Cannes has traditionally opened with various eminences publicly hymning the glories of cinema, occasionally sounding a note of social responsibility—but without distressing the gowns-and-glamour ...

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Quintessential fairbanks swashbuckling abounds in this Raoul Walsh–directed adaptation of the Arabian Nights stories, in which Fairbanks’s crafty but charismatic (and remarkably agile) thief ...

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