Sounds like a bona fide Carry On film, but this is a George ‘Our Girl Friday’ Minter production, under the aegis of...
It’s a Mancunian Film Corporation production! Yes, the sainted John E Blakeley takes the helm as Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warris make...
The working title of the hopefully long-aborted Carry On revival film with Brian Conley of course, but this exists as a short...
Oh, yes indeed. Directed and written by Surname of the Century competition winner Bruce Bairnsfather, who fought in both World Wars (witnessing...
Roger Moore had dragged the Bond franchise well into `pleasingly silly’ by this time which is good in a sense but on...
Not a film version of the old STV afternoon political boreathon but instead the glorious topical romp with an impeccably on-form Ian...
Floundering Victorian sci-fi comedy in which the effects of Les ‘Vampire Circus’ Bowie vie with Dennis Price’s weird northern accent, as Burl...
Will the migraine-inducing title sequence from Pablo ‘Bullitt’ Ferra merit an epilepsy warning? It bloody should. Still, make it past those intact,...
“Still no sign of land! How long is it?” “That’s a rather personal question!” Ah, the Hitchcock water tank chestnut returns for...
Sinden does Disney, as the irksome Sir Anthony Ross, after his estranged whaling son in a French-built pointy airship, but discovering a...
James ‘Shogun’ Clavell steps behind the camera for this swashbucksville epic tale of roistering thief-taker Jack Shepherd (that’s the character’s name, he’s...
Top Oz director Roger Donaldson warmed up for his US big break (Cocktail, of course) with this Pentagon thriller starring not only...
Supposedly cursed but really rather good early ’70s Hammer, with the bounteous Valerie ‘It Might as Well be String’ Leon to the...
Celluloid outing for 1970s US improv troupe The Ace Trucking Company, which was very much an acquired taste (although it presumably struck...
The cheap and cheerful George Hamilton vampire spoof, exactly midway between Young Frankenstein and Leslie Nielsen: Typecast and Lumping It in laughability...
Ken Russell makes a triumphant return to the silver screen with the usual raincoat-clad soft porn and neon shenanigans from that brief...
It’s the battle of the vaguely iffy Oriental films this afternoon, it seems, and if it came to a toss-up we’d plump...
Of the twenty-odd versions that have been made of this aristo-revenge chestnut, this is about the sixteenth, courtesy The Lord Thy Grade,...
Tap-dancing lawyer Robert Redford (doing his lovable simp thing) has his career stalled by partner Debra Winger (doing her emotional jaw-wobbling-from-side-to-side thing)...
Peter Ustinov once testified that the making of Spartacus took so long that although his daughter Andrea had only just been born...
Of a slightly different bent but still a genuinely massive picture, this adaptation of the smash hit musical farce is a truly...
As befits an MGM production put together under the powerful hands of old school director Mervyn Leroy, this is a big film...
The second outing for the lads is more of a straight out farce. Harold cripples their horse Hercules by driving his cart...
A rare successful sitcom spin-off produced under the aegis of the great Nat Cohen. Harold (Harry H Corbett) marries a girl recognised...
Still scripted by Speight but with Stubbs and Booth unaccountably replaced by Michael Angelis and Adrienne Posta, this second stab at getting...
The first big screen outing for Johnny Speight’s legendary bigot Alf Garnett played, as on television, by Warren Mitchell. All of the...
Long running smash hit ITV series The Army Game (1957) was so ubiquitous its film version only had to be called after...
Full-blown film version of Whack-O! (1956), which starred marvellously moustachioed Jimmy Edwards (massively bewhiskered as always to hide the plastic surgery he...
Starring real life husband and wife team Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, and their children Richard and Barbara Lyon, this is probably...
The middle classes stand up four square to Hitler blowing their curtains in. Meanwhile, hard put to it working class families the...
Peter Finch has a mid-life crisis because he works in American telly and it’s all rubbish. Another of those films we keep...
There’s really no denying it: this early (very early) Goons feature is bloody awful. Once you get past the excellent and very...
Sort of like Witness but with a better plot but less soul music, Humphrey Bogart is a priest who appears in a...
Here at TVC Towers we are absolute, industrial strength, bathmat-festooning suckers for hypnosis in films. Hence even this much-of-a-muchness intriguer with Jose...
‘What decade, friends, is this?’ Uptight businessman Jeff Daniels hooks up with a ‘wild’ good-time girl played by Tippi Hedren’s Bloody Daughter,...
It’s missing an exclamation mark, is the title of this film, along with a luxuriant Edwardian moustache on the upper lip of...
The fifth, Bogarde-less entry in the Thomas-Box franchise, with the distinct lack of Dirk somewhat offest by Joan Sims, Fenella Fielding, Alfie...
With Robin Askwith’s red-arsed Confessions ruling cinemas nationwide for no readily explained reason, sleaze kingpin Stanley Long got onto the cinematic equivalent...
This rotten sub-Confession is the unlikely product of an unholy alliance between Hazel ‘Crossroads’ Adair and Kent “grapple fans” Walton, in which...
Aka “The Happy Housewives,” for some reason. Not a ‘Confessions’, or even an ‘Adventures’, this odd piece of bawdy flotsam which takes...
A taut (and especially so around the budgetary purse-strings) little tale from Planet Films (the company which Mancunian Films turned into at...
You’ve got wonder what Anthony Perkins is doing in this. Live action Disney adventures really did feature some of the most extraordinary...
A sort-of sequel to caper flick extraordinaire The Hot Rock, directed by Hollywood choreographer Gower Champion, which sounds like an oddball appointment...
After accidentally losing 50 grand down the waste disposal, US mint employee Jim Hutton looks to make up the deficit by breaking...
High gloss comedy caper with a very British crew. Stanley Baker is the bank insider with the scheme, and louche, decadent but...
Yet another modish Hollywood comedy caper which employs a convoluted plot to escalate confusion. Hamburg-based bank security chief Warren Beatty observes various...
An acknowledged classic of the comedy caper genre, with Robert Redford assembling the requisite team of contrasting personalities (nutty mechanic, taciturn explosives...
This second John Cleese/Graham Chapman offering for David Frost’s Paradine Productions knocked its predecessor The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer’s satirical...
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...
More Niven Euro-comedy, in which the sainted David plays a Nobel-winning linguist whose neglected wife makes a giant nude sculpture of him...
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