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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
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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Quiet Weekend *** (1946, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, George Thorpe, Frank Cellier, Helen Shingler, Barbara White, Edward Rigby) – Classic Movie Review 8623
Derek Farr stars as Denys Royd, who goes to the country for the weekend at a run-down cottage with his parents (Marjorie Fielding and George Thorpe) and obnoxious socialite girlfriend, in the 1946 British comedy […]
Happy Is the Bride *** (1958, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, Terry-Thomas, John le Mesurier, Eric Barker, Nicholas Parsons, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8618
Director Roy Boulting’s 1957 British black and white comedy Happy Is the Bride is a whimsical, sweet but old-fashioned farce with interfering over-enthusiastic parents, family and friends rearranging the young couple David and Janet (Ian […]
Sparrows Can’t Sing **** (1963, James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 8595
Director Joan Littlewood brings her Theatre Royal Stratford East London stage hit to the screen with all its sparkle and enthusiasm intact in the 1963 British black and white kitchen sink comedy Sparrows Can’t Sing. It […]
South Sea Woman ** (1953, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 8553
Between two of his most important movies, Come Back Little Sheba and From Here to Eternity, the great Burt Lancaster went coasting in director Arthur Lubin’s 1953 time-filler adventure South Sea Woman, though Lancaster and […]
The Shop at Sly Corner *** (1947, Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8482
Oskar Homolka has a field day playing Desius Heiss, an antique dealer with a secret criminal past, who is ready to kill to save his beautiful violin-playing daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), in director George King’s […]
Nearly a Nasty Accident ** (1961, Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis, Ronnie Stevens, Jon Pertwee, Eric Barker, Peter Jones, Jack Watling, Joyce Carey, Terry Scott) – Classic Movie Review 8343
Director Don Chaffey’s 1961 Nearly a Nasty Accident is a welcome if routine and very mild British comedy, based on a play called Touch Wood by David Carr, about a meek-mannered National Serviceman aircraft mechanic (Kenneth […]
Dry Rot *** (1956, Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Sidney James, Peggy Mount, Michael Shepley, Heather Sears, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 8334
Director Maurice Elvey’s 1956 British black and white comedy movie Dry Rot gallops along at a fair whip and stays the course, but, alas, fails to get to the winning post first, being a bit […]