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  1. Glass Key, The (1942)

    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £9.99

    An adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel about rival gangsters during Prohibition which later served as the uncredited basis for the Coen brothers’ ‘Miller’s Crossing’, this 1942 film stars Alan...

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  2. Boys from Syracuse, The (1940 Film)

    Director
    A. Edward Sutherland
    Producer
    Jules Levey
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film version of the Broadway musical by George Abbott, Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, itself a free adaptation of The Comedy of Errors. "A musical employing Shakespeare’s plot and Ephesus...

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  3. Tower of London (1939 Film)

    Director
    Rowland L. Lee

    Feature film. Richard III interpreted as an historical costume drama/horror film with much emphasis on the torture methods used by Mord (a Buckingham equivalent). There are no direct references to Shakespeare.

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  4. Top of the Town (1937 Film)

    Director
    Ralph Murphy; Walter Lang
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor found (2007).

    Musical set in Manhattan. An heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located on the top of a 100-storey skyscraper. Extravagantly produced and a huge flop. Includes a scene in a nightclub in...

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  5. Frankenstein (1931)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

    Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.

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