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The Adventures of Quentin Durward **** (1955, Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, Ernest Thesiger, Alec Clunes, Marius Goring, Wilfrid Hyde White, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3655
Director Richard Thorpe 1955 British movie is a spirited, pacy, good-looking 15th-century action caper, in which Robert Taylor swashes a spirited buckle as Sir Walter Scott’s noble hero, Scottish knight Quentin Durward. Sent to France to […]
Quartet **** (1948, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Susan Shaw, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3180
In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]
The Vampire Lovers *** (1970, Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Madeline Smith, Kate O’Mara, Dawn Addams, Pippa Steel, George Cole, Douglas Wilmer) – Classic Movie Review 3,155
Hammer Films’ 1970 erotic chiller The Vampire Lovers stars Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla Karnstein, a 1794 German Lesbian vampire who ingratiates herself into the home of General von Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) and sinks her fangs […]
The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery ** (1966, George Cole, Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney) – Classic Movie Review 2798
The 1966 fourth episode of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s broad farcical St Trinian’s comedies, based on the cartoons of Ronald Searle, is unfortunately a rather weary effort. Alas there is neither Alastair Sim nor Joyce […]
The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s *** (1960, Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Thorley Walters, Dennis Price, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2797
Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s less entertaining 1961 number three in the comedy film franchise brings back the hellish schoolgirls from Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, who now torch their school and are recruited for an Arab’s harem. It […]
The Happiest Days of Your Life ***** (1950, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Edward Rigby, Guy Middleton, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 2793
Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s 1950 British school-days farcical comedy is super vintage fun. John Dighton and Launder’s screenplay, adapted from John Dighton’s stage play, is all about the antagonism and chaos caused when a British government department […]
Blue Murder at St Trinian’s **** (1957, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries, Sabrina, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 2789
Alastair Sim returns as St Trinian’s headmistress Miss Millicent Frinton, though alas appears in only two scenes, put out of action tied up in the school belfry, so the English gym-slipped schoolgirls can head off for […]