The 1977 British TV classic Abigail’s Party is a savagely funny BBC comedy drama devised and directed by Mike Leigh. This wicked attack on lower-middle-class manners is particularly memorable for Alison Steadman’s formidable portrayal of […]
Director Ray Enright’s 1945 RKO Radio Pictures black and white romantic drama China Sky, based on a novel by Pearl S Buck, is a commonplace love-triangle yarn that soon overplays its hand and abandons its […]
‘Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds. Their first movie together!’ Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 Technicolor RKO-Scope film Bundle of Joy is a musical reworking for Ginger Rogers’s 1939 comedy Bachelor Mother, with Debbie Reynolds playing the shop […]
Director James B Clark’s 1963 children’s movie Flipper is the Florida adventure that started the highly popular 1960s TV show (1964–1967) about a 12-year-old fishing boy called Sandy Ricks (played by the 15-year-old Luke Halpin) […]
‘There are some friends you know you will have for the rest of your life. You’re welded together by love, trust, respect or loss… or in our case, simple embarrassment.’ The 1992 British film Peter’s […]
Directed by Henry Hathaway’s 1935 fantasy romance drama Peter Ibbetson is based on the novel by George du Maurier and a stage version of 1917, the play by John Nathaniel Raphael, and stars Gary Cooper, […]
‘The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s efficient 1960 melodrama The Crowded Sky is a busy all-star disaster movie, which is quite fun as hokum. […]
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