Fine acting and good screen-writing are showcased in the highly competent, convincing and appealing 1937 black and white drama film South Riding from producer Alexander Korda and director Victor Saville, who takes it very briskly […]
Strikers take over the running of their small factory making tractors and ploughs from their pompous big boss Dickinson (Basil Radford), in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bernard Miles’s entertaining and thoughtful 1950-style anti-authority comedy drama Chance […]
Bernard Miles co-writes and co-directs (with Charles Saunders) and produces and stars in the 1944 British black and white wartime comedy Tawny Pipit, a gently winsome piece of whimsy about the momentarily near-calamitous events that […]
Douglas Fairbanks Sr and his wife Mary Pickford at their end of their great run of success finally star together – and entertain! – as a virile Petruchio and tempestuous Kate in director Sam Taylor’s […]
Louis Malle’s highly disturbing and controversial American debut with the 1978 Pretty Baby caused quite a few shock waves with its World War One story set in 1917 about a 12-year-old girl Violet (Brooke Shields), […]
The George Bernard Shaw play roars on to the screen in director Chester Erskine’s 1952 drama Androcles and the Lion, with its ancient Rome story of Androcles (Alan Young), the nice Christian tailor who removes a […]
Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 Tamahine is a fusty, mild, old-style romantic comedy with plenty of routine, school-set and culture-clash laughs, based on the novel by Thelma Nicklaus. But it rolls along pleasantly and humorously, though […]
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