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’36 hours of love!…’ Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white screwball comedy One Night in Lisbon is the welcome and enjoyable if uninspired fourth and penultimate paring of the delightful Madeleine […]
Director Harold French’s 1943 Gainsborough Pictures British black and white comedy drama film Dear Octopus [The Randolph Family] stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Wilding, along with Celia Johnson, Roland Culver, Athene Seyler, Helen Haye and Frederick Leister. […]
Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]
‘Let yourself in for a Big Laugh!’ Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British Hammer Films black and white comedy mystery thriller Someone at the Door stars Michael Medwin, Yvonne Owen, Garry Marsh, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green, […]
‘I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why – I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.’ Hammer Films’ 1950 mystery thriller film […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1950 black and white British comedy Traveller’s Joy is based on the hit London stage play by Arthur Macrae, and stars Googie Withers, John McCallum and Yolande Donlan. It is the last […]
Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1952 black and white film Treasure Hunt is a madcap comedy with a gaggle of ageing relatives searching for their family’s nest-egg, which has mysteriously gone missing. It is based on […]