Anthony Bower

Anthony Bower, who was formerly a critic for The New Statesman in England, wrote a fortnightly letter from Hollywood which combined industry news and film reviews in the early 1940s before he was drafted into the Army.

Citizen Kane Citizen Kane

Frequently listed as the greatest film ever made, Orson Welles's masterpiece is also a thinly veiled biopic of William Randolph Hearst.

Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Bower

How Green Was My Valley How Green Was My Valley

This tale of the dissipation of a Welsh coal-mining family at the turn of the twentieth century was intended to be another Gone with the Wind.

Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Bower

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