We recall being offered the chance, on a friend’s birthday way back, to go and see a film at the ABC in...
Yet another Michael Caine caper film, directed by Bryan Forbes, in which yer man cracks a safe full of diamonds in a...
Nothing to do with Dinenage asking Reg from Havant if he wants to ‘stick’ on 18, this is a caper comedy in...
We must admit, we find this piece of Cumbernauld schtick increasingly difficult to take. A film can be just too whimsical for...
A prime late ’60s chunk of sciffy crunk, with a combined US-Italian-Japanese production team conjuring up a green midget with flailing tentacles,...
This old clunker does admittedly feature a violent ape and Bela Lugosi as a bloodless butler, but the main stars, playing a...
The poor man’s Jesus Christ Superstar is utterly ridiculous in every way – a Jesus who looks more like Jeremy Irons in...
Impoverished fourth MGM Marx outing, with a plot nicked wholesale off Laurel and Hardy’s Way Out West and a sad air of...
Big boring American horror with the “prestige” likes of Fred Astaire and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. brought in to shore up a creaky...
Mob comedy supposedly based on the life of a real mafia boss, though to what extent we’ve no idea as it quickly...
A couple of foreign productions helped the ailing Rank Film Productions expand their range in the ’70s, and hedge their bets with...
Betrothed Victorian maid Julie Christie and dandy Alan Bates conduct a clandestine affair via titular messenger Dominic Guard, who grows up to...
A film of two halves, this Walter Matthau middle-aged libido-com. On the one hand, it’s dated, lairy cobblers of the first water,...
Gregory Peck leads explosive non-swimmer David Niven, Greek Anthonys Quinn and Quayle, Stanley ‘Helldrivers’ Baker, James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice, Richard ‘recipe’...
Sort of the first (Paul Bartel’s cheapo, rubbish Cannonball came out the same year) and certainly the best (don’t cf The Cannonball...
The Fleischer brothers (Out of the Inkwell, Betty Boop, old school muttering Popeye) abandon their usual black and white rubbery fun for...
Salt-of-Earth youngster Dickie Attenborough is packed off to a posh school with class conflict ensuing, as well as the first ever on-screen...
George Peppard searches for the identity of a disfigured and memory-free espionage suspect, in a plot very similar to Who?, which came...
A murderous Alastair Sim takes centre stage in this thriller, but we’ve got our eye on the supporting cast – George ‘Hegarty...
Here’s a rarity to relish! Sidney “St Trinian’s, St Trinian’s, our battle-cry” Gilliat directs and co-scripts a bizarre comedy-mystery, as, in a...
William Goldman blamed the failure of his flying circus epic on the ‘unorthodox’ death of leading lady Susan Sarandon halfway through, but...
Bland slice of ’70s Transatlantic trash-glam. Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Quinn play a former first lady and a Mediterranean shipping magnate in...
Frankie Howerd takes his turn to look put-upon in charge of the usual ‘tearaways’. Not good, but better than the terrible ones...
Blake Edwards pits old partners Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis against each other in a Wacky Races/Monte Carlo or Bust-style international jalopy...
Love triangle with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum, included here as part of our ongoing Splitscreenwatch project – a four-way...
James Garner wins all the races from Mon-AR-co to Monza in John Frankenheimer’s virtually plotless excuse to show lots of ’60s racing...
Deep sea stop motion monster crock which used to suffer terribly in the ’80s when ITV interspersed it with the far superior...
This Spielberg adventure fantasy was always one of those “they wouldn’t let me into Terminator” second choices at the cinema for kids...
Henry’s disabled brother gets to watch the spaghetti sauce for the umpteenth time in Scorcese’s Italian Cooking In 146 Minutes. Oh, and...
We wonder how many films the two ginger twins who censor the news in this have appeared in either as, well, two...
The Dinky Doos Revue (yes, it’s that sort of an affair) are a travelling theatre troupe on hard times, until a meeting...
From Butchers’, a charmingly stiff and uncertain “you’ve got to heat the pot”-style early rock ‘n’ roller, with Terry Dene belting out...
Any film featuring Norman ‘Simon Simon’ Rossington and a fire engine is, as we know, great value. Here he’s one of a...
We suppose they think if they spell it with a ‘Y’ more people will come. The second ever concert, this, from 1971,...
Marianne Faithfull ditches Alain Delon, zips up a once-risqué leather jumpsuit and, er, rides aimlessly about continental Europe (and, more importantly, a...
“There NEVER was a woman like Gilda” Anyway, trouble and strife down South America way with Rita ‘Shawshank’ Hayworth as the eponymous...
Heidi – and that’s yer actual Heidi, up a mountain and all that – learns the true meanings of faith, hope and...
Just an ordinary run of the mill day for Chief Inspector George Gideon – Jack Hawkins, that is – encompassing four murders, two...
The word “sweeping” could have been invented for this generation-spanning Texan cattle ‘n’ oil saga, if it hadn’t already been coined to...
Ah, Tyburn Productions, runt of the Brit-horror litter. They gave us Legend of the Werewolf, and this rather nicely done “something in...
When he accepted the job of Head of Columbia Pictures David Puttnam, from the very start, was vocal in his dislike of...
Good but over-celebrated Ramis/Murray/Ackroyd/Moranis/Weaver/Hudson/Potts effects ‘n’ sarcasm sideshow. Watch for Casey Kasem while the Thompson Twins collect their royalties.
Handy Bendy Kingsley fronts up the first of today’s biiiiiig Attenborough numbers with the help of James Fox, John ‘go screw yourself’...
Top flight Peckinpah caper in which Steve McQueen robs a bank under the watchful eye of sheriff Ben ‘will play grizzled cowboy...
Concert films are, inevitably, pretty unrewarding spectacles. Iffy sound, endless crowd shots, migraine-inducing overuse of the zoom lens, and a sense of...
This has got to have the best soundtrack from any film ever made. Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane and...
The grimmest, bleakest, and most often misquoted Caine film of the lot gets a look-in for its peerless use of locations as...
Chuck ‘Tin Can Alley’ Connors brazenly dons the dubbin and Littleplum broken English to switch sides as the titular Apache. But never...
Top quality swinging social comment, as a floppy Lynn Redgrave stumbles about in awe of loose and louche flatmate Charlotte Rampling, lusts...
Always seems to do well in the “fondly remembered” stakes, does the TV version of G&M, which we reckon must be mainly...
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