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Director Walter Forde’s 1940 drag comedy Charley’s (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a fast-moving, high-spirited and funny reworking of the classic Brandon Thomas stage farce Charley’s Aunt to suit the talents of Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham […]
The 1992 Australian heart-warmer Strictly Ballroom started life as a play, but director Baz Luhrmann recreates it cinematically, swirling you along and sending you away dancing. Take a bit of David and Goliath, a bit […]
Tess in 1979 was the final film directed by Roman Polanski for seven years until his 1986 swashbuckler pirate movie Pirates. Roman Polanski’s rollicking 1986 pirate romp Pirates boasts a jolly performance by Walter Matthau […]
Director Jonathan Miller’s 1970 Take a Girl Like You is based on the novel by Kingsley Amis, and stars Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison, so there is plenty of guaranteed interest in the […]
Director Marcel Carné’s 1937 French pre-war classic Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] is a marvellously funny and brilliantly inventive black comedy, taken at a breathlessly fast slapstick lick. It is graced with stupendous performances by […]
Alec Guinness stars in director Peter Glenville’s 1966 British comedy Hotel Paradiso as mild Benedict Boniface, who wants to have a fling with his lovely neighbour Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida). She is being neglected by […]
Director Otto Preminger’s lush 1945 black and white costume drama A Royal Scandal [Czarina], with more than a few splashes of humour, stars Tallulah Bankhead as 18th century Russian queen Catherine the Great who shows […]