The 1946 Technicolor musical film London Town, starring Sid Field and Petula Clark, is legendary as one of the biggest flops in British cinema. The 1946 Technicolor musical film London Town stars Sid Field, Greta […]
Director Otto Preminger’s 1955 American CinemaScope Warnercolor film The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell [One Man Mutiny] stars Gary Cooper, Rod Steiger, Ralph Bellamy and Charles Bickford, with Elizabeth Montgomery in her film debut. Rod Steiger steals the […]
Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1947 British drama film The Courtneys of Curzon Street [The Courtney Affair] stars the winning team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding, is one of the all-time most seen British films, with 15,900,000 cinema tickets […]
Director Andrew Marton’s 1965 American science-fiction doomsday disaster movie Crack in the World is based on a story by Jon Manchip White, and stars Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore and Alexander Knox. An attempt to harness the […]
Director Max Ophüls’s 1952 black and white French comedy-drama anthology film Le Plaisir [House of Pleasure] is his delightful adaptation of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant linked by the theme of pleasure. It […]
Director Gillies Mackinnon’s 1991 BBC TV Screen Two film The Grass Arena stars Mark Rylance, who gives a compelling performance in a gritty true-life story about a man whose hopes of a boxing career are […]
Director Gillies Mackinnon’s 1992 Irish film The Playboys stars Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright and Milo O’Shea. Police sergeant Brendan Hegarty (Finney) and travelling actor Tom (Quinn) fight for the hand of young unmarried mother Tara […]