Peter Ustinov – TV Cream

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There are few things on this blowsy Earth as good as an on-form Peter Ustinov film, and this computerised caper comedy's as...

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Spartacus

Peter Ustinov once testified that the making of Spartacus took so long that although his daughter Andrea had only just been born...

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Quo Vadis

As befits an MGM production put together under the powerful hands of old school director Mervyn Leroy, this is a big film...

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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Not one of the endless Charlie Chan features from the ’30s starring Warner Oland, worse luck (and there’s a clutch of former...

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Last Remake of Beau Geste, The

Apart from his Brooksfilms collaborations, Marty Feldman didn’t score very big with his big screen outings. Between the decidedly shaky The Adventures...

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Viva Max!

Peter Ustinov does a comedy Mexican general in this intentionally zany Alamo update with Harry ‘M*A*S*H’ Morgan and Kenneth “two coats, one...

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Tarka the Otter

‘Does snuff exist?’ ponders Channel Four, passim. Well, yes it does, it’s here, and it’s rated A. Screenwriter Gerald Durrell and director...

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Sundowners, The

The isolation felt by new arrivals in the wide open spaces of the New World was a major theme for the subsequent...

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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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Logan’s Run

Annual outing for the much-loved prog sci-fi panto. Michael York and Jenny Agutter escape from queasily rendered Radio 1-style age fascist society...

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Lady L

A Peter Ustinov directorial affair, with Sophia Loren stomping about Brideshead Castle as the ex-laundering countess torn between ice cool David Niven...

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