Let’s Make It Legal (1951) is a fairly bubbly and charming Fifties romantic comedy film, with a good cast giving it a boost. Claudette Colbert and Macdonald Carey star, and Marilyn Monroe has a brief […]
‘Rooney Runs Riot on the Roller Raceways!’ Director Tay Garnett’s 1950 The Fireball stars Mickey Rooney as orphan Johnny Casar, who flees from Father O’Hara (Pat O’Brien)’s orphanage school, becomes a champion star on roller skates, […]
Director Thorold Dickinson’s dark and downbeat 1951 thriller Secret People is a sluggishly handled, unusually colourless Ealing Studios drama of intrigue, which suffers from a lack of suspense, a surfeit of ideology and a low […]
‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled at the beauties of circus life – Mr Laurel never got further than the monkey cage.’ After working for a circus for seven weeks of rain and with no business […]
Writer-producer-director-editor-stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s surreal 1972 music film and pseudo-documentary Imagine is poignant home movie footage of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from Lennon’s historic Imagine album and Yoko’s […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy upset their suspicious landlord (Edgar Kennedy) and another house-guest (Charlie Hall) when they hide a stray goat in their ‘no pets’ lodgings after they hear that the pet-shop owner thinks that […]
The 1959 The Angry Hills stars the always-watchable Robert ‘Old Snake Eyes’ Mitchum in a Leon Uris World War Two-set wartime thriller under ace film-maker Robert Aldrich’s cannily stalwart direction. But, with these people, you […]
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