(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article may contain images and voices of people who have died.) Phillip Grenville Mann isn’t a writer particularly well
Stephen Vagg
In March 1971, Bryan Forbes resigned as head of production of EMI Films. Nat Cohen [pictured far left] had been making movies for EMI through his own unit, Anglo-EMI, so
In early 1969, Associated British was taken over by a bigger entertainment conglomerate EMI, run by Bernard Delfont. Since Associated British half-owned Cohen’s company, this meant that Cohen was now
The career of Nat Cohen has been given long-overdue re-appraisal in recent years, via several academic articles as well as Paul Moody’s book on EMI Films. Cohen was never that
Two episodes of Australian Playhouse, the non-famous anthology series that ran from 1966 to 1967. The Voice was written by Kenneth Hayles, an Englishman who lived for a number of
The life and films of an iconic actress from the 1950s and 1960s. We were originally planning to do a piece on Janet Munro as part of the movie star
This series looks at movies made in Australia, which wrecked perfectly good stories in the process. Writers in Australian theatre/film/television of the 1950s and 1960s faced two main enemies (a)
Like most cinephiles of my generation, I was first exposed to George Peppard via The A Team, must-watch-TV for any ten-year-old boy. I have to admit, me and my friends
The recent series on beach party movies got us thinking about the movie stardom of Frankie Avalon. Because for a while there, in the mid-1960s, at the height of beach
Can a film be jinxed? A crew member died on set making AIP’s Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966); the studio covered up the blood stain and moved on, and
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