Director Marcel Varnel’s 1942 Much Too Shy stars naughty but nice (and much too shy) George Formby as amateur artist George Andy, the hopeless handyman in trouble when his art-study-course portraits of ladies are tampered […]
‘She was abused and violated. It will never happen again!’ A timid, mute Manhattan woman called Thana (Zoë Lund) gets raped twice after coming home from work, then dresses suggestively, cruises the streets and wreaks […]
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh again brings William Shakespeare to mainstream audiences with his 1993 hit adaptation of hit Much Ado About Nothing. It is a very jovial romp through Shakespeare’s attractive lightweight romance, filmed with much […]
Director Jean Negulesco’s 1950 British film The Mudlark stars the American actress Irene Dunne, who was a shock choice as Queen Victoria, but she is fine, emoting away in her cotton-wool cheeks and rubber cladding. […]
Writer-director Renato Castellani’s 1954 UK/Italy film Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] stars Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall as William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare’s play is adapted for the screen by Castellani. After a shaky […]
Director Carol Reed’s 1963 film The Running Man is a sedate and therefore undervalued Sixties thriller about English pilot scoundrel Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) faking his own death in a glider crash to defraud the […]
Director John Guillermin’s 1952 black and white film Miss Robin Hood stars Richard Hearne as girls’ story writer Henry Wrigley, who teams up with a dizzy fan, an old lady called Miss Honey (Margaret Rutherford), […]
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