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Two dubious stories about Christine Norden. After she died in 1988, part of the planet Venus was named after her as a tribute to her status as Britain’s first postwar sex symbol. In 1967 she […]
The implausible though engaging enough 1963 low-budget British noir drama film A Matter of Choice stars Anthony Steel and Jeanne Moody. Director Vernon Sewell said: ‘Oh it was a disaster… a bloody awful movie.’ Director […]
Terence Fisher’s suspenseful 1953 British crime film Mantrap [Man in Hiding] stars Paul Henreid as a lawyer detective who, helped by his secretary (Kay Kendall), tries to show that a man on the run (Kieron […]
‘What was the shock SIN of… THE UNHOLY FOUR’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1954 Hammer Films / Lippert Films British noir black and white mystery thriller The Stranger Came Home [The Unholy Four] is written by […]
‘Call me a gangster or a mobster… but not a delinquent!’ Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 British black and white noir drama Cosh Boy is quite bad – but with a really good cast, and it […]
‘EXPLODES… in a sinister network of evil!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1954 British film noir crime drama Murder by Proxy [Blackout] stars Dane Clark and Belinda Lee. The story, based on Helen Nielsen’s novel Murder by […]
Robert S Baker and Monty Berman’s twisty 1950 British noir crime drama mystery thriller Blackout stars Dinah Sheridan and Maxwell Reed. This effective short 1950 British black and white support feature from the producer-director Robert S Baker […]