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As the Tony-winning stage version hits London, Luhrmann reveals how he reinvented the screen musical – with a little help from David Bowie

Sixty years ago, this daring film set new standards for special effects, star-studded casts and seriously dangerous stunt-work

How a reformed street thug who 'looked like a rock quarry that someone dynamited' became 1970s cinema's most bankable – and feared – star

The comics legend was responsible for many of the studio’s greatest creations. But were his best ideas stolen by Stan the Man?

Burt Kennedy’s 1971 film, plagued by fighting on-set, promoted its star as a feminist heroine while trading shamelessly on her sex appeal

Robert Arkins managed Roddy Doyle’s fictional band on screen. He recalls the unusual shoot, including casting buskers who didn't own a phone

Can’t tell your stillsuit from your sand worms? Fear not – this is everything you need to know about Frank Herbert’s epic, on screen and off

As David Hare points out, screen romances between old men and young women are the norm. But in 2003, The Mother tried something different

Tough truckers lock horns in 1957's Hell Drivers – with Sean Connery, Sid James and William Hartnell among the killer supporting cast

The maritime epic went to great lengths to bring the Napoleonic Wars to life with gory, sick-making accuracy. Now it's setting sail again