Bagdad Cafe was the first American film made by German director Percy Adlon. Casting his German star, the flamboyantly overweight Marianne Sägebrecht to lead an otherwise…
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Every character in this complex and extraordinary made-for-television comedy film is an easily-recognisable stereotype – seen through the eyes of the main characters, Joe Marriot…
Rugged prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) is double-crossed and abandoned in the desert without water by his two partners, but an entrepreneurial opportunity arises when…
Widow Josie Minick (Doris Day) takes up sheep farming in order to support herself and her son. Her new neighbours are dismayed by her activities.…
Champion black prizefighter Cal Jefferson (James Iglehart) is on honeymoon in Hong Kong with his new wife Arlene (Shirley Washington) when he rescues a mute…
Not everyone can stomach Woody Allen films but, fan or not, you’re sure to get a few laughs out of this one. Actor-writer-producer-director Allen plays…
Seven of the prisoners at Gaunstone Gaol have been encouraged to take up Trad jazz by a music-mad governor and have formed a jazz band…
Fred Astaire and Michael Kidd choreographed this gem of a Hollywood musical produced by MGM. The Band Wagon began as a revue which opened in 1931…
Having fought on opposing sides during the American Civil War, brothers Mace (James Stewart) and Dee (Dean Martin) Bishop join forces as part of an…
Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty stand out in this film version of Mark Harris’ novel about Bruce Pearson (De Niro), a clumsy, oafish, second-rate…
Career thief Walter Upjohn Ballantine (George C. Scott) is stuck in a prison work farm until his excitable accomplice, Al G. Karp (Sorrell Booke) visits…
Once upon a time, comic book films were not always expected to be sophisticated works of classy entertainment. Busting out with a tawdry introduction of…
The year is 40,000 AD. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity – and taking her clothes off to what sounds like Herb Alpert and his Tijuana…
The surface appeal of The Barefoot Contessa is obvious: Ava Gardner at her most glamorous as the rags-to-riches star Maria Vargas alongside Humphrey Bogart at his most…
In Disney’s The Barefoot Executive, a chimpanzee becomes head of programming at a TV station (insert your own joke here). A young Kurt Russell, already a…
Neil Simon’s sometimes hilarious Broadway play about a newlywed couple coping with life in New York City holds up nicely on the big screen with…
An autobiographical account of Henry Chinaski – a booze-soaked poet-writer (Charles Bukowski wrote the screenplay based on his experiences) with Mickey Rourke in the title…
The Bargee follows the misadventures of womanising barge worker Hemel Pike (Harry H. Corbett) – “the Casanova of the canals” – making his living travelling…
This 1957 Ealing Studios comedy revolved around William Horatio Ambrose (Alec Guinness), who desperately wanted to live up to his proud family naval tradition. But Ambrose…
When the often hysterical architecture student Eva Arnold (Elke Sommer) and American Peter Kleist (Antonio Cantafora) read a parchment in a huge old castle in Austria,…