Sam Kydd – TV Cream

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TV: C is for...

Churchill’s People

"OI, CHURCHILL! Can you save me money on my quality drama output?"

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Films: C is for...

Carry On Admiral

Sounds like a bona fide Carry On film, but this is a George ‘Our Girl Friday’ Minter production, under the aegis of...

2.4K

Films: T is for...

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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Films: S is for...

Steptoe and Son Ride Again

Forget all that film school rubbish about The Godfather: Part II being the best example of a sequel better than its predecessor...

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Films: S is for...

Sink the Bismarck!

HMP Slade playing fields, Mr Barraclough is waving his flag around giving – then not giving – offside: Mr Treadaway: What’s he...

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Films: H is for...

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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Films: E is for...

Eye of the Needle

A Ken ‘no, you’re meant to hold the cork with a tea towel and twist the bottle… oh, give it here’ Follett...

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Films: D is for...

Detective, The

Alec Guinness’s incarnation of Father Brown, Chesterton’s ecclesiastical eavesdropper. Here the clerical copper’s on the trail of master art thief Peter Finch....

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Carlton-Browne of the FO

Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...

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Captain Horatio Hornblower

Gregory Peck here as Forrester’s schoolboy-amusingly-named naval hero coping manfully with the twin encumbrances of Napoleon’s fleet on his back and Richard...

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