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"Rosemary's Baby" (1968) movie. Roman Polanski directs Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, & Ruth Gordon in screen adaptation of Ira Levin's occult thriller

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By David L. Roll Seventy years ago this month, Americans came to know Casablanca as more than a steamy city on the northwest coast of Africa. On January 23, 1943, the film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, a tale of doomed love and taking the moral high ground, was released to packed movie houses. The next day, a Sunday, President Franklin Roosevelt ended two weeks of secret World War II meetings in Casablanca with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

In which G.M. Norton follows Jack Hawkins on a classic crime caper. I do love my British films from the 1950s and 60s. One of my particular favourites is The League of Gentlemen (not to be confused with the comedy show of the same name). Released in 1960, it has a strong cast made up of Jack Hawkins, who first appears coming out of a manhole, dressed in a dinner suit. Very James Bond (of course, this film pre-dates Dr No by a couple of years). Hawkins plays the main character, a retired…

Niagara, Henry Hathaway, 1953