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The 50 films directed by Terence Fisher

  The underrated British film director Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) directed movies from 1948 to 1974, and was best known for his work for Hammer Films, directing 29 films for […]

Apr, 09

Where’s Jack? *** (1969, Tommy Steele, Stanley Baker, Alan Badel, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9951

Director James Clavell’s 1969 film Where’s Jack? provides a serious role for Tommy Steele (fresh from success in Half a Sixpence and Finian’s Rainbow) as Jack Sheppard, the celebrated notorious 18th-century British highwayman wanted by the […]

Jun, 23

Films directed or written by Ingmar Bergman.

Swedish director, writer and producer Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was one of a handful of the most accomplished and influential all-time great film-makers. He directed more than 60 films […]

Jun, 17

The 12 Miss Marple novels and Joan Hickson films: ‘I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple.’

The 12 Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels and Joan Hickson film versions. Mrs Christie wrote to her in the 1940s: ‘I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple.’ The 12 Agatha Christie […]

Apr, 12

The Charlie Chan movies – Classic Movies

The Charlie Chan movies are: The House Without a Key (1926) (considered lost) is the first onscreen appearance of Charlie Chan with George Kuwa, The Chinese Parrot (1927) with Japanese actor Sōjin Kamiyama as Chan, Behind That […]

Nov, 11

The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878

Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]

Sep, 03

The Hawaiians *** (1970, Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Alec McCowen, Mako) – Classic Movie Review 8455

Director Tom Gries’s 1970 adventure film The Hawaiians [Master of the Islands] is the continuing history of James Michener’s huge novel Hawaii, as conjured up by the best minds of Hollywood, with Charlton Heston, as […]

May, 10

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