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Mandy [Crash of Silence] ***** (1952, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Phyllis Calvert, Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 2820
Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]
The Man in the White Suit ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 2819
Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]
The Maggie [High and Dry] *** (1954, Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland) – Classic Movie Review 1652
The 1954 British comedy movie The Maggie is a small-scale, wryly amusing, spirit-lifting Ealing comedy from the brains behind The Ladykillers (1955). Director Alexander Mackendrick’s 1954 British comedy movie The Maggie [High and Dry] from Ealing Studios stars […]
Whisky Galore! ***** (1949, Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson) Classic Movie Review 1633
Director Alexander Mackendrick’s brilliant and deservedly fondly remembered 1949 Ealing Studios comedy about the alcohol-deprived folks on a Scottish Outer Hebrides island called Todday in World War Two faced with the temptation of a ship’s […]
Sweet Smell of Success ***** (1957, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 162
‘I’d hate to take a bite out of you, you’re a cookie full of arsenic.’ Director Alexander ‘Sandy’ Mackendrick’s no-holds-barred portrait of ruthless New York gossip columnists was a critical and box office flop in […]
The Ladykillers ***** (1955, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Katie Johnson, Herbert Lom, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Frankie Howerd, Philip Stainton) – Classic Movie Review 36
Ealing Studios’ 1955 black comedy crime film delight The Ladykillers is a deliciously funny film throughout, with Alec Guinness leading a cast to die for. Bafta-winning writer William Rose dreamed the entire film. Packed with […]
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