Universal Pictures by Julian Woolford, University of Surrey The journey from successful stage musical to big-screen adaptation is rarely truly successful. From director Joshua Logan’s use of colored filters in the 1950s adaptation of South Pacific (which looks as if something is wrong) to Tom Hooper’s recent mega-mess movie of Cats, there are so many … Continued
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