Director William Dieterle’s 1937 romantic melodrama film was an old-fashioned antique even when it was new. Its mix of adventure plus romance in the British Empire is a soap-opera-style time-filler set in an imperial African […]
Director Frederick de Cordova’s good-natured 1947 Warner Bros movie features Cecil Kellaway as millionaire Turner, an old guy on his deathbed, leaves a million dollars to a starstruck young woman, Jane Barker (Joyce Reynolds), who […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1944 spirit-raising (i e wartime propaganda) romantic adventure drama Uncertain Glory stars Errol Flynn as Jean Picard, a womanising French criminal who flees the guillotine during an air raid in World War Two […]
Director Herbert Wise’s pleasing 1973 British feature film version of the popular and much-loved TV comedy series created by Jack Rosenthal in 1970 (running till 1971) reunites the delightful stars Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox […]
Happily, Leonard Rossiter gleefully re-creates his classic TV performance as the miserly, mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby in director Joe McGrath’s pleasant and amusing 1980 cinema movie version of the hit British TV […]
Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s funny 1979 film prison comedy Porridge [Doing Time] is a most entertaining, above-par transfer of the much-loved Seventies BBC TV sitcom about the inmates and warders of HM Slade Prison in […]
Christmas is a time for peace on earth, goodwill to mankind, going to the movies – and of course having ghastly office parties. Well, that’s that sorted out and settled then! If you haven’t got […]
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