Ten years after Scarface (1983), Pacino and director Brian De Palma reunited here for another crime-doesn’t-pay drama. Carlito Brigante is a Puerto Rican assassin and drug…
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The legendarily beautiful and troubled African-American actress Dorothy Dandridge (pictured), like so many sex symbols, was a martyr to her beauty in life, while in…
This movie broke sexual taboos in the frankness with which it tackled its study of two college roommates and their sexual obsessions through two decades. The…
Two cars are drag racing in the American countryside when one of them – containing three young women – crashes off the side of a…
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s brilliant stage musical came to the big screen in 1956 with Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae in the lead roles. Pretty, innocent…
George Peppard plays hard-driven playboy industrialist Jonas Cord in Paramount’s highest-grossing film of 1964. When Jonas inherits his father’s industrial empire, he expands it by…
Adapted from Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie made telling use of split-screen techniques to follow cause and effect as it monitored the startling telekinetic powers…
The 24th Carry On film, Carry On Abroad (or ‘What a package’) concerns saucy carry-ons in the Spanish resort of Elsbels. Vic Flange (Sid James) plans…
Inspired by the 1947 stage play Off the Record by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, Carry On Admiral – which, despite its title and director,…
Or “Where there’s a pill there’s a way”, or “The bowels are ringing”. . . Carry On Again, Doctor was a quick resurrection of the popularity…
The Carry On team throw caution to the wind and presents an hour and a half of good, clean lavatorial humour. This was the first sign…
This is a modern reworking of Carry On Camping (1968), with all the usual stereotypes in place and a more near-the-knuckle treatment of sex and nudity. Carry…
Carry On Cabby began life as a script that Paul Rothwell had worked on at the request of Peter Rogers, Call Me A Cab, following the premise…
Carry On Camping has no plot to speak of – it is simply a collection of familiar eccentrics going on a camping holiday. But when Sid…
The film opens with a title card reading; “Whilst the characters and events in this story are based on actual characters and events, certain liberties…
Lisbon 1492: Christopher Columbus (Jim Dale) sets sail with his brother Bart (Peter Richardson) and a motley crew, made up mostly of refugees from the…
The Carry On team’s homage to Dixon of Dock Green hits the ground running, while Williams, Hawtrey, and Connor are happily settled into their familiar characterisations. The film’s basic…
‘I tried to make peace with the Sioux once – couldn’t trust ‘em. One minute, it was peace on, the next, peace off.’ Writer Talbot…
The first Carry On movie to be filmed in colour and the last written by Norman Hudis, Carry On Cruising is arguably the most charming in…
This is a wonderfully bawdy celebration of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin, wallowing further in near-the-knuckle gags and sexually aware situations, perfectly suited for this historical…