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Best Bond Scenes: The Roger Moore era part 2: the 1980s

Following James Bond’s out of this world experience in the financially successful (665 million, adjusted for inflation) if artistically vapid Moonraker, the series’ sole producer, Albert Broccoli, thought it best to venture in a different direction, one that would feel slightly more grounded, all the while still playing on the strengths of his star: cool …

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‘Letter From An Unknown Woman’ illustrates the futility of childhood romantic fantasies

Letter From An Unknown Woman Directed by Max Ophüls Starring Louis Jordan and Joan Fontaine USA, 86 min – 1948. “Have you ever shuffled faces like cards, hoping to find one that lies somewhere, just over the edge of your memory?”  In 1900s Vienna, a former concert pianist and notorious womanizer, Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan) …

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