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‘All Aboard for a Non-Stop Ride of Fun!’ Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1954 British black and white crime comedy film The Runaway Bus stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark and George Coulouris. London’s Heathrow Airport […]
Italian idol Marcello Mastroianni came to Britain to play the Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno, a poor but sexy Soviet noble, in director Christopher Morahan’s weird 1968 Swinging Sixties heist caper comedy Diamonds for Breakfast. […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1960 French Riviera black and white caper movie Seven Thieves stars Edward G Robinson as old reprobate professor Theo Wilkins, who leads a gang of thieves in a cleverly constructed plot to […]
Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]
Director Eric Till’s 1968 Hot Millions is a cute, likeable and appealing comedy with a double score for Peter Ustinov – a delightful performance as a confidence trickster, paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton, and an […]
Director Peter Yates’s thoroughly enjoyable and entirely amusing 1972 comedy thriller heist caper yarn The Hot Rock [How to Steal a Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons] stars Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, […]
Director Michael Winner’s 1967 British comedy The Jokers stars Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed as unlikely siblings, the Tremayne brothers, who, just for a lark and to make themselves famous, plan to rob Her Majesty […]