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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence **** (1983, David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 3343

David Bowie gives a surprisingly persuasive performance as Major Jack ‘Strafer’ Celliers, a brave British prisoner-of-war in a Japanese camp, in 1942 in co-writer/ director Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, an unexpectedly […]

Feb, 08

The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery ** (1966, George Cole, Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney) – Classic Movie Review 2798

The 1966 fourth episode of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s broad farcical St Trinian’s comedies, based on the cartoons of Ronald Searle, is unfortunately a rather weary effort. Alas there is neither Alastair Sim nor Joyce […]

Aug, 10

The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s *** (1960, Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Thorley Walters, Dennis Price, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2797

Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s less entertaining 1961 number three in the comedy film franchise brings back the hellish schoolgirls from Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, who now torch their school and are recruited for an Arab’s harem. It […]

Aug, 10

Blue Murder at St Trinian’s **** (1957, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries, Sabrina, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 2789

Alastair Sim returns as St Trinian’s headmistress Miss Millicent Frinton, though alas appears in only two scenes, put out of action tied up in the school belfry, so the English gym-slipped schoolgirls can head off for […]

Aug, 08

The Belles of St Trinian’s ***** (1954, Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Beryl Reid, Joan Sims, Irene Handl) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 2786

Director Frank Launder and producer Sidney Gilliat’s 1954 British comedy classic about the misadventures of cartoonist creator Ronald Searle’s grotty schoolgirls at England’s famously appalling St Trinian’s School for Young Ladies is the original and […]

Aug, 07

The Last Laugh [Der letzte Mann] ***** (1924, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller) – Classic Movie Review 2474

Director F W Murnau’s tear-jerking 1924 tragic drama The Last Laugh [Der letzte Mann] provides a marvellous showcase for the great silent movie actor Emil Jannings. He gives a superb display of silent film acting […]

May, 11

Carry On Sergeant **** (1958, William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 454

Director Gerald Thomas’s and producer Peter Rogers’s landmark 1958 comedy was such a hit that it turned out to be the first of 30 Carry On movies, Britain’s longest series. The breezy romp that unexpectedly […]

Nov, 27

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