Tag: Reginald Owen

Blu-ray Review: Of Human Bondage (1934)

The first of three Hollywood adaptations of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, the film served to launch Bette Davis to stardom. Davis had already made twenty-two films, all of them largely forgettable, when the role of cruel and manipulative

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Blu-ray Review: Mrs. Miniver

Based on the fictional British housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs. Miniver was one of the first war movies to take viewers off the battlefield and into homes of people trying to

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