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Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1958 pop musical Six-Five Special [Calling All Cats] features Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan, Cleo Laine, Johnny Dankworth, Jim Dale, John Barry, Dickie Valentine, Joan Regan and Russ Hamilton among many others. The […]
Director Peter Frazer-Jones’s 1980 comedy George and Mildred is a fairly dismal film version of the popular British TV comedy show (1976-80) with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, whose anniversary package trip […]
Director Bob Kellett’s relatively harmless 1977 British comedy Are You Being Served? is the big-screen spinoff from the much-loved long-running BBC TV series as the staff of the London Grace Brothers department store flies off […]
Hammer Films’ 1951 British thriller film Black Widow is a version of a BBC radio serial of the day, Lester Powell’s Return from Darkness, and stars Christine Norden, Robert Ayres and Jennifer Jayne. The 1951 […]
Director Mike Vardy’s 1973 Man at the Top is the third film about that nasty piece of work Joe Lampton, this time a Hammer Films studios spin-off from the popular Thames TV series (1970-72) with […]
Director Michael Engler’s 2019 drama Downton Abbey is a smooth, amusing and entertaining, but cliched, clunky, corny, cosy and choppy spinoff from the Downton Abbey TV show that ran six seasons and 52 episodes from […]
Director Peter Segal’s 1993 daffy crazy comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult is an undemanding, hit-and-miss second sequel, a bit low on pace and verve, but with enough laughs (some in bad taste), […]