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Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]
Director Tony Richardson’s superlative 1960 film version of one of John Osborne’s finest theatre plays The Entertainer has the enormous advantage of encouraging Laurence Olivier to record for posterity one of his greatest stage appearances – […]
Director Agnieska Holland’s plush, riveting and indeed quite splendid 1996 remake of Henry James’s novel is a worthy remake of The Heiress (1949), set in 19th century New York. Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent as […]
Little orphan Annie is rescued from a 1930s life of misery, poverty and the orphanage by the incredibly rich and mushy-hearted benefactor Daddy Warbucks in director John Huston’s 1982 musical film of the famous Broadway […]
In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]
Director Karel Reisz’s compelling and convincing 1960 movie version of Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling 1958 first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning made a new international star out of Albert Finney, almost overnight. Finney plays the […]
Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]