A SUPERLATIVE anthology of hour-long suspenseful playlets about well-tailored middle class types methodically doing each other in, THRILLER was a textbook example...
By Hugh Whitemore. The governors of a public school find events taking a turn for the strange as they find themselves trapped...
A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...
PETER JACKSON-trouncing epic-length Tolkein adaptations
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...
A sort of ’60s proto-Wicker Man set-up, in which Franch grandee David Niven tries to save his failing vineyard with a little...
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...
Some embryonic George Cole in this very classy Ealing crime caper. The Putative Arfur and his bungling gang – including Bernard Bresslaw...
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 spy spoof genre's all about cinematic in-japery and self-indulgence, so how could it be complete without a visit from the Rat...
Hancock’s other film is a bit dark and not as much fun as The Rebel, we’re saying. As a seaside Punch and...
Here’s the first of the films, with David Niven as Sir Charles Phantom (the notorious pink Litton), Robert Wagner and John Le...
Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...
Old, good, Hammer adaptation of the Holmes fave, with Peter Cushing and Andre ‘Quatermass’ Morell as the detecting duo, Christopher Lee as...
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...
Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...
Le Mesurier - busted!
SCRATCHY VEHICLE for SID JAMES in post-Hancock hinterland
EARLY VEHICLE for CLIVE "GRANDAD" DUNN.
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