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Anthony Asquith’s 1960 British romantic comedy film The Millionairess has the huge virtue of bringing together Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers on screen. Director Anthony Asquith’s 1960 British romantic comedy film The Millionairess may be less […]
Director Charles Crichton’s 1947 Hue and Cry is notable and historically important as the first of the Ealing comedies, leading the way for Britain’s Ealing Studios classics of the late Forties and Fifties. But Crichton’s splendid comedy adventure […]
Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s 1955 charmer stars Sunderland-born Bill Travers weedy Scots weakling Geordie, who, with the help of porridge and a mail-order muscle-building course, gains both height and strength, and hurls the hammer in the 1956 […]
It’s impossible to oversell the vintage 1956 British black and white film The Green Man: it’s wonderful vintage British black comedy stuff, a true comic gem, with adorable performers on their best form. Directors Robert […]
Ian Carmichael stars in 1960 as the wimpy, bewildered Henry Palfrey, a man afflicted with a giant inferiority complex. He is devastated when sophisticated, flashy rotter Raymond Delouney (Terry-Thomas) makes a play for pretty April Smith […]
‘I believe the world is becoming a very hard and cruel place.’ – Scrooge. Director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1951 seasonal delight Scrooge [A Christmas Carol] is the simply best movie version of the Charles Dickens classic […]
Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]