20, 2019

I really liked this movie but I did also find it difficult to get past Steve Coogan and me thinking of Alan Partridge

    Damn Yankees

    Damn Yankees

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    Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and...