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The 1828-set real-life Burke and Hare story is one of the staples of horror movies and here it is again in a fair-to-good chiller from writer-director John Gilling in the 1960 British black and white […]
Director George Marshall’s 1941 screwball comedy Pot o’ Gold [The Golden Hour] has the distinction of featuring James Stewart on the mouth-organ and performing ‘When Johnny Toots His Horn’ (written by Hy Heath and Fred Rose), which may […]
Director William Beaudine’s agreeably raucous and extremely funny 1934 W C Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way sees the star at his grouchiest as The Great McGonigle, the blustery actor-manager head of a group of […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1936 comedy Go West Young Man stars Mae West, who takes over the star role from a 1934 Broadway hit play called Personal Appearance by Lawrence Riley (which featured Gladys George), as […]
Ollie, French horn player: ‘I wouldn’t mind training a seal or an elephant, but you’re hopeless!’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s 1928 short subject film You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] is one of Stan Laurel and […]
Harold Pinter’s highly respected and greatly admired classic play about lodger Stanley Webber, a tatty paying guest (Robert Shaw) in a seedy rooming house at an English seaside resort, who is threatened by two mysterious visiting […]
This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]