"OI, CHURCHILL! Can you save me money on my quality drama output?"
Sounds like a bona fide Carry On film, but this is a George ‘Our Girl Friday’ Minter production, under the aegis of...
Some embryonic George Cole in this very classy Ealing crime caper. The Putative Arfur and his bungling gang – including Bernard Bresslaw...
Forget all that film school rubbish about The Godfather: Part II being the best example of a sequel better than its predecessor...
HMP Slade playing fields, Mr Barraclough is waving his flag around giving – then not giving – offside: Mr Treadaway: What’s he...
Old, good, Hammer adaptation of the Holmes fave, with Peter Cushing and Andre ‘Quatermass’ Morell as the detecting duo, Christopher Lee as...
A Ken ‘no, you’re meant to hold the cork with a tea towel and twist the bottle… oh, give it here’ Follett...
Alec Guinness’s incarnation of Father Brown, Chesterton’s ecclesiastical eavesdropper. Here the clerical copper’s on the trail of master art thief Peter Finch....
Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...
Gregory Peck here as Forrester’s schoolboy-amusingly-named naval hero coping manfully with the twin encumbrances of Napoleon’s fleet on his back and Richard...
Various old Ealing themes (Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts) are tied up in this late-period offering, with an unseaworthy Alec Guinness turning...
Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray – the Leo and Kate of British films, albeit better spoken – star alongside Jack Hawkins in...
By Dominic Behan. Working class protestant life in Ulster circa 1920, during the formation of Home Rule. With Sam Kydd and Harry...
BIZARRO VARIATION on the perennial children's serial theme of "kids help residents of a stately home to stop it being pulled down",...
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