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Posts Tagged "British New Wave"
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The Mind Benders ** (1963, Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig) – Classic Movie Review 9,379
Basil Dearden’s 1963 British thriller The Mind Benders is an ambitious, intelligent film with a fascinating theme. It enjoys quality acting, particularly by Dirk Bogarde. Director Basil Dearden’s 1963 British thriller film The Mind Benders is written […]
One Way Pendulum **** (1965, Eric Sykes, George Cole, Julia Foster, Jonathan Miller, Peggy Mount) – Classic Movie Review 9329
Director Peter Yates’s delightful, quirky 1965 British comedy One Way Pendulum is a gently but satisfyingly amusing film of N F Simpson’s absurdist play, in which the eccentric Groomkirby family living in the suburbs has […]
Cathy Come Home ***** (1966, Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 8380
Director Ken Loach’s realistic black and white classic 1966 BBC TV drama The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home is a searing indictment of the social services in the British welfare system of the Sixties, focusing on […]
80,000 Suspects *** (1963, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 7022
Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]
The Criminal [Concrete Jungle] **** (1960, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 5843
Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]
Hell Is a City ***½ (1959, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Warren Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3461
Stanley Baker finds a strong vehicle in Hammer Films’ unusually energetic, atmospheric and swift-moving 1959 vintage crime thriller Hell Is a City, atmospherically shot largely on exteriors in Manchester, and topped of with an exciting, […]
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ***** (1966, David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 2911
Director Karel Reisz’s modishly trendy razzle-dazzle 1966 comedy Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment is another pillar of the Swinging Sixties British New Wave cinema. It’s a lovely, funny, appealing film with irrepressible zest and […]