The British 1956 noir espionage thriller film Cloak without Dagger [Operation Conspiracy] is a feeble, clichéd B-movie spy drama with romance and bantering in the concoction. Philip Friend and Mary Mackenzie star. Director Joseph Sterling’s […]
A band of ex-jailbirds get together to play jazz and commit crimes in the daft but mildly diverting 1962 musical crime film Band of Thieves starring clarinettist Acker Bilk. Director Peter Bezencenet’s 1962 British musical […]
The very entertaining 1943 British musical film Variety Jubilee depicts life in a London music hall from 1892 to World War Two, and is of great archival and nostalgia interest thanks to the precious glimpses […]
Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]
The popular 1944 British slapstick comedy film It’s in the Bag stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Cockney sisters Gert and Daisy, who try to recover a valuable lost dress. It is a believed lost […]
Elsie and Doris Waters try to run a restaurant and tackle a black marketeer (Joss Ambler) who is controlling the World War Two canned fruit business, in the cheerful 1942 British comedy film Gert and […]
Elsie Waters and Doris Waters are very amusing as cheery cockneys in the merry 1941 British comedy film Gert and Daisy’s Weekend. Gert and Daisy volunteer to escort a group of evacuee children from Blitz-torn […]
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