Rattigan’s own dramatic study of Alexander the Great. Starring Sean Connery, Margaretta Scott. Directed by Karel Reisz. Originally broadcast June 12, 1961. Approx. 110 minutes.
A true curio has been thrown up by the recent BBC release of the The Terence Rattigan Collection DVD box-set (see here for an introduction). The earliest production to be included, the 1961 staging of Ad...
At the end of the 1950s, celebrated French documentarian Franois Reichenbach (F for Fake, Portrait: Orson Welles), whose lens captured the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Johnny Hallyday, spent eighteen months travelling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants and their pastimes. The result, America As Seen by a Frenchman, is a wide-eyed – perhaps ev...