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The 1976 British sex comedy film Spanish Fly is lame, unfunny and vulgar, with a deft, expert cast of familiar farceurs (Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas) stranded in silly Spanish slapstick. Director Bob Kellett’s 1976 film Spanish […]
A thrilling experience, the 1981 Spanish film Blood Wedding [Bodas de Sangre] is one of the great dance movies. Director Carlos Saura watches with his cameras as Antonio Gades rehearses his flamenco version of the […]
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 […]
The 1936 film The Plough and the Stars is John Ford’s failed labour-of-love version of the Sean O’Casey play about the 1916 Irish rebellion, centring on Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyck)’s fight to stop her rebel […]
The 1952 British drama film Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] is a decently crafted, enjoyable film of Stanley Houghton’s famed 1912 play about an independently minded English north country mill girl (Lisa Daniely) enjoying a holiday […]
Writer Tom Stoppard turns director to supervise the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the movie of his wordy (or dialogue driven) play about two of the minor characters from Hamlet – courtiers who […]
The 1994 comedy drama Decadence is, as the poster says, ‘degenerate and disgusting’, but alas perhaps it is not also ‘deliciously funny’ as advertised, though it does have a certain oddball fascination, and its two […]