Director Taylor Hackford’s 1982 military drama plus a dash of romance film An Officer and a Gentleman was one of Richard Gere’s biggest hits, propelling him to the front rank of stardom. He plays Zack […]
Director Peter Medak and brilliant screenwriter Philip Ridley bring the shocking tale of the life and crimes of the notorious, horrendous and now legendary real-life London East End gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray to the […]
It was weird about Britain in the 1930s. With his buck-toothed grin, cheeky chappie George Formby only just had to strum his ukelele and sing a saucy song and the heroines in his movies capitulated to […]
Norman Wisdom scored a huge hit in 1953 in his first star vehicle and probably his finest film, Trouble in Store, as a goofy storeroom clerk working in the stock room of a large London […]
Based on László Aladár’s play The Honest Finder, producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 sophisticated comedy Trouble in Paradise is a masterclass in just how to be both brilliantly clever and hilariously witty. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins […]
Producer Howard Hughes’s and director Lewis Milestone’s 1931 original first movie version of the enduring Charles MacArthur-Ben Hecht classic newspaper satire stage hit is a richly enjoyable and hugely rewarding sophisticated comedy entertainment. Its biting, sarcastic wit […]
Following Lewis Milestone’s 1931 classic The Front Page and the vintage 1940 Cary Grant version His Girl Friday, Billy Wilder’s delightful 1974 hit comedy The Front Page is the more than welcome third version of […]
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