Back in 1968 Otto Preminger’s wild and wacky black comedy Skidoo dropped on the world like a lead balloon as a notorious bomb. But it has fervent admirers and it is certainly worth trying for […]
Tony (Anthony) Curtis is still struggling to make his mark in the movies, playing Captain Jones, in the first Francis the Talking Mule film… Donald O’Connor stars as truthful bumbling World War Two soldier Lieutenant […]
Look out for an early appearance by Clint Eastwood in a Talking Mule flick. Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 American black-and-white comedy film Francis in the Navy (1955) is the sixth film in the mysteriously popular […]
The estimable star duo of Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing give a boost to producer-director Arthur Lubin’s eager and amiable 1956 Technicolor comedy Western The First Traveling Saleslady. Though minor, slight and mild, it is […]
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1970 The Forbin Project is a clever, thoughtful sci-fi thriller in which Colossus, the super computer controlling America’s missile defences, combines with its Russian counterpart to force the world into peace. James […]
Lots of exciting aerial sequences, a good dash of sentiment and an appropriately stiff-lipped script help to make Leslie Howard’s 1942 black and white wartime tribute The First of the Few [Spitfire] a thoroughly affecting […]
’78 stars in one Great Picture!’ Europeans in Hollywood gave their services free for RKO Radio Pictures’s black and white drama 1943 Forever and a Day about a London house from 1804 to the Blitz […]
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