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Director William Beaudine’s 1935 British public school (ie private school) comedy is a vintage treat, with the first screen appearance of Will Hay in his famous schoolmaster role. The satirical writings of J B Morton […]
Now a fully English speaking talking ape, chimp leader Caesar (Andy Serkis) and the apes he commands are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of rebel humans led by the viciously ruthless Colonel […]
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s intense, realistic and enjoyable 1978 all-star British blood-and-guts war adventure movie The Wild Geese stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger as Colonel Allen Faulkener, Lieutenant Shawn Fynn […]
Director Michael Mann’s admired 1992 period adventure movie solidly remakes the 1936 original sound version of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel of the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans with Randolph Scott and Binnie Barnes. […]
Director Don Sharp’s extremely entertaining 1978 third film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps finds its purpose in that it is finally a movie that is faithful to the book and its pre-First World […]
An acting battle royal between theatrical knights Sir Alec Guinness (in a peculiar red wig) and Sir John Mills is the cornerstone of director Ronald Neame’s engrossing 1960 British military drama Tunes of Glory, with […]
In his final film, director John Sturges’s manly 1976 good, old-fashioned, big-budget wartime adventure thriller movie is based on Jack Higgins’s best-selling novel, set in 1943. It has an eccentric, often miscast all-star roster of players, including […]