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The gathering storm of dissent towards French President (General) Charles de Gaulle’s increasingly authoritarian government exploded in May 1968, in Paris particularly, as trade unions joined forces with the student

The sixth and final chapter in our series on the 1950s producing career of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. It focuses on the production of The Restless and the Damned,

Things went from bad to worse for Australia’s leading film producers of the 1950s, as they made the South Seas melodrama, The Stowaway. As mentioned in Part Three of this

… terrible twists, flat archetypes, and uninspired horror imagery.

… a palatable theatrical drama that goes down easy – as long as you’re willing to embrace it as the soap opera it was meant to be.

… a powerful human drama …

Part three in our series of the 1950s films of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. Previous articles in this series have discussed the emergence of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty

Sweetly tender and yet perfectly absurd…

… doesn’t truly reinvent the wheel, but it has a cosiness that picks you up and makes you hot chocolate on a cold day.

The actor/director turns to crime with his latest film, Beating Hearts. When Beating Hearts premiered in the Cannes competition last year, Gilles Lellouche, the film’s director, also one of France’s