‘Not so long ago, in a country quite far away… The Dish, Houston’s other problem.’ It is July 1969 and, while the world watches Neil Armstrong and the first Apollo landing on the Moon, the […]
Sultry Allison Hayes stars as Tonda Metz, the wife of tropical doctor Dr Carl Metz (John Wengraf), who sneaks off for voodoo dancing in her fetching sarong and matching tooth necklace and works up to […]
Co-writer/director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet silent movie classic recreates the successful sailors’ revolt against their officers aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in Odessa harbour in 1905 when faced with eating maggot-ridden food. Eisenstein’s dramatised […]
It’s all here – the Sixties, slapstick, songs, satire, sand, sun, sea, surf, and of course sex! What more can you ask for? Oh, subtlety and sophistication, I suppose. Director William Asher’s 1963 American International […]
Nicol Williamson is oddly cast as Sherlock Holmes, who is tricked by his brother Mycroft (Charles Gray) into travelling to Vienna to be treated by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) to recover from his cocaine addiction. Producer-director Herbert Ross’s 1976 […]
A Study in Terror was made in Britain in 1965 by the former Oscar-winning documentary maker turned feature director James Hill and stars John Neville and Donald Houston as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in […]
Christopher Plummer and James Mason ooze sheer smooth charisma as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who investigate Jack the Ripper’s grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes and uncover a web of corruption, in director Bob Clark’s […]
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