Quackser Fortune (Gene Wilder) – humble, fiercely independent, but none-too-bright – doesn’t want to spend his life working in a factory like his dad (Seamus…
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Director Franc Roddam conceived Quadrophenia as “a film about young people who had some freedom but no responsibilities”. He need only have added “drugs, parkas and scooters”…
Thomas Crimmins (Patrick McGoohan) is a new guard at Mountjoy, an Irish prison. He is young and idealistic and determined to serve his country by…
This is the most popular of the movies taken from Nigel Kneale’s acclaimed BBC TV serial. During work on an extension to the London Underground…
Hammer’s version of Nigel Kneale’s television series Quatermass II is a potent, low-budget rollercoaster ride through government conspiracies and alien invasions, set against the chilling backdrop…
This Hammer version of the 1953 television show features a hunt in London for the survivor of a rocket ship who is being transmuted from…
A female film crew journeys to the jungle Island of Lazanga (“where they do the konga”) where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love…
“The year 1990, the problem of travelling to the moon has been solved for many years. Space stations have been built there and authorised personnel…
En route to Earth’s orbiting space station in 1985, a spaceship with four astronauts aboard and led by Captain Patterson (Eric Fleming) is attacked and…
In 1465, Scottish knight Quentin Durward (Robert Taylor with an accent which is all wrong for the part) travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess…
This $12 million Canadian/French co-production was the first film attempt to accurately portray the primaeval world at the very beginning of man’s existence. Quest For…
Based on a short story called Random Quest by John Wyndham, Quest for Love is part sci-fi and part love story. Brilliant young research physicist Colin Trafford (Tom Bell)…
In a frontier town called Redemption – ruled over by a rich, powerful and sadistic outlaw boss named John Herod (Gene Hackman, expanding on his…
Shy, young magazine writer Oliver Cromwell Cannon (Robert Morse) is sent by his publisher, Harvey T Sweigert (Howard St. John) – who is also the…
Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes one morning to realise he may be the only person left alive on Earth. Left to wander through a…
Carl Brandon (Forrest Tucker) is the Sheriff of Laramie, a town full of busybodies who are outraged that his longtime friend, rancher Ralph Carpenter (Jim…
In America, Sean Thornton (John Wayne) was a boxer, but he retired from this career after accidentally killing a man in the ring. Now he…
In the 1860s, Elite Wyoming sharpshooter Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) answers a newspaper advertisement from a wealthy Australian cattle rancher offering an astronomical sum of…
When two British agents are killed by a ruthless group of neo-Nazis in Berlin, Quiller, the department’s top agent, is sent to investigate. His mission…
Robert Redford’s Quiz Show unveils the insidious corruption at the heart of Twenty One, America’s favourite TV show in the 1950s, capturing the look and atmosphere of the…