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The final defense

On the evening of 30 October 1938, the night before Halloween, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre broadcast a version of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds. Gallup Polls taken … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 18 March, 2014 · 3 Comments

Favourite American Cinema

This list combines a number of accepted cinema classics with quite a few films of the 30s and 40s I feel are under-appreciated: this was, it is generally admitted, the … Continue reading

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Friday, 24 July, 2009 · Leave a comment
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