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It seems that Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace («Война и миръ», Voyna i mir) novel is like the holy grail of every director who respects himself. It has been adapted for film, TV, opera, radio. iMDb senarai 9 War and Peace adaptations including 2 silent films. The novel was first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of the world literature. It is considered Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).

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"BLANCHE FURY" (1948) Review

I suspect that many peminat-peminat of costume dramas would be fascinated to know about the series of period dramas released sejak the British film industry during the post-World War II era. A good number of those films were released sejak a British film studio known as Gainsborough Pictures. But not all of them were released through this particular studio. Some were released through other studios atau production companies . . . like the 1948 period drama, "BLANCHE FURY".

Based upon the 1939 novel written sejak Marjorie Bowen (under the pseudonym of Joseph Stearling), "BLANCHE FURY" told...
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"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" (1934) Review

I have seen only two versions of Alexandre Dumas père's 1845 novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo" in my past - the 1975 Televisyen version with Richard Chamberlain and the 2002 Disney film with James Cavielzel. While Membaca a good number of artikel-artikel about the movie versions of the novel, I came across numerous praises for the 1934 adaptation that starred Robert Donat. And since I happened to like Dumas' story so much, I decided to see how much I would like this older version.

Set between the last months of the Napoleonic Wars and the 1830s, "THE COUNT...
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