Made one year after Costa-Gavras  Z,” which won the Best Foreign Language Oscar, “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” is a terrific Italian political thriller, which won the same award in that category in 1970.

Expectedly propagandistic, the film's real distinction is its wonderful cast: Laurence Olivier (in a splashy cameo as a fur trapper), Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, and best of all Eric Portman as a heartless, relentless Nazi. Glynis Johns is one of the few women in the ensemble with a real part. In later years, “The Invaders” reverted to its original British title, “49th Parallel.”

Neil Jordan's “Interview With a Vampire,” arguably the most eagerly anticipated film of the year, is an artistic disappointment, and not just for miscasting the appealing movie star Tom Cruise in a role that is way beyond his limited range as an actor.

In this conventional and inspirational biopic, Eleanor Parker plays the famous Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. William Ludwig and Sonya Levien shared an Oscar Award for their adaptation of Marjorie Lawrence’s autobiography. Parker’s singing, ranging from Madame Butterfly to MGM’s own Over the Rainbow, were dubbed by Eileen Farrell, future soprano of the Metropolitan Opera. Farrell […]

Gregory Ratoff directed this David O. Selznick’s production, the American remake of the Swedish film, starring Ingrid Bergman, who recreates her role. Based on the original screenplay by Molander and Gosta Stevens, the well-acted melodrama concerns a love affair played out between an older and established concert violinist, Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard), and a young […]