Director Thomas Carr’s 1957 film Dino stars Sal Mineo, who does his juvenile delinquent turn again (and very well too) in a solid, rather touching little drama based on script-writer Reginald Rose’s own 1956 TV […]
It is SOS Pacific when those still alive after an aircraft smashes on to a Pacific tropical island discover to their horror that an atom bomb is due to be detonated in their close proximity. […]
When an imperfect, unqualified, unsuitable priest (Robbie Coltrane) is mistakenly elected Pope after a clerk mishears the name, he starts to uncover a web of corruption in the Vatican, in director Peter Richardson’s uneven but […]
Raymond Cordy and Henri Marchand star in writer-director René Clair’s dazzlingly witty 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté [Freedom for Us], in which Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes from jail and works his way up […]
The often hilarious 1990 British caper comedy Nuns on the Run stars ideal Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, who give winningly amusing performances as bank robbers who hide in a nunnery dressed as nuns. Writer-director […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 No Room for the Groom is a frothy light comedy centring on GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis) eloping to marry Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie) in Las Vegas before she has had […]
Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]
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