Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]
The 1953 British crime thriller film Murder at 3am stars Dennis Price as Inspector Peter Lawton of Scotland Yard investigating a series of baffling late-night murders of young women. ‘Kill-crazy prowler strikes again!’ Director Francis […]
The 1949 film It’s Not Cricket is an amusing and engaging minor British comedy starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as upper class twits who set up as bumbling private detectives and become mixed up […]
The 1938 British crime thriller Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror stars George Curzon as sleuth Sexton Blake who investigates a case of stolen stamps and a worldwide organisation of masked criminals. Director George King’s […]
Director David MacDonald’s 1937 black and white Victorian melodramas It’s Never Too Late to Mend stars Tod Slaughter, who extravagantly holds the attention as Squire John Meadows, the wicked Victorian lord of the manor (and […]
Director Henri Verneuil’s 1964 Greed in the Sun [Cent Mille Dollars au Soleil] is a fast-moving, proficient and enjoyable imported French road movie action thriller, involving a wild chase over the Saharan desert for a […]
Peter Cushing stars in The Flesh and the Fiends as medical doctor Robert Knox who buys human corpses for research from the real-life murderous Burke (George Rose) and Hare (Donald Pleasence) in 1828 Edinburgh. ‘A […]
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