Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

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First-time director John Huston made a star of Humphrey Bogart with this early example of film noir, adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 detective novel. “Huston made from Falcon one of the classics ...

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