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Majestic bass Paul Robeson warbles his way through this fascinating, heartwarming, if long dated, tale of Johnny Zinga, a London dock worker who is turned by his encounter with an impresario into an opera star […]
Director Terence Fisher’s neatly scripted, well handled, decently acted 1948 British black and white drama second feature film To the Public Danger is produced by John Croydon, and stars Dermot Walsh, Susan Shaw, Barry Letts, […]
Underrated actor Patrick McGoohan grabs his opportunity as Thomas Crimmin, a new young Dublin prison warder questioning his views on capital punishment at the imminent hanging of a condemned man, in writer-director Arthur Dreifuss’s 1963 […]
The young Gary Cooper’s career was boosted when he starred in producer and director Richard Wallace’s 1930 all-talking drama film Seven Days Leave, the early-sound version of J M Barrie’s 1917 play The Old Lady […]
Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]
Director Monty Banks’s lively 1939 British musical comedy Shipyard Sally stars Gracie Fields as failed music-hall singer Sally Fitzgerald, who takes charge of the saloon her father Major Fitzgerald (Sydney Howard) has bought near the John […]
‘A New Peter Sellers – Tough and Ruthless!’ as a London villain in John Guillermin’s 1960 crime drama Never Let Go. Director John Guillermin’s 1960 British black and white crime drama thriller film Never Let […]