Director Ralph Thomas’s 1969 comedy action adventure thriller Some Girls Do is the mostly tedious sequel to Deadlier than the Male, in which Richard Johnson returns as Sapper’s spy hero character Hugh Bulldog Drummond, who […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]
Back in the far-off days when Pierre Clémenti was a bright young French star to watch, he played an 18th-century orphan youth whose wealthy aunt, the beautiful Countess Gabrielle de Valandry (Michèle Morgan), teaches him […]
Director Phil Karlson’s horror thriller Ben (1972) is the bloody but not too terrible horror sequel to Willard which, by sticking close to the original 1971 film story, can just about please those who enjoyed Bruce […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1943 The Bells Go Down has its appeal but it suffers by comparison with the same year’s Fires Were Started. You didn’t expect to see Tommy Trinder and James Mason in the […]
What will happen to a baby boy born in 1944, the last September of the war? Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1945 short film A Diary for Timothy is another of his Crown Film Unit classics. Director […]
Writer-director Humphrey Jennings’s wonderfully sensitive, realistic and moving 1943 documentary Fires Were Started about a London fire unit’s 24-hour day during the German air-raid bombings of winter 1940 elevates mundane detail to sublime significance and […]
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