The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead - A Classic Album Under Review
2008 · 120m · Music · Documentary
Showing for the first time how it all came together and what made it so great, the film is all at once hugely enlightening, downright entertaining, and remains the only visual document of this momentous happening ever released.
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