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Writer-director Cy Endfield’s 1957 British film noir crime drama Hell Drivers stars Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Stanley Baker celebrates his first lead role by giving one of his best tough-guy turns as Joe ‘Tom’ Yateley, a one-time […]
The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]
Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]
Ealing Studios’ 1945 British thriller film Pink String and Sealing Wax, set in 1880s Victorian Brighton, is most atmospheric and entertaining. Googie Withers stars as Pearl Bond, the scheming, adulterous wife of a pub owner […]
Producer-director Jay Lewis’s 1956 British comedy is a cheery and fast-moving if dated Fifties caper about a boatload of jovial Royal Navy sailors who have shore leave in Naples. After a brawl, one of them wakes […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s modishly stylish 1965 spy thriller The Ipcress File showcases Michael Caine, who gives one of his most famous, iconic Sixties performances as bespectacled Cockney secret agent Harry Palmer. It was immensely […]
The 1962 remake of MGM’s 1935 classic film Mutiny on the Bounty is a lumbering adventure epic version of the famous story. It was nominated for seven Oscars but there were no wins. Director Lewis […]