Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]
Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1955 British comedy stars Jack Buchanan as a stockbroker whose London home is taken over by a Johnnie Ray-style American emotional pop singer, crooner Bobby Denver (Jerry Wayne), hideously mixing tears […]
In a clash of the literary titans, Pinteresque meets Kafkaesque to disappointingly little avail in The Trial (1993). But, nevertheless, this is a respectable Harold Pinter-scripted version of the Franz Kafka novel by director David […]
‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ The robust 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller The Long Haul pairs Victor Mature and Diana Dors. ‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British […]
Director Ken Annakin’s enjoyable 1955 British Technicolor comedy Value for Money is based on a novel by Derrick Boothroyd and stars John Gregson as Chayley Broadbent, a blunt English Northerner who inherits rag-trade wealth and goes to London […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s intriguing, delightfully frivolous 1944 British comedy is about a group of drop-outs who found The White Elephant Club above a London Soho restaurant, run by Nina, a beautiful young White Russian émigrée (Margaret […]
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