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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
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A Man on the Beach ** (1956, Donald Wolfit, Michael Medwin, Michael Ripper) – Classic Movie Review 9803
Director Joseph Losey’s 1956 A Man on the Beach is an intriguing and fair but slightly thin 29-minute Hammer Films crime thriller short feature about a reclusive blind doctor (Donald Wolfit) who encounters a career […]
Dear Mr Prohack *** (1949, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Dirk Bogarde Sheila Sim, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9802
Director Thornton Freeland’s 1949 British comedy Dear Mr Prohack features Cecil Parker recreating his stage role as capable, frugal government treasury official Mr Arthur Prohack, who goes berserk and becomes a spendthrift when he comes […]
A Twist of Sand ** (1968, Richard Johnson, Honor Blackman, Roy Dotrice, Peter Vaughan, Jeremy Kemp, Clifford Evans) – Classic Movie Review 9797
Despite some decent action, director Don Chaffey’s 1968 film A Twist of Sand is a routine adventure with not too many twists and some rather dull acting from very decent British actors saddled with caricature […]
Dentist in the Chair *** (1960, Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens, Reginald Beckwith, Vincent Ball) – Classic Movie Review 9785
Director Don Chaffey’s amusing 1960 British black and white comedy Dentist in the Chair stars Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens as David Cookson and Brian Dexter, young dental-school students who become embroiled with petty criminal […]
So Big ** (1953, Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Richard Beymer, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 9775
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 […]
Only When I Larf ** (1968, Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9765
Director Basil Dearden’s painless 1968 Only When I Larf is an enjoyably tolerable Sixties British crime caper comedy with brightness, if not subtlety to commend it. It features one of Richard Attenborough’s more flamboyant performances […]
King of the Wind **** (1990, Navin Chowdhry, Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson, Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 9733
Director Peter Duffell’s 1990 film King of the Wind is a first-class family adventure about a mute orphan boy called Agba (Navin Chowdhry) and his fine Arab steed, rescued in Paris by English gent Edward […]