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6.3K10Octopussy
Roger Moore had dragged the Bond franchise well into `pleasingly silly’ by this time which is good in a sense but on...
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3.8K
Odd Couple, The
Jack Lemmon’s toilet roll will maker shacks uneasily up with Walter Matthau’s brown and green sandwich maker in this Neil Simon mannerfest...
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2.7K
Odd Man Out
Wounded IRA gang leader James Mason ducks in and out of the streets of Belfast one night, meeting drunken painter Robert Newton,...
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2.7K
Ode to Billy Joe
Yes, this really is “based on the Bobbie Gentry song of the same name”. Robby ‘Rent-a-Cop’ Benson jumps off said Tallahatchie bridge....
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5.1K8
Odessa File, The
Jon Voight gets involved with this week’s contingent of naughty Nazis as he tracks the secret ex-SS organisation headed by Maximillian ‘Black...
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3.5K1
Oh, Mr. Porter!
One of Gainsborough’s best – and that is saying something indeed – this is really a reworking of Arnold ‘Godfrey’ Ridley’s The...
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4.0K
OK Connery
For sheer cheek, this takes the biscuit. Cheapo Italian filmmakers cast Sean Connery’s younger, non-thespian brother Neil as Dr Neil Connery: bearded,...
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2.5K
Old Gringo
Gregory Peck *is* Ambrose Bierce! Yep, this massively expensive western has the author of the much-quoted Devil’s Dictionary and the much-ripped-off Incident...
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2.5K
Omega Man, The
Clearly having learnt nothing from his recent sojourn to that terrible Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston once more fins himself representing...
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2.7K
Omen, The
“When the Jews return to Zion…”
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5.4K13
On the Buses
It always amazes us that this programme could still be responsible for so many cultural reference points, since the show itself was...
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2.7K
Once Upon a Time in America
This Really Great Big Film comes from Sergio Leone and stars James ‘you would be in hysterics’ Woods and Robert De Niro...
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2.7K
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Despite the presence of Peter Ustinov, this isn’t the madcap story of the theft of a spitfire skeleton containing a secret microfilm,...
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2.9K
Ooh… You Are Awful
Dick Emery does all his dodgy characters in this plotless (he has to look at some women’s arses, is the extent of...
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2.8K1
Orca
Salty old fisherman Richard ‘lower teeth’ Harris accidentally kills the titular zebra-skinned cetacean’s mate and unborn child, causing it to go on...
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7.1K3
Our Man Flint
With astonishing rapidity, not to mention alarming ferocity, Hollywood took the release of Dr No as the starting pistol to a silly...
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2.7K
Our Mother’s House
Did Ian McEwan rip this old horror off for The Cement Garden? Libel laws prevent us from saying ‘Well yes of course...
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2.6K
Out of the Clouds
One of the late-period Ealing drama series to cover a particular location or institution ( e.g. The Square Ring – boxing, Pool...
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3.0K1
Outback
By the ’70s, of course, Australia was the number one destination for British ex-pats. saw Brit teacher Donald Pleasence stranded in The...
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3.3K
Outland
High Noon in space…apparently. Actually this is really rather good and features Sean ‘Canary’ Connery in all his balding, paunchy glory. With...
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2.6K
Outlaw Blues
Late ’70s much of a muchness wherein ex-con Peter Fonda shacks up with Susan ‘Kate and Allie’ Saint James to rescue his...
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2.5K
Overlanders, The
This Australian Ealing drama is a nifty regular in these waters, detailing the mammoth movement of half a million cows out of...
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2.5K
Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939) was always ripe for a rock remake. In 1978 the all-black The Wiz flopped into cinemas, and...
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