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‘Laughs a Minute on the High Seas!’ Alas, Doctor in Trouble is right. Leslie Phillips is back as Dr Tony Burke, who is in love with Ophelia O’Brien (Angela Scoular), who promptly leaves for a […]
‘TAKE A DEEP BREATH…then laugh your head off at the comedy where the girls are medically chaste’ The rather less charismatic or popular Michael Craig takes over in 1960 from the much-missed series star Dirk […]
The sixth Doctor film from 1966 has some very rough edges, and plays without series star Dirk Bogarde but with Leslie Phillips as the main star instead, which is not the same thing at all. […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1957 British comedy is number three in the incredibly popular Doctor films franchise and writer Richard Gordon’s series is still getting most of its comic gag shots right on target. Nicholas Phipps […]
Terence Davies’s extremely moving and emotionally powerful 2015 coming-of-age epic film Sunset Song is adapted from the devastating 1932 classic novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Veteran British auteur Terence Davies’s extraordinarily moving and […]
The sinister 1973 British horror movie The Legend of Hell House stars Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowall as a quartet who agree to spend the week in Hell House to see […]
Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]