Catholic Film Reviews

The challenge of adapting Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo for the screen, large or small, is of such a colossal magnitude that perhaps only Nostromo himself, the novel’s hero and “a man in a thousand” should have been charged with the task. The difficulties start with the logistics of the production. Set in a fictional South American [...]

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Directed by Ronald Neame
Starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness
Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
 
Albert Finney was only thirty-four years old when he took on the iconic mantle of Ebenezer Scrooge, the covetous old sinner, in this entertaining musical treatment of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic. Perhaps only a young man could have performed Scrooge with such [...]

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