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Writer-director Cy Endfield’s 1957 British film noir crime drama Hell Drivers stars Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Stanley Baker celebrates his first lead role by giving one of his best tough-guy turns as Joe ‘Tom’ Yateley, a one-time […]
Hammer Film Productions’ trail-blazing 1955 British sci-fi horror film The Quatermass Xperiment (US title The Creeping Unknown) is based on Nigel Kneale’s enormously successful 1953 BBC TV serial The Quatermass Experiment. The 1955 British film The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer Film […]
Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]
Ealing Studios’ 1945 British thriller film Pink String and Sealing Wax, set in 1880s Victorian Brighton, is most atmospheric and entertaining. Googie Withers stars as Pearl Bond, the scheming, adulterous wife of a pub owner […]
The 1956 British colour comedy film The Baby and the Battleship is a cheery and fast-moving Fifties caper about a boatload of jovial Royal Navy sailors who have shore leave in Naples before being left […]
Michael Caine stars as Harry Palmer in the 1965 British spy film The Ipcress File, based on Len Deighton’s 1962 novel. Director Sidney J Furie’s modishly stylish 1965 spy thriller The Ipcress File showcases Michael Caine, who gives one of his most […]
The 1962 remake of MGM’s 1935 classic film Mutiny on the Bounty is a lumbering adventure epic version of the famous story. It was nominated for seven Oscars but there were no wins. Director Lewis […]