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News in Colour: Royal Ascot

Date released

20 Jun 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2037A

NoS ID

027427

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Ascot (Colour). DESCRIPTION: Some may regard it as an anachronism, but in an age of increasing uniformity why shouldn’t the dressing up routine of Royal Ascot be just as popular...

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Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1971 Film)

aka: Addio, Fratello Crudele

Director

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

Producer

Silvio Clementelli

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Based on the Jacobean tragedy by John Ford, tells of an unappy love affair between a brother and his sister, set in the 16th century.

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Upstream (1927 Film)

aka: Footlight Glamour

Director

John Ford

Feature film. A comedic melodrama telling the story of a love triangle between a vaudeville knife-thrower, his target girl and a hammy Shakespearean actor.

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Glenn Ford at the Cognac Film Festival (1988)

Genre

Press conference

Actor Glenn Ford answers questions from journalists(?) at the Cognac Film Festival. Topics include contemporary American cinema; sex versus eroticism; his favourite and most respected directors, especially...

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If....

Date

20 May 2014, 16:42

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

If.... 2014. GB. Blu-ray (Eureka / Mastes of Cinema); DVD (Paramount Home Cinema). 107 minutes + extras. £15.99 About the reviewer: Michael Open was Director of the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast from...

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December 7th (2012)

Director

John Ford; Gregg Toland

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £12.99

John Ford and Greg Toland’s docudrama about the December 7th 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbour was made at the behest of the American military, and then censored by the War Department for being too...

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Dreaming the Quiet Man

Director

Se Merry Doyle

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (92 minutes), £14.99

A documentary exploring the legacy of John Ford’s film The QUIET MAN. An array of Hollywood names, including directors Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich, along with Gabriel Byrne and Maureen O’Hara,...

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Grapes of Wrath, The (1940 Film)

Director

John Ford

Producer

Darryl F Zanuck

Subject

Literature; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £15.99

Feature film based on the novel by John Steinbeck. An impoverished dustbowl family’s struggle to reach the orchards of California, and the exploitation which awaits them.

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Iron Horse, The (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 min), £19.99

John Ford’s 50th film and his most famous of the silent era. Combines a conventional tale of double-dealing, vengeance and romance with a poetic sense of history, and an epic theme - unitinga nation by...

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Not Shakespeare (2015 Television)

Series

Artsnight

Director

Georgina Leslie

Producer

John Mullen (2); Georgina Leslie

Arts series. Writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr champions some Renaissance dramatists whose stories have been neglected because they worked at the same time as William Shakespeare. Marr believes our...

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