Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1957 British comedy Just My Luck finds Norman Wisdom re-united with Margaret Rutherford, the co-star of his 1953 debut film Trouble in Store. Just our luck to have Wisdom as Norman […]
Director William A Wellman’s 1947 comedy Magic Town is an underrated pleasure. It describes the politician’s dream – a Magic Town that is a perfect mirror of American opinions. James Stewart stars as opinion pollster […]
Director Tony Maylam’s attractive 1978 adventure The Riddle of the Sands is deliberately old fashioned, with stiff-upper-lip performances, a handsome, well-crafted production and that convincing period atmosphere that the British do so well. The 1903 […]
‘SEE! men and equipment float in air, trapped where there is no gravity – no up or down!’ A scientist sends a three-man team into space to retrieve an asteroid, in this entertainingly bizarre, ‘realistic’ […]
‘Built to serve man… it could think a thousand times faster! move a thousand times faster! kill a thousand times faster…Then suddenly it became a Frankenstein of steel!’ Producer Ivan Tors provides the story for […]
‘This one man stands between the earth and DOOM!’ Beware the terrors of the magnetic monster, accidentally caused by a radioactive isotope developed by a scientist, Howard Denker (Leonard Mudie), now dying of radiation poisoning. […]
Director Robert Bresson’s 1956 French film Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où il Veut [A Man Escaped] is the brilliantly made, stark, true story of a captured French Resistance fighter, […]
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