John Le Mesurier – TV Cream

Thriller

A SUPERLATIVE anthology of hour-long suspenseful playlets about well-tailored middle class types methodically doing each other in, THRILLER was a textbook example...

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The Wednesday Play

Macready’s Gala

By Hugh Whitemore. The governors of a public school find events taking a turn for the strange as they find themselves trapped...

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Magic Christian, The

A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...

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Radio 4: The Programmes

Hobbit, The/Lord Of The Rings

PETER JACKSON-trouncing epic-length Tolkein adaptations

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Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

All-star, pan-European murder mystery comedy in which the whole of Interpol find themselves asking… ah, you’re ahead of us. Central to the...

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Eye of the Devil

A sort of ’60s proto-Wicker Man set-up, in which Franch grandee David Niven tries to save his failing vineyard with a little...

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Wrong Box, The

The definitive Sunday afternoon film, equally ideal for our patented ‘timing the Sunday roast by Sir Rich Ralphardson’s antics’ scheme, or a...

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Mouse on the Moon, The

Let’s face it, The Mouse That Roared isn’t that good. Apart from the opening scenes in Grand Fenwick and that general who...

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Too Many Crooks

Some embryonic George Cole in this very classy Ealing crime caper. The Putative Arfur and his bungling gang – including Bernard Bresslaw...

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School for Scoundrels

Ian Carmichael is the perpetual loser always trumped by arch-cad Terry-Thomas. That is until he takes instruction from Alistair Sim and learns...

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Salt And Pepper/One More Time

The spy spoof genre's all about cinematic in-japery and self-indulgence, so how could it be complete without a visit from the Rat...

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Punch and Judy Man, The

Hancock’s other film is a bit dark and not as much fun as The Rebel, we’re saying. As a seaside Punch and...

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Pink Panther, The

Here’s the first of the films, with David Niven as Sir Charles Phantom (the notorious pink Litton), Robert Wagner and John Le...

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Invasion Quartet

Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...

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Hound of the Baskervilles, The

Old, good, Hammer adaptation of the Holmes fave, with Peter Cushing and Andre ‘Quatermass’ Morell as the detecting duo, Christopher Lee as...

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Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu, The

Ropey, ‘troubled’, bizarre-in-the-worst-way last hurrah from Peter Sellers, who plays both Sax Rohmer’s titular mastermind (in latex make-up and corny accent) and...

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