The air is thick with screen stars and 27 restored Spitfires flown by genuine WWII veterans defending Britain from the rampant Luftwaffe in the dark…
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This truly spectacular war epic is almost on a par with Patton (1970), though its original widescreen impact is sorely diminished when shown on TV. Based…
Despite the title, this is a POW picture rather than a war picture. The actual naval battle is merely tacked on to the final 5…
Ricky Fuller (Ricky Shayne) is a mod guitar player in Liverpool and the son of wealthy businessman Robert Fuller (Joachim Fuchsberger). Ricky’s girlfriend is killed…
In the autumn of 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee – the pride of the German Navy – commands the Atlantic, preying on…
The dignified Edinburgh House of MacPherson, famous for its hand-woven tweeds, is invaded by Mrs Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings), a slick American business efficiency expert.…
This alien invasion scenario has a stray planet on a collision course with the Earth. At the last minute, it takes orbit around our world…
Captain Russ Edwards (Sterling Hayden), the commander of the K-59 Helicopter Element in Korea, dispatches former fighter pilot Lieutenant Pete Stacey (Arthur Franz) to rescue…
A world after the 21st-century oil wars – with energy at a premium, a global fuel shortage and the Earth’s food and resources running out,…
This robust musical version of Henry Fielding’s bawdy 18th-century classic starred Nicky Henson in the title role as a good-natured young man who is adopted…
Dave Martin (David Hemmings) and his beat band – The Smart Alecs – have a new place to play when his family inherits a seaside…
“Those surf ridin’, skin divin’, sky jumpin’, drag racin’, beach bashin’ boys and their bikini beauties . . . in a blast of a beach…
“The Beach Party gang goes sky diving” This 1965 addition to the beach movie franchise from American International Pictures (AIP) has singing star Sugar Kane…
“I’ve got to know if Rock Sanders has a cock!” Elaine Street (Brenda Fogarty) is the editor of a scandal sheet called Blue and is…
“It’s what happens when 10,000 kids meet on 5,000 Beach Blankets!” An anthropology professor named Robert Sutwell (Robert Cummings) and his secretary Marianne (Dorothy Malone)…
This World War II story centres on a handful of US Marines on a mission in the jungle of a South Pacific island. American forces…
The usual Alistair MacLean combination of exciting action, rugged far-flung locations, foolish dialogue and positive performances – the exception here being Vanessa Redgrave, whose “Norwegian”…
Near the Arctic Circle, an atomic bomb is detonated. This fearsome experiment disturbs the sleep of a giant Rhedosaurus encased in ice for more than…
Soldiers in a rural part of Lancashire (England) are being killed by an unidentified beast – the authorities suspect a leopard – that is only…
Wealthy playboy, philanthropist and big game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) and his wife Caroline (Marlene Clark) invite an eclectic group of people to their…