That dry, wry humor that flavors such British films as Kind Hearts and Coronets is again apparent to a degree in The Assassination Bureau Limited. In less skillful hands its premise of a 1906 ...
An undated photo of British actor Dirk Bogarde, star of the 1961 film, ‘Victim.’ Victim, the 1961 film, directed by Basil Dearden, was the first British film to deal with homosexuality. For portraying ...
Director Basil Dearden seems, here, to have temporarily misplaced the vigorous insight that has earned him some top credits. Best that can be said of Straw [from the novel by Catherine Arley] is that ...
The San Diego Museum of Art may not be the first place you think of for a movie, but it has an ongoing film series and Thursday night's film, "All Night Long," mixes jazz and Shakespeare. Basil ...
Yet the Basil Dearden suspenser probably played an equally important part in de-stigmatising homosexuality by highlighting the ugliness of homophobia. Dirk Bogarde is needle-sharp as Melville Farr, a ...
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