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The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s *** (1960, Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Thorley Walters, Dennis Price, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2797

Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s less entertaining 1961 number three in the comedy film franchise brings back the hellish schoolgirls from Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, who now torch their school and are recruited for an Arab’s harem. It […]

Aug, 10

Carry On Jack *** (1963, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Jim Dale, Juliet Mills, Cecil Parker, Donald Houston) – Classic Movie Review 2377

Director Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1963 Carry On film comes from the series’s vintage era but manages to assemble only a very few of the regular team. Along with Carry On Cruising (1962), this entry features the lowest number […]

Apr, 11

The Stars Look Down **** (1940, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 2205

Director Carol Reed’s admirable 1940 movie version of A J Cronin’s novel is meticulously crafted, crisply scripted and expertly performed by a fine cast. It stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick, a […]

Feb, 23

A French Mistress *** (1960, Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, Agnès Laurent) – Classic Movie Review 2117

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s saucy 1960 comedy A French Mistress stars James Robertson Justice as Robert Martin or ‘Bow Wow’, Cecil Parker as John Crane MA. headmaster of Melbury School, Raymond Huntley as the reverend Edwin Peake, […]

Jan, 26

Oh! What a Lovely War **** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1863

  For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]

Nov, 22

Heavens Above! **** (1963, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Ian Carmichael, Isabel Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1859

Malcolm Muggeridge came up with the idea for the Boulting Brothers’ thoughtful and entertaining 1963 satirical comedy film Heavens Above! Peter Sellers tickles the funny bone even in a largely serious performance as the Rev […]

Nov, 20

Under Capricorn **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 452

‘Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense’. Yes, the 1949 British historical thriller Under Capricorn is business as usual from Alfred Hitchcock, but with a little bit of a twist. It is not […]

Nov, 26

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