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Director Don Sharp’s brisk and entertaining 1965 British-West German crime thriller horror movie is the first and best of five Twenties period thrillers featuring Christopher Lee as Sax Rohmer’s dastardly super-villain character Fu Manchu, who surprisingly […]
Director Charles Frend’s 1948 British historical adventure classic provides the showcase for one of John Mills’s most admired, tightly reined-in heroic performances as the quixotic British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Mills’s great performance brings […]
Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]
Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]
Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow in the 1955 British comedy film Doctor at Sea, with a surprise co-star in French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, who bounces into his life as the pouting Hélène […]
The 1968 children’s musical fantasy movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stars Dick Van Dyke as eccentric widowed Edwardian inventor Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as his beautiful rich fiancée Truly Scrumptious. Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s […]
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, […]