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Director Lewis Seiler’s 1940 Flight Angels offers good nostalgia for wartime flying, pre-war in America’s case, and these are the brisk, cheery stewardesses (Jane Wyman, Virginia Bruce) and capable, brave pilots (Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris) […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1953 romantic drama So Big, the desultory remake of the 1932 semi-classic So Big, based on the Pulitizer Prize novel by Edna Ferber, is thin, soapy and over-extended. The cast is good […]
Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]
Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr Topaze, starring in an old role previously played by John Barrymore in Topaze back in 1933, as an upright French school teacher fired when he […]
Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] (1998) is the last of Éric Rohmer’s four seasonal tales, preceded by A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter and A Summer’s Tale. It is the fourth film of his […]
Director Mark Stuart’s rather feeble and obvious though entirely genial enough 1971 Please Sir! is the big-screen film version of the deservedly highly popular TV school sitcom, in which caring but hapless teacher Mr Hedges […]
The beloved 1980 Scottish comedy classic Gregory’s Girl gets a belated sequel in Bill Forsyth’s 1999 romantic comedy Gregory’s 2 Girls [Gregory’s Two Girls], with Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) now a gangly English teacher, back […]