The Big Sleep
Our Double Bogie continues with The Big Sleep, adapted from the Raymond Chandler novel in which private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gets mixed up in the affairs of the […]
Tag Archives: 1946
The Stranger
Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) is an apparently normal history teacher-cum-clock enthusiast who is newly wedded to the lovely Mary (Loretta Young). Little does she know that her new hubby […]
Great Expectations
Pip’s life gets pepped after he pops into a graveyard in David Lean’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ penultimate novel. Watching it now, Pip’s story is less than revelatory and perhaps […]
A Matter of Life and Death
Squadron Leader Peter David Carter (David Niven) is a pilot in World War Two. When his plane is downed over the English Channel he shares his final moments with a […]
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