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Waterloo Bridge (1931)

By Alexander Inglis

Movie archaeologists who might have believed the long suppressed 1931 version of Universal’s Waterloo Bridge was lost were delighted when it was unearthed in the 1970s; it is now, happily, available to the rest of us as part of TCM Archive’s Forbidden Hollywood releases of pre-code talkies (1929-July 1934). Without question, the film is a… »

The Old Dark House (1932)

By Alexander Inglis

If ever an early talkie deserved the opening line narration “It was a dark and stormy night …”, this is it. This rain-soaked early horror, freshly churned out by the director and studio which gave us Frankenstein, features five travellers who stumble upon the Femm estate in Wales during a horrendous rain storm. The residents,… »