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Children of the Damned *** (1964, Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Patrick Wymark, Ralph Michael) – Classic Movie Review 3195

Director Anton M Leader’s 1964 further Sixties adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos is a less successful, but still intriguing and thoughtful, thematic sequel follow-up to Village of the Damned (1960). […]

Dec, 29

The Passenger [Professione: Reporter] **** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 2841

‘I used to be somebody else… but I traded myself in.’ – David Locke. Co-writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni decorates – or rather obscures – Mark Peploe’s intriguing 1975 thriller plot with a great deal of fine […]

Aug, 23

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter *** (1974, Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson, Ian Hendry, Shane Briant, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 2834

Co-producer/writer/director Brian Clemens’s 1974 Hammer Films horror spoof stars German actor Horst Janson as the vampire hunter/swordsman/destroyer Captain Kronos, who, along with his hunchback assistant and a bumbling professor Hieronymos Grost (John Cater), ride into […]

Aug, 21

The Hill **** (1965, Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear, Michael Redgrave, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 2114

Director Sidney Lumet’s distinguished, brutal 1965 military drama The Hill is a showcase for tour de force acting from Sean Connery as Joe Roberts, one of the five new prisoners being punished in a British […]

Jan, 25

Theatre of Blood **** (1973, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 1936

Director Douglas Hickox’s engagingly outrageous 1973 British horror farce movie Theatre of Blood provides an ideal showcase for Vincent Price, whose talent for succulent over-acting is lavishly displayed when he plays crazed thespian Edward Lionheart, […]

Dec, 08

Room at the Top **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 1483

Director Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Its star Laurence Harvey may […]

Jul, 27

Live Now – Pay Later **** (1962, Ian Hendry, Liz Fraser, June Ritchie, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 1,480

‘There’s 200,000 consumers in this town, and they’re all waiting for you… just you.’ – Mr Callendar (John Gregson). ‘Yeah, to con ’em into buying a whole load of stuff they don’t need and can’t […]

Jul, 27

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