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Jun 3, 2013 · For decades, Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) was known as one of Britain’s greatest silent films but barely seen. A story of love and betrayal set around “the Tube”, it was restored by the British Film Institute’s National Archive and re-released this January to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Metropolitan Railway station opening at Baker Street.
Directed by Anthony Asquith • 1952 • United Kingdom. Starring Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, Dame Edith Evans. Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the ...
Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a "proper lady" in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. This Academy Award–winning inspiration for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady was directed by Anthony Asquith and star Howard, edited by David ...
Underground: Directed by Anthony Asquith. With Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring. A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s.
Apr 10, 2017 · Short Takes —. Apr 10, 2017. Share. F or too long languishing in Hitchcock’s burly shadow, Anthony Asquith was a charming maverick who emerged from one of Britain’s most patrician families—his father, the Earl of Oxford, had been Prime Minister, and his mother, Margot Asquith, was a celebrated socialite and aspiring writer.
Oct 22, 2019 · Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Norah Baring await direction on the set of A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929).. Who exactly was Anthony Asquith? A British cinema pioneer, a reluctant aristocrat, a Hitchcock imitator, a repressed homosexual – Asquith has been subjected to all of these nondescript labels and more by various commentators, and yet today he remains a shadowy figure within the annals of ...
W. The Way to the Stars. We Dive at Dawn. While the Sun Shines. The Winslow Boy (1948 film) The Woman in Question.
