Vincent Price plays Robert Toombes – a veteran horror actor famous for his long-running film role as Dr Death – a sinister horror villain who…
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Joe Giannone’s Madman was possibly the first knock-off of Friday the 13th (1980). It’s the final night of the season at a summer camp and…
After almost 30 years as king, George III has become increasingly eccentric, and is unpopular with his subjects, causing concern about his fitness to rule.…
The Maggie is a tiny old puffer boat based on the River Clyde that is nearly ready for the scrap heap. In a last-ditch effort…
Failing magician Charles “Corky” Withers (Anthony Hopkins) suddenly hits the big time as a ventriloquist with a vulgar but outrageously funny dummy called Fats. The…
Eccentric millionaire Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) knows that most folk will do anything for money and sets out to prove it with the help of…
For a time in the 1960s, Hollywood studios thought that all they had to do to tempt kids from the TV was to pack movies…
This hour-long made-for-television film starring The Beatles first aired on BBC1 on 26 December 1967. The public and critics attacked the movie the very next day,…
A forgotten British anthology film directed by Graham Stark including seven segments written by notable sitcom writers and comedians, with a host of familiar faces.…
The inhabitants of a small Mexican village hire seven gunmen to protect them from a group of hardened bandits who are ruining their lives. Director…
The third and final comedy vehicle for popular British television duo Morecambe and Wise presented Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise as two inept travelling toy…
Anybody who claims to know what Magnolia is about is lying. The beauty of Magnolia, though, is that it doesn’t have to mean anything. The half dozen storylines…
This sequel to Dirty Harry (1971) found San Francisco cop Inspector Harry Callahan – there is no explanation for why he’s got his job back after disobeying…
Following a brush with the law for reckless driving, the pampered lifestyle of rich and spoilt Beverly Hills girl Jessie Montgomery (Ally Sheedy) is transformed…
After making his name as a tough-talking young novelist in the late 50s, and then helping to pioneer what would come to be known as…
While on a trip to the British Museum as a boy, Charlie (Richard O’Sullivan, pictured below) falls in love with Wedgwood pottery and is fascinated…
Sid Gibson (Sid James) is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is some TV advertising. Unfortunately, he’s absolutely broke. Sid calls…
Retired Major Rayne (Terry Thomas), ex-con Lily (Billie Whitelaw), eccentric dowager Dame Beatrice (Athene Seyler) and disgruntled teacher of etiquette Nanette Parry (Hattie Jacques) are…
This charming Australian comedy is the story of Malcolm (Colin Friels) a young man with a genius for mechanical devices, but his shyness borders on…
Street hustler Malcolm Little converts to Islam while in prison, changes his name to Malcolm X and rises to fame as spokesman for the Nation…