Tag: Charles Laughton

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #67

    Those who about to die salute you With the introduction of cinemascope/widescreen in 1953 starting with The Robe, cinema saw a growing popularity of Biblical/historical epics throughout the 1950s and 1960s. One of the best, and, certainly one of the most discussed was Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film Spartacus. The film was inspired by the life…