Derided universally for being a misbegotten assault on all six senses, and with a large amount of good reason too, but what...
Rich teenage suicide freak seeks ageing, train carriage-dwelling concentration camp survivor for fun and frolics. Must like Cat Stevens. ‘I suppose you...
In which Dino DeLaurentiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis singularly fails to learn his lesson. It seems the big fella didn’t die at the end of the...
The definitive Sunday afternoon film, equally ideal for our patented ‘timing the Sunday roast by Sir Rich Ralphardson’s antics’ scheme, or a...
Let’s face it, The Mouse That Roared isn’t that good. Apart from the opening scenes in Grand Fenwick and that general who...
Dame Joan Collins as a nun and Richard ‘Medusa’ Burton as a biscuit are the leading lights for this Cinemascope show reel...
Ah, if ever there was a film of two halves… The quintessential ‘money’s run out’ potboiler from The Carp, which starts off...
Probably the best thing about this is that it’s narrated by Sir Burgess Meredith but there are a few things to enjoy...
A Jonathan Demme-penned bit of mildly condescending anti-commercialism about a worryingly young-looking Diane ‘Rumblefish’ Lane and pals (including Laura Dern) forming a...
The tell-tale director’s name in the title fingers this as one of those late-period bunches of self-indulgent cobblers, to wit two hours...
A weird sop to the RAF, directed by several big names including not only our very own patron saint Michael Powell but...
This high-hat Lion Films chamber piece is eighty minutes of Ealing-equalling brilliance, with Pe’er Se’ers’ masterfully sozzled Percy the projectionist upstaged only...
“I thought you could get pregnant while by walking along a canal path while someone on the other side played the harmonica!”...
Some embryonic George Cole in this very classy Ealing crime caper. The Putative Arfur and his bungling gang – including Bernard Bresslaw...
George C Scott is the token nice Nazi investigating the airship disaster sadly most famous for being accompanied by Herbert ‘Not Mandelson’s...
‘What *are* ants?’ King of the ant attack movies (until, of course, we get Ant Attack: the Movie, filmed entirely in one...
A late run-out for Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes, but a good’un nonetheless. A rich gentleman with a predilection for picking up young women...
Did Ian McEwan rip this old horror off for The Cement Garden? Libel laws prevent us from saying ‘Well yes of course...
Not one of the endless Charlie Chan features from the ’30s starring Warner Oland, worse luck (and there’s a clutch of former...
The evil communist Chinese (led by a yellowed-up Martin ‘Vogon captain’ Benson) dig tunnels all the way to the US, in which...
Not the Michael J Fox thing, but a genuine slab of intriguing ’60s oddness with James ‘Kenny Ames, you know, Ally Fraser’s...
Delightful load of complete bollocks not so much based on the hoary old Poe poem as crapped onto it from a great...
Hurray! The most implausible of all the Airport films, and by Jove, that’s saying something. Yes, even more unlikely than George Kennedy...
A late-period effort, from when they were churning out three a year, this is based on The Adventure of the Five Orange...
Late ’80s telly movie starring Garak off of Deep Space Nine as the George-related ivroy tinkler, which provides us with a slim...
This black and white college Satanism third-stringer is of interest more historically than horrifically, being the first de facto horror production from...
Robert Ryan and Bill Fraser, together at last! There’s a distinct Saturday night serial flavour about this we reckon, if only because...
The one with Jack Lemmon, clearly raising the money for that beach house in Malibu, though not a patch on Robert Wagner’s...
If Denis Norden walked in with a clipboard after each grisly death and announced that our next gorefest involves Peter Sellers in...
By our reckoning, there’s not a person alive today who dislikes this comedy, and we reckon that’s because it straddles the full...
A number of films in this chart are wartime propaganda jobs, knocked up in times of crisis for a quick sentimental fix,...
Margaret Rutherford gets another place in the list as the unintentional star of this great Ealing comedy. Pimlico turns out to be...
“Good ever-ning.” Ah, Alfie! The highbrow’s lowbrow, as hilariously studied by many a French film scholar, his every MacGuffin and mise-en-scene pulled...
“Never spoof horror,” those in the filmic know (and Steve Coogan’s accountant) always say, “it’s beyond parody already.” Interesting, then, that three...
That most benighted (and, indeed, be-knighted) of genres, fantasy may be all the rage for now but ’twas not always the way...
Forget all that film school rubbish about The Godfather: Part II being the best example of a sequel better than its predecessor...
Adapted from Ludovic Kennedy’s splendid book and featuring Sir Lord Richard of Attenborough’s best performance. The true story of a man –...
Top bank holiday standby favourite easily belittled by the po-faced but the quality still shines through and it’s impossible not to love...
No amount of brow-creasing analysis into the allegorical meaning of this film can mute its sheer unalloyed delight as Alec Guinness plays...
Ian Carmichael is the perpetual loser always trumped by arch-cad Terry-Thomas. That is until he takes instruction from Alistair Sim and learns...
The black and white Peter Sellers comedy is near enough a genre in itself, encapsulating as it does a certain time frame...
Woody’s masterclass in sticking little bits of angst-ridden stand-up routine together and doing little holes round the edges remains quite unlike any...
Probably more accurately described as a film version of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? this further proves that not all sitcoms...
We’ve never been Kubrick fans, it is fair to say. Quite what all the fuss is about is rather beyond us. Does...
Directed by Jacques Tourneur with input from Ken ‘too many monitors’ Adam, this might have a none-too-great lead in Dana ‘confirmed alcoholic’...
One of Gainsborough’s best – and that is saying something indeed – this is really a reworking of Arnold ‘Godfrey’ Ridley’s The...
It may be frowned upon by devotees of the original, brilliantly claustrophobic ten-bob BBC productions of Nigel Kneale’s phone book-monickered prof, but...
This is how children’s fantasy should be – genuinely fantastic, avoiding (or, where possible, upturning) all the sword and sorcery cliches, and...
It is almost forgotten now what a massive star Jack Hawkins was. Perhaps the only British film star worthy of the term...
A fantastic (ie well written, brilliantly made, and surprisingly level-headed) piece of wartime propaganda (which we always thought was courtesy The Archers,...
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