The Man from UNCLE TV series began as a spoof of James Bond but took off with a life – albeit a mechanical one -…
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The second of a number of feature films spun off from the hit TV series The Man from UNCLE, this lazy effort comprises situations from previously…
The true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, a young Luftwaffe glamour boy and the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain who escaped…
Eric Sykes stars as Mr Arthur Groomkirby, an eccentric dreamer who recreates the Old Bailey in his living room at home. His son, Kirby (Jonathan…
In his sole directorial outing, Marlon Brando epitomises his unique style in the film’s opening scene. As he slowly relishes a banana, the camera dollies…
Jonah Levin (Paul Simon) is a faded folk-rock musician who was briefly famous with a single hit in the 1960s (hence the film’s title) and…
Billy Wilder’s madcap comedy takes place in a corporate, Cold War Berlin. James Cagney plays Mac, an American Coca-Cola executive holed up in the West…
This brilliant British Lion screen adaptation of Kinglsey Amis’ novel That Uncertain Feeling stars Peter Sellers as John Lewis, a frustrated and disenchanted librarian in the…
Charlie Tully (Dick Emery) and Reggie Peek (Ronald Fraser) are confidence tricksters who con a rich Italian family out of half a million pounds by…
Ken (Peter Fonda), Greg (John Phillip Law) and Art (Richard Lynch) have been friends since school days. They were at college together, on active service…
When diva Mara Cecova (a role originally intended for Vanessa Redgrave then rewritten to be shot largely from a Steadicam POV) literally breaks a leg,…
It’s 1944 and the S240 submarine – commanded by Captain Emmett Carey (Scott Brady) – has been searching the waters of the South Pacific for…
Sardonic but courageous Lieutenant Rulan Voss (Ron Foster) leads a small task force of GIs who parachute into the jungles of Burma behind Japanese lines…
Assigned to an all-women anti-aircraft ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) unit on the English coast, handsome Lt. Gordon Brown (Donald Sinden) keeps the fact that he…
Early in 1943, British aerial reconnaissance photographs identified the sites of Hitler’s long-threatened “new weapons” – V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets. The subsequent plan…
It must have seemed a good idea at the time: Cast Sean Connery’s younger brother, Neil, as himself in a spy spoof movie and surround…
The US submarine Sea Tiger is severely damaged in the first days of WWII, before its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman (Cary Grant,) has even…
There is a legend that if the barbary apes ever leave the Rock of Gibraltar, the fortress will be lost, and the Rock will leave…
A group of school children save old junk collector, Paddy (Sydney Bromley) from being accused of the theft of the “dolphin bell” from their school…
A wonderfully warm film presenting the flipside view to the Swinging Sixties dream as it fades into the Sour Seventies. A superb performance from Peter…
