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Doctor in Clover ** (1966, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, Joan Sims, John Fraser, Arthur Haynes, Fenella Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 3143

The sixth Doctor film from 1966 has some very rough edges, and plays without series star Dirk Bogarde but with Leslie Phillips as the main star instead, which is not the same thing at all. […]

Dec, 09

The Pickwick Papers **** (1952, James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Gingold, Kathleen Harrison, Alexander Gauge, Joyce Grenfell, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 2796

Writer-director Noel Langley conscientiously works Charles Dickens’s novel over as a jolly 1952 British comedy film. It offers a big fat star part as Mr Pickwick that might have been tailor-made in the first place […]

Aug, 09

Dance Hall **** (1950, Donald Houston, Bonar Colleano, Petula Clark, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 1660

The music of Ted Heath and Geraldo and their bands helps to bring plenty of Fifties atmosphere and retro chic to director Charles Crichton’s underrated 1950 Ealing Studios episodic comedy romantic drama Dance Hall about four […]

Sep, 10

Hue and Cry ***** (1947, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 1653

Director Charles Crichton’s 1947 Hue and Cry is notable and historically important as the first of the Ealing comedies, leading the way for Britain’s Ealing Studios classics of the late Forties and Fifties. But Crichton’s splendid comedy adventure […]

Sep, 08

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