The sixth Bond movie saw a temporary change of leading man, with Sean Connery (the one true Bond) departing, and odd-Bond-out George Lazenby making his…
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Stuck for a musical vehicle for the fast-rising Doris Day, Warners took the Booth Tarkington ‘Penrod’ stories that had been filmed before and (making the…
In 1964, nuclear war wipes out all of humanity in the northern hemisphere. One American nuclear submarine – the USS Sawfish – was submerged at the…
Reprising the formula already familiar from his army comedy The Square Peg (1958), Norman Wisdom’s alter ego Norman Pitkin is pitted against flamboyant villains and authority figures.…
The first time the TV series On The Buses toppled Coronation Street from the top of the TV ratings was a clear indication that it would inevitably make its…
Weak-kneed and fumbling GI Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye) impersonates a one-eyed English general in 1944 and becomes the victim of a Nazi assassination plot. Ernie…
Two London con artists – a conniving little Cockney (Alfred Lynch) and an amiable, brawny gypsy (a pre-Bond Sean Connery) – enlist in the RAF,…
“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it”.…
Eddie Pedak (French actor Alain Delon in his first Hollywood film) has served 18 months in San Quentin for armed robbery and is now trying…
It’s a bitter irony that such a funny film should also be so sad. For, if there were any doubts before, this last comedy of…
It is 1920 and a band of adolescent Jewish thieves roam New York City’s Lower East Side. The years pass and, thanks to Prohibition, the…
Henry Fonda makes a rare excursion into villainy in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In The West. The man who became a Western film icon…
Told in a bold, unflinching manner, director Lee Tamahori’s award-winning drama grips and fascinates as it lifts the lid on ghetto Maori life in New…
In 1951, Alfred Hitchcock made a superb film called Strangers on a Train. It had a screenplay by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia…
Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is a drifter and petty criminal who pretends to be mentally ill in order to get out of work duty…
Francis Ford Coppola originally conceived One from the Heart as an antidote to the enormous cost, pressures and production setbacks of Apocalypse Now (1979). Coppola,…
The little man who scored such a success in his first film, Trouble In Store (1953), was back again to cheer us all up. This time, Norman…
Back to the beginnings of time went Hammer Films, with vast monsters roaming the earth and stone age man fighting for his primitive existence. A…
This sequel to Salt and Pepper (1968) has middle-aged swingers Charles Salt (Sammy Davis Jr) and Christopher Pepper (Peter Lawford) falling on financial hard times with their…
Youngsters who like their prehistoric monsters to rampage around theme parks aren’t going to be particularly impressed by this offering from Disney, in which the…
