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A bloated Richard Burton is in rare high spirits as vicious homosexual East End mob boss and protection racketeer Vic Dakin, whose sadism is offset…
Featuring one of several police characters Stanley Baker played in the late 50s/early 60s, Violent Playground fuses a crime story with a social-realist tale of…
One Friday in summer, three gunmen – Chapman (J. Carrol Naish), Dill (Lee Marvin) and Harper (Stephen McNally) – arrive in the small copper mining…
Handsome adventurer, navigator and statesman Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) gains an audience with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) because he wants ships to sail to…
Leslie Thomas’s first novel went straight to the top of the bestseller charts in 1966 and this movie version quickly tried to capitalise on its…
Set in Sweden in the 14th century, this Academy Award-winning Ingmar Bergman film – based on a medieval fable and originally titled Jungfrukällan – starts…
Pretty young Christine (Ann Michelle) and her younger sister Betty (future ‘Allo ‘Allo star Vicki Michelle in her acting debut) are hitchhiking to London when…
Kreton (Jerry Lewis) is an innocent and childlike alien from the planet X-47 who has always been fascinated by Earth. Eventually getting the opportunity to…
Bernard Wicki’s film of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play (also known as Time and Again) is a fascinating work. The tragi-comedy (as Dürrenmatt describes it) is related to…
Investigative television journalist Deborah Balin (Lee Grant) falls foul of a mentally deranged viewer and is brutally attacked in her home. Her friendly news show…
Real-life human crash test dummy Evel Knievel plays himself in a ridiculous PG-rated fictional adventure movie. Some drug dealers in Mexico try to kill Knievel…
The annual Grand Prix brings racing driver Lucky Jackson (Elvis Presley) to Las Vegas. To meet expenses and buy an engine, he has raised some…
France’s two top female stars, Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau play the two Marias – a singer and the bomb-flinging anarchist orphaned daughter of an…
Vixen (Erica Gavin) lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive bush pilot husband, Tom (Garth Pillsbury). While he’s away flying in tourists, she…
Shot in 16mm with no-frills sets and no-frills acting – the film only cost £11,500, mostly supplied by the Welsh Arts Council – Voice Over…
Frank Sinatra is splendidly cast as American Air Force Colonel Joseph L. Ryan, who is shot down and placed in an Italian POW camp, mainly…
In 1939, hundreds of Jewish refugees, many fresh from concentration camps, boarded the SS St Louis – flagship of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. The passengers were being…
Simultaneously feeling like a throwback to old B-movies while also being aggressively 1980s in style, Voyage of the Rock Aliens is the story of a group of…
With the earth threatened by a blazing radiation belt and the global temperature rising by two degrees each day, the inventor of a new nuclear…