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Life in Emergency Ward 10 ** (1959, Charles Tingwell, Michael Craig, Wilfrid Hyde White, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Owen, Rosemary Miller, Frederick Bartman, Joan Sims, Pauline Stroud) – Classic Movie Review 5745

Director Robert Day’s 1959 cinema spin-off film of Britain’s first twice-weekly TV serial Emergency Ward 10, which ran for 10 years between 1957 and 1967, has enormous nostalgia value. Re-creating his TV role, Aussie heart-throb […]

Jul, 11

The Raging Moon [Long Ago, Tomorrow] **** (1971, Nanette Newman, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 2429

Co-writer/director Bryan Forbes’s tearjerker 1971 film of Peter Marshall’s novel about a love affair between two handicapped people living in a church-run home for the disabled is moving and involving. It showcases a pair of […]

Apr, 26

Carry On Again Doctor *** (1969, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 2374

Director Gerald Thomas assembles a vintage Carry On cast of the familiar funny faces in 1969 for this more or less consistently amusing if slightly less funny attempt to repeat the success of the big hit […]

Apr, 11

Carry On Doctor *** (1967, Frankie Howerd, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Barbara Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 1884

Frankie Howerd stars in Carry On Doctor in 1967 with almost all the regular Carry On team, the 15th in the series, the second to have a medical theme. They gather in style for this […]

Nov, 25

Carry On Nurse **** (1959, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bill Owen, Irene Handl, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1213

One of the most successful and best of the Carry On movies, director Gerald Thomas’s Carry On Nurse was Britain’s top money-maker in 1959. Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Wilfrid Hyde White star as broken-wristed […]

May, 14

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