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The 1963 British crime thriller film Switch stars Zena Marshall as a woman abducted by a wrist watch smuggling gang who believe she knows too much. It is the last film of Susan Shaw, who […]
‘For one brief weekend, their love was all that mattered.’ Director Larry Parr’s conscientious, well-acted, low-key, touching little 1989 World War Two romantic drama A Soldier’s Tale is based on the novel by M K […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1957 black and white thriller Across the Bridge stars Rod Steiger, who came to Britain to play Carl Schaffner, a scared swindler running from the London law ( Noel Willman as Chief […]
The expert 1962 British war drama film The Password Is Courage stars Dirk Bogarde, who is on very good form as real-life Sgt Major Charlie Coward, the British officer who kept escaping and being captured […]
‘They say the Nile still runs red from the Battle of Khartoum!’ ‘Khartoum — where the Nile divides, the great Cinerama adventure begins!’ Director Basil Dearden’s 1966 adventure Khartoum is an intriguing, thoughtful and well-acted […]
Director Caspar Wrede’s offbeat, strained 1975 British thriller Ransom [The Terrorists] is set in Scandinavia and stars Sean Connery as a ruthless Norwegian special military police boss Colonel Tahlvik who is assigned to deal with […]
Director Richard Lester’s iconic 1967 British comedy How I Won the War is a frenzied and frantic send-up of war movies, working from a surreal script by Charles Wood, based on Patrick Ryan’s novel. It […]