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The 1980 British film Look Back in Anger stars Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and is directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne’s classic play, […]
Charlotte Brontë probably would not have liked director Delbert Mann’s smooth and glossy 1970 American TV version of Jane Eyre, which was released in cinemas worldwide. It is just too smooth and glossy. It won […]
The 1942 essay film Listen to Britain is a rousing classic wartime documentary short from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings, embodying the recorded sounds of vignettes in the nation’s life, as civilians struggle with surviving […]
Rex Harrison’s Doctor Dolittle talked to the animals while the cinemas remained half empty and the 20th Century Fox studio nearly went bust. Director Richard Fleischer’s 1967 Doctor Dolittle is an extravagantly produced, beautiful looking […]
Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]
Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 Tamahine is a fusty, mild, old-style romantic comedy with plenty of routine, school-set and culture-clash laughs, based on the novel by Thelma Nicklaus. But it rolls along pleasantly and humorously, though […]
Director Walter Forde’s 1949 British black and white comedy Cardboard Cavalier stars the popular stage and vaudeville actor Sid Field, who is on good form in his third and last starring extravaganza, following his debut […]