Tom Hanks stars in Roger Spottiswoode’s sweet and amusing, sit-up-and-beg-to-love-me 1989 comedy as meticulous and fastidious cop Detective Scott Turner who investigates a brutal murder with the help of a big, messy mutt called Hooch (Beasley the dog), […]
Director William Beaudine’s 1937 British musical comedy stars George Formby as gormless gramophone record manufacturing company factory worker, technician Willie Piper. He hears pop star Rex Randall (Val Rosing) record a song but then accidentally breaks the master […]
For this British comedy crime film, Marcel Varnel directs George Formby in 1945 – and fairly well and amusingly too, especially for a comedy from Formby’s period of decline. Formby stars as entertainer George Trotter who […]
Co-writer/director Anthony Kimmins’s vintage 1939 Ealing studios comedy boasts a particularly exuberant star turn from George Formby as an ice-cream seller who tames a dangerous race-horse, is engaged to look after him and rides him […]
Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 showcase for ukulele-playing comic George Formby gets plenty of opportunities for jokes about knickers since he is cast as gormless George Pearson, an overseer in Dawson’s ladies’ underwear factory. There an […]
Writer-director Anthony Kimmins cashes in on the popular of ice-skating in 1938 and casts iconic ukulele player and movie star George Formby as a props man in an ice ballet company, ironically called George Bright. […]
British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer had his first big theatre hit in 1964 with The Royal Hunt of the Sun, a drama about the Spanish conquest of Peru that was staged by Britain’s newly founded National Theatre. […]
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