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The Rebel [Call Me Genius] *** (1960, Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 2107

Director Robert Day’s 1960 comedy for the Associated British Picture Corporation is certainly Tony Hancock’s finest hour in the movies, the better of his two star vehicles made at the height of his extraordinary fame, before […]

Jan, 24

The Wrong Box *** (1966, John Mills, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 1903

Julia Finsbury (Nanette Newman): ‘My father was a missionary. He was eaten by his Bible class.’ Producer-director Bryan Forbes’s unusual and likeable, delightfully daft 1966 British period screwball dark comedy is ‘suggested by’ Robert Louis Stevenson […]

Nov, 29

The Wrong Arm of the Law **** (1962, Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Davy Kaye, Bernard Cribbins, John le Mesurier, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 1865

Director Cliff Owen’s vintage 1962 comedy stars Peter Sellers, who finds one of his most rewarding British parts as Pearly Gates, a criminal mastermind. This exuberant, delightful farce about bungling crooks in the London underworld […]

Nov, 22

The Stepford Wives **** (1974, Katharine Ross, Patrick O’Neal, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman) – Classic Movie Review 1383

Adapted for the screen by expert William Goldman, Ira Levin’s chilling thriller novel emerges smoothed out and tamed down in British director Bryan Forbes’s 1974 film. But it’s still an excellent, richly satisfying movie full of […]

Jul, 01

The League of Gentlemen **** (1960, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 191

Basil Dearden’s superlative 1960 heist caper film The League of Gentlemen stars Jack Hawkins as a disgruntled former British military officer who assembles a gang of disgraced military gentlemen for a daring bank job.  Renowned […]

Aug, 26

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