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the lone fighter on the Capitol Hill (film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Frank Capra, 1939)

In 1939, when he made ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington‘, Frank Capra already had won three Academy Awards for best director. He would be nominated for the fourth time for directing this film, but he did not win. Not because … Continue reading

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the first adventure on screen of the invisible man (film: The Invisible Man – James Whale, 1933)

I don’t know how many adaptations for the big and small screens there are of H.G. Wells’ novel ‘The Invisible Man’. IMDB lists 60, but this list also includes ‘spin-offs’, that is, films with invisible heroes (or invisible heroines!) that … Continue reading

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