Posts tagged classic
Table Talk: Wuthering Heights (1939)
Table Talk: Wuthering Heights (1939)

Anton and Aren debate whether William Wyler’s 1939 version of Wuthering Heights is the definitive adaptation of the book.

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RoundtablesAnton BergstromTable Talk, Roundtable, Wuthering Heights, William Wyler, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, Emily Brontë, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Hugh Williams, adaptation, Alfred Newman, Greg Tolland, Emerald Fennell, 1930s, moors, Yorkshire, ghost story, frame narrative, Frankenstein, Samuel Goldwyn, classic, classical HollywoodComment
Review: The Great Escape (1963)
Review: The Great Escape (1963)

The Great Escape is a hugely entertaining landmark in the prison camp and action team genres.

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(Re)Viewing the Canon, ReviewsAnton BergstromThe Great Escape, John Sturges, James Clavell, W. R. Burnett, Steven McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, WWII, Second World War, prison, prison camp, prisoners of war, war movie, action movie, mission, team, prison camp movie, escape, New Hollywood, classical Hollywood, classic, ensemble castComment