Category Archives: Rediscovered classic

There’s nothing like a film release to bump a film to the top of my ‘must-read’ list, the classic 1938 novel changes era to the mods and rockers riots in the 60s in the 2011 adaptation. Continue reading →

I finally decided to find out what all the fuss was about. Although it’s first release was in Italy in 1928 and the book wasn’t allowed to be freely published until 1960 in the UK copies were secretly circulating. Penguin books were even taken to court under the obscene publications act of 1959! Continue reading →