‘There has been a serious misunderstanding in the Hardy family.’ Stan Laurel masquerades as Mrs Hardy to please Oliver Hardy’s rich uncle (William Courtwright) in director Lloyd French’s very inventive and funny 1929 two reeler […]
‘Mr Hardy fell on his leg and was laid up for two months. Mr Laurel fell on his head and hadn’t felt better in years.’ Director James Parrott’s 1932 Hal Roach Studios black and white […]
Director Samuel Gallu’s 1966 British horror movie Theatre of Death [Blood Fiend] stars Christopher Lee as Philippe Darvas, a supercilious director of Grand Guignol horror plays at The Theatre of Death in Paris, and he […]
Director Robert Altman concentrates more on human emotions than the special effects in his 1967 sci-fi thriller Countdown and the result is always fascinating if a little earnest and uncommercial, though that isn’t necessarily a […]
Director Robert Altman handles the strange psycho-pathological material in his fascinating 1969 psycho sexual drama That Cold Day in the Park meticulously and rigorously (and it foreshadows his other striking but less popular films like […]
Writer-producer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1979 That Sinking Feeling is a bright, funny, light-hearted comedy in which four unemployed Glaswegian scallywag teens – Ronnie (Robert Buchanan), Wal (Billy Greenlees), Andy (John Gordon Sinclair) and Vic (John Hughes) […]
Director Christopher Miles’s modestly engaging, lightweight 1975 romantic comedy That Lucky Touch stars Roger Moore as European arms dealer Michael Scott, who is courted by liberated lefty journalist Julia Richardson (Susannah York), who wants a […]
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