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Liv Ullmann comes to Britain to play Kate, who loses her husband in an accident and finds out that he was having an affair with Josie (Amanda Redman). The two women comfort each other, and […]
Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]
Director Eric Till’s 1976 British comedy drama It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet [All Things Bright and Beautiful] is based on the book by James Herriot, and stars John Alderton, Colin Blakely and Lisa Harrow, […]
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 Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]
Director Christian Marquand’s 1968 fantasy comedy Candy is certainly a curiosity and has the most incredible cast as its star attraction: Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston, James Coburn, Ewa Aulin, Walter Matthau, Charles Aznavour, […]
Director John Harlow’s 1944 British mystery thriller Candles at Nine stars Jessie Matthews as Dorothea Capper, a beautiful young showgirl who becomes a surprise heiress when she is left a bundle by her old distant […]