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Director Robert Asher’s 1959 British black and white comedy Follow a Star stars Norman Wisdom as Norman Truscott, a meek and mild tailor/ wannabee singer, employed by croaky crooner Vernon Carew (Jerry Desmonde) to sing […]
Director Terence Fisher’s 1953 Hammer Films low-budget black and white crime mystery thriller programmer Blood Orange stars Tom Conway as a private investigator called Tom Conway, who investigates after both a model (Delphi Lawrence) and […]
The super-chimp that Ronald Reagan brought up as a human baby in 1951’s Bedtime for Bonzo is back, alas without Ronnie, in this fair 1952 slapstick comedy sequel Bonzo Goes to College, in which literate […]
Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1938 British black and white slapstick comedy It’s in the Air [George Takes the Air] stars George Formby as George Brown, the disaster-struck, motorbike-crazed rookie who joins the RAF as a message […]
The 1936 comedy Keep Your Seats, Please! stars George Formby as George Withers, who chases treasure stashed in an antique chair. BBC boss John Reith said: ‘If the public wants to hear Formby singing his […]
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 […]
Hammer Films’ 1951 British thriller film Black Widow is a version of a BBC radio serial of the day, Lester Powell’s Return from Darkness, and stars Christine Norden, Robert Ayres and Jennifer Jayne. The 1951 […]