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Director Mario Zampi’s nimble and nifty 1959 British crime comedy stars the irreplaceable comedy gods Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Bernard Bresslaw and Sidney James, who of course greatly enliven this daft but amusing satire on racketeer […]
Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]
Director Sidney Franklin’s 1929 pioneering sound-on-film movie version of Frederick Lonsdale’s famous play about a society jewel thief is ideally cast with Norma Shearer as the widowed Mrs Fay Cheyney and Basil Rathbone as the titled […]
Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s amusing, clever, and appealing 1993 Oscar-winning animated short film is the second of his four Academy Award winners, following Creature Comforts (1989). Peter Sallis again voices Wallace, who is used by […]
The endearingly daft 1963 film Crooks in Cloisters is a happy reminder of the pleasantly simpler days of British comedy when characters were called Bikini (Barbara Windsor of course), Squirts (Bernard Cribbins) and Specs (Davy […]
The 20something Martin Brest directs eminent seniors George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as three bored golden oldies living on the dole, Joe, All and Willie, who plan and carry out a Queens, New York, […]
Producer-director John Ford’s engrossing and compelling 1958 British thriller Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] stars an ideally cast Jack Hawkins as harassed plain-clothes police inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who is having quite […]