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Very Important Person [A Coming-Out Party] *** (1961, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 9664

The super vintage Brit laughter-raisers are on funny form, especially Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips and Eric Sykes, in director Ken Annakin’s zesty, entertaining 1961 wartime-set British black and white comedy Very Important Person [A Coming-Out […]

Apr, 22

Two Thousand Women *** (1944, Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renée Houston, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6970

Co-writer/ director Frank Launder’s solid 1944 British wartime comedy drama from Gainsborough Pictures offers plenty of suspense, wartime atmosphere and detail, and some cheerful humour thrown in as well. It stars the formidable line-up of Phyllis […]

Apr, 27

King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422

George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]

Apr, 24

The Railway Man *** (2013, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Based on his autobiography, this is the upsetting and honourable true story about Englishman Eric Lomax, one of thousands of Allied prisoners working like slaves on the construction of the Thai/Burma ‘Death Railway’ during World War […]

Jan, 09

The Wooden Horse **** (1950, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Michael Goodliffe, Bryan Forbes, Russell Waters, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 200

Director Jack Lee’s famous 1950 film is deservedly one of the best-loved escape stories of World War Two, with a screenplay by Eric Williams, based on his autobiographical book, originally written under a pseudonym of […]

Aug, 28

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