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Subgenre Sampler
Final Test, The (1953)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph… - Gentle comedy of values has a famed cricketer making his way to the middle for one last innings. Meanwhile is son is torn between seeing dad bat one…
Summer with Monika (1952)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson - Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned, aka The Forgotten Ones) (1950)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
- Ground–breaking masterwork from dir. Luis Bunuel's Meixcan period, set among slum children in Mexico City, whose harsh circumstances and…
Boys in Brown, The (1949)- Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde… - Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
Les Enfants Terribles (The Strange Ones) (1948)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Edouard Dermithe, Nicole Stephane - A poetic drama–fantasy from the pen of Jean Cocteau (who also directed several scenes), that centres round the narcissistic,…
Brighton Rock (1947)- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell - One of the coolest British crime flicks sees Richard Attenborough give an attention–grabbing portrayal of a delinquent gang leader who wants…
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon - Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at the Victorian Boys public school of Rugby is given a generous, populist treatment. New boy Lydon finds…
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)- Dir. George B. Seitz
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland… - Mickey Rooney stars in this early teenage rom–com as a ruddy–faced youth who becomes entangled with three different girls (Garland,…
Assassin of Youth (1937)- Dir. Elmer Clifton
Feat. Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner - Marijuana scare–movie from the 30s is an above–par exercise in hilarious establishment uptightness, following the sorry fate of several…
Marihuana (1936)- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Harlene Wood - Perhaps second only to REEFER MADNESS in demonstrating the perils of dope with laughably straight–faced paranoia, this sees some unsuspecting…
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