Basil Dearden’s lively tongue-in-cheek 1965 British comedy spy thriller film Masquerade is based on Victor Canning’s novel Castle Minerva, and stars Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Charles Gray, Bill Fraser, Marisa Mell, and Michel Piccoli. Director […]
Producer/ director Michael Carreras’s cheery, lively, good-natured 1963 British pop musical What a Crazy World stars Joe Brown, Susan Maughan and Marty Wilde, with Freddie and the Dreamers. This bright but daft musical has its […]
Director Peter Cattaneo’s 2019 feel-good British comedy drama Military Wives is an excellent, crowd-pleasing entertainment, with a strong central idea and a well chosen cast on good form. It stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, […]
Ib Melchior’s 1964 film The Time Travelers is a thoughtful and often exciting sci-fi movie, in which Dr Erik von Steiner (Preston Foster), Dr Steve Connors (Philip Carey) and Carol White (Merry Anders) travel ahead […]
The 1987 film The Second Victory stars Anthony Andrews, who coasts smoothly through this professionally crafted, old-fashioned intrigue thriller as Major Hanlon, a British Army officer conducting a manhunt after his sergeant is killed by […]
Roy Ward Baker’s lively 1949 British black and white newspaper world crime thriller film Paper Orchid stars likeable Hugh Williams and Hy Hazell, along with Sid James and Garry Marsh. Roy Ward Baker’s lively 1949 […]
The 1991 American film Paradise is a tasteful, warm-hearted remake of the French success Le Grand Chemin (1987), this time starring then real-life married couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Writer/ director Mary Agnes Donoghue’s […]