‘One step up from the gutter and one kiss away from jail!’ Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1969 drama The Smashing Bird I Used to Know [School for Unclaimed Girls] stars Madeleine Hinde [Madeline Hinde] as Nicki […]
Kenneth More, Jeremy Lloyd, Dinsdale Landen and Derek Fowlds play four sailors who embroil themselves in political nonsense in the Mediterranean in director Wendy Toye’s soggy 1962 comedy We Joined the Navy, which is very […]
Producer-director Nathan Juran’s 1964 East of Sudan is a simple, familiar, good-looking colonial adventure movie, with stalwart performances from Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter and Johnny Sekka, who help to make it […]
Director Matt Williams’s tastily offbeat 2000 comedy Where the Heart Is stars Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teenager, quarrelling with her mom (Sally Field) and then abandoned by her boyfriend (Dylan Bruno) in a […]
Producer-director John Boorman’s 1990 comedy drama Where the Heart Is is a modern comedic New York version of King Lear, with Dabney Coleman as Stewart McBain, an arrogant builder real-estate mogul who kicks out his […]
‘Awfully able man, that’s the tragedy of it.’ A Question of Attribution (1991) is a careful and opulent transfer to film by director John Schlesinger of Alan Bennett’s witty and wise one-act play, with most […]
Alan Bennett’s sharply witty screenplay for An Englishman Abroad (1983) is taken from the actress Coral Browne’s anecdote about how she met notorious spy traitor Guy Burgess in an Old Vic theatre exchange tour of […]
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