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HENRY V (1944). While I have a very hard time dealing with William Shakespeare vernacular, this Laurence Olivier Star/Direct/Produce film is a remarkable achievement. It begins and ends in the Globe, playing to an audience before going out onto sets and locations. Great technicolor and the final battle is almost GAME OF THRONES in scope, if not carnage-WW2 was still blazing at the time.
I enjoyed this and had a lot of fun spotting the Actors like Leslie Banks (THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME), Ernest Thisiger (BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE GHOUL, A CHRISTMAS CAROL), Niall Macginnis (JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, NIGHT OF THE DEMON, NEVER TAKE CANDY FROM A STRANGER), Felix Aylmer (THE MUMMY, NEVER TAKE CANDY FROMA STRANGER), Freda Jackson (BRIDES OF DRACULA, VALLEY OF GWANGI) and Valentine Dyall (HORROR HOTEL). ****
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