In a small town in Germany which is relatively untouched by the war despite the fact that Allied troops have broken into Germany in the closing days of April 1945, a group of boys in the little school wait to be called up for service.
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Banged out in a few days in California as the 50s drew to a close, this low-budget AIP comedy horror film from Roger Corman has…
Captain Albert Ebbs (John Gregson) is promoted after 22 years as a staid and efficient skipper on grimy tramp steamers and given command of the…
The third in the Carry On series, Carry on Teacher was a coy, cosy look at the world of mortar-boards and chalk dust set in…
Set in the era of Soho strip clubs, smoky coffee bars and rock ‘n’ roll, a man obsessed with the women who appear on the…
Danger Within is set in an Italian Prisoner of War camp housing British, French and other Allied captives during the summer of 1943. The British…
In 1777, during the struggle for independence by the American colonists, a unit of the British Army is headed by General Burgoyne (Laurence Olivier), who…
Shot in just seven days in April 1959, The Diary of a High School Bride was made by American International Pictures for a drive-in audience…
How is it possible to misplace a destroyer? That’s the question Lieutenant John Paul Steckler VII (Jerry Lewis) has to answer when he is hauled…
Two small military units – one British and one German – have apparently been forgotten by their respective High Commands on a remote uninhabited island…
Victor Mature is Ben Lassiter, a sturdy, dependable hero in this westward journey undertaken by several but finished by few. He’s an ex-Confederate officer travelling…
Norman Truscott (Wisdom) is a meek and kindly trouser-presser at a cleaning shop with a nice voice who is duped into doing the crooning for…
The cast from the earlier Hot Rod Gang (1958) returned in this AIP production featuring a monster, a haunted house and a talking hot rod. After…
Sixteen-year-old Frances Lawrence (pert blonde, blue-eyed screen newcomer Sandra Dee at her most innocent) is the film’s title character, christened ‘Gidget’ by her friends at…
The Girl Most Likely is a musical comedy about a girl named Dodie (Jane Powell) who receives – and accepts – three proposals of marriage.…
Wealthy hot rod addict Chip Gardner (Harold Lloyd Jr.) is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, and Silver Morgan (Mamie Van Doren)…
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…
Dr Joe Frail (Gary Cooper in his last western film), trying to forget an unhappy past, drifts from town to town until in the mid-1870s…
After 25 years of making short comedies for Columbia Pictures, the Three Stooges graduated to their first full-length feature film in Have Rocket, Will Travel.…
Renowned German scientist Professor Dr Abel (Michel Simon) invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies…