Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy evict their dog, Laughing Gravy, when their mean, dog-hating landlord (Charlie Hall) finds him and then spend the rest of the freezing night looking for him. The boys come up with […]
Producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1957 cinema feature The Golden Age of Comedy is his deservedly highly popular first trawl through the silent era archives. It is a hilarious compilation of classic scenes from silent comedy, featuring […]
‘So Little Time’ (recorded by Andy Williams on CBS Records) is 55 Days at Peking’s hit song, but you will need plenty of time to settle down to producer Samuel Bronston and director Nicholas Ray’s vast-scale 1900 […]
Spectacular, brilliantly shot (in Technicolor by cinematographer Cecilio Paniagua) battle scenes highlight director Robert Siodmak’s adventurous 1967 international co-production Custer of the West, a thoughtful and intelligent biopic of George Armstrong Custer, the controversial US general, who […]
‘Mr Hardy holds that every husband should tell his wife the whole truth – Mr Laurel is crazy too.’ Director James W Horne 1931 comedy is a touching and sometimes hilarious Stan Laurel and Oliver […]
Director Adrian Edmondson’s debut feature, the appalling Guest House Paradiso (1999), is a nasty, witless, incredibly vulgar British slapstick black comedy that wastes so much top Nineties talent as well as the audience’s time and […]
The impressive 1971 Spanish-shot spaghetti Western film Valdez Is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in a character role as Bob Valdez, a Mexican-American sheriff who confronts a cattleman. Director Edwin Sherin’s impressive 1971 Spanish-shot spaghetti Western […]
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