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While moonlighting as a mermaid on Catalina Island (to help her dad who has a glass-bottom boat tourist attraction), Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) is reeled…
Long before “Glasto” became all about high fences, giant video screens and corporate advertising, the events were far simpler – based around the summer solstice,…
When we first meet Glen (Steven Curry) and Randa (Shelley Plimpton) they are unselfconsciously naked, wandering through a lush green forest. Soon we realise that…
Psychiatrist Dr Alton (Timothy Farrell) narrates two stories: one of a transvestite called Glen (Edward D. Wood Jr under the pseudonym Daniel Davis) who secretly…
Director James Foley, working with a highly resonant screenplay by David Mamet, here brings a palpable cinematic tension to what could have become a dry,…
The Glenn Miller Story is one of the most touching and durable of all Hollywood musical biopics thanks to a convincing, three-dimensional performance by Jimmy Stewart…
Recognised as one of the best films to emerge from the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF), The Glitterball tells the story of a small, spherical, metallic alien (the ‘glitterball’…
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is wounded at the Battle of Antietam. As a result of his injuries, he…
There are flashes of genius in this 1965 Western, loosely based on events leading up to Custer’s Last Stand, and written for the screen by…
Millionaire lumber magnate D J Mulrooney (Walter Brennan) takes his visiting grandchildren Elizabeth (Karen Dotrice) and Rodney (Matthew Garber in his final film role) for…
In the made-for-TV movie landscape of the 70s, Go Ask Alice was IT. Jamie Smith-Jackson became the blueprint for teen girlhood after the ABC movie, one of the…
An above-average British comedy of its time, Go For A Take runs along the lines of a Norman Wisdom romp, giving the rubber-faced Reg Varney the opportunity…
Looking like a reworking of Soapbox Derby but with engines, Go Kart Go bears the unmistakable stamp of the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) trying to…
Set in 1964, in the early days of America’s involvement in Vietnam before massive combat troops were introduced, Major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) commands a…
Three ambitious but unsuccessful bank robbers – Bernard (Dave King), Alfie (Norman Rossington) and tame toff Harry (Daniel Massey) – buy an old fire engine…
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo (Dominic Guard) turns 13. He’s the guest of Marcus (Richard Gibson), a wealthy classmate, at a…
Although promoted in cinemas as a feature film, Go-Go Big Beat was actually made up of three shorter documentaries: Swinging UK, UK Swings Again and Mods and Rockers. The…
Jimmy Clanton stars as Johnny Melody, a poor orphan boy who makes it big through a talent search held by Alan Freed. The hardships, ironies and…
New Yorkers commit a series of motiveless murders – a sniper shoots a dozen people from a water tower; a father murders his entire family;…