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It Happened Here **** (1964, Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison) – Classic Movie Review 11,244

‘The Story of Hitler’s England. What would have happened if the German Army had crossed the English Channel.’  Writer-directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s intelligent, partly-amateur 1964 black and white film by two clever, very […]

May, 26

Convoy **** (1940, Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 11,200

Director Pen Tennyson’s 1940 British Ealing Studios black and white flag-waving war film Convoy is a suitably laid-back, grace-under-fire portrayal of everyday World War Two seafaring existence. It is his third and last film. But […]

May, 12

The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

San Demetrio London **** (1943, Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Charles Victor, Frederick Piper, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 2827

Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]

Aug, 18

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