Director Maclean Rogers’s 1952 British radio spinoff comedy Down Among the Z Men [Stand Easy] finds BBC Fifties radio’s zany Goon Show comics Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine are stuck down […]
Between two of his most important movies, Come Back Little Sheba and From Here to Eternity, the great Burt Lancaster went coasting in director Arthur Lubin’s 1953 time-filler adventure South Sea Woman, though Lancaster and […]
Director Brett Leonard’s 1992 sci-fi horror movie The Lawnmower Man stars Jeff Fahey as the simple-minded gardener Jobe Smith, who is used as a guinea pig for Dr Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan)’s experiments with virtual […]
‘What’s worse than an aching tooth at three in the morning. Two of them.’ There is much good-natured mirth when Stan Laurel goes to the dentist’s surgery, with predictable results when he and his mate […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Sidney J Furie’s entertaining 1970 crime drama mystery movie The Lawyer inspired the Seventies TV show Petrocelli, with Barry Newman creating the role of pushy Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer Tony Petrocelli, practising in […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1951 biographical sports drama Jim Thorpe – All American [Man of Bronze] stars Burt Lancaster as American-Indian track star Jim Thorpe, who wins both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics […]
Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1970 British comedy Hoffman stars Peter Sellers as lonely office worker Benjamin Hoffman (Sellers), who is obsessed with the about-to-wed typist Janet Smith (Sinéad Cusack) and blackmails her into spending the week with […]
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