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Bookmark this pageChristopher Columbus (1949)
Director: David MacDonald
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Gainsborough's flailing attempts to add 'class' and international prestige to their more interestingly low-key 'domestic' output resulted in this expensively mounted dodo, elegantly consigned to the scrapheap of film history by contemporary critic Richard Winnington with the withering opinion that it 'contrives with something like genius neither to inform, excite, entertain, titillate or engage the eye'.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: David MacDonald
Producer: A Frank Bundy
Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L Sullivan, Linden Travers, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond, James Robertson Justice full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 104 mins
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