Miner Jim Gay (Wilfred Pickles in his motion picture debut) owns a racing greyhound called Raving Beauty. Sometimes, it seems to his wife, Maggie (Megs…
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This full-length colour animated film was produced for Warner Bros by UPA, the American cartoon makers who for years were renowned for their stylish one-reelers,…
The brilliant but insane Dr Frankenberry (Robert Andrews) has a stupid plus-size platinum-blonde daughter called Buffy (comic singer Brenda Bergman), who has a nude sex…
Jerry Lewis’s frantic, jerk-around comedy style here got its most suitable director, who saw him simply as a cartoon with no connection to real life.…
This film version of Nelson DeMille’s 1992 best-selling mystery novel is a lurid mess – a Southern gumbo simmering in Gothic cliché. John Travolta plays…
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry failed to strike similar gold with this contrived tale involving Alex Cord as macho moustachioed NASA scientist Dylan Hunt who…
The storyline of this classic British comedy film follows two friendly yet intensely competitive couples competing in the famous annual London-to-Brighton vintage car rally. Buttoned-up lawyer…
On his first burglary, young locksmith Johnny Ryan (Spencer Teakle) joins old-timer Sam (Arthur Hewlett) on a raid on a jeweller’s shop and grabs £60,000…
In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Marilyn Monroe mannerisms all combine in a very sexy explosion of music, comedy, and romance unequalled in the rest of her career. She…
Geordie MacTaggart (played by Paul Young as a child and Bill Travers as an adult) spends his Highland childhood – most of it in the…
Millions of TV viewers came to love George and Mildred Roper and their life together at 46 Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Mildred was the go-ahead…
The wonderful Lynn Redgrave stars as the plump, rather dumpy and hopelessly un-hip Georgina (a role, bizarrely enough, first earmarked for her glamorous and svelte…
If The Italian Job (1969) celebrated Britain’s 1960s supremacy in everything from football (soccer to you lot on the left-hand side of the Atlantic) to small-car design…
A long-time employee of the legendary music venue Fillmore East in New York, director Allan Arkush was the right man for this rock-flavoured satire about…
This adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel explores the murky world of Hollywood’s links to organised crime. Made in the wake of Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty…
A pretty young student called Terry (former ‘Miss America 1959’ Mary Ann Mobley) gets into trouble when she’s exposed as the songwriter of some disreputable…
Carter “Doc” McCoy (Steve McQueen) is about as tough as they come. A criminal as unscrupulous as he is intelligent, Doc enters into an illegal…
Producer and star John Daniels played the lead in several Blaxploitation potboilers in the mid-70s – including The Black Godfather and The Candy Tangerine Man (1975).…
Made on the back of Easy Rider (1969) and the anti-Vietnam War campaign, this was one of several “campus movies” that enabled studio executives to look…
Gettysburg begins in June 1863 with a voice-over, map, and images describing the progress of the (Confederate) Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E.…