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Some People *** (1962, Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, Anneke Wills, David Andrews, Angela Douglas, David Hemmings, Harry H Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 7763

Director Clive Donner’s 1962 British drama stars Kenneth More as choirmaster Mr Smith who helps bored Bristol teenage tearaways Johnnie, Bill and Bert (Ray Brooks, David Andrews, David Hemmings) to get back on their feet […]

Nov, 08

The Comedy Man *** (1964, Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington, Angela Douglas, Edmund Purdom, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 7761

The 1964 British drama film The Comedy Man tells a backstage showbiz story about TV deodorant adverts finally making a star out of ageing, seedy actor Chick Byrd (Kenneth More).  Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1964 British […]

Nov, 07

Song of Norway ** (1970, Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad, Christina Schollin) – Classic Movie Review 7748

The 1944 Broadway hit stage show by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran, Song of Norway, is brought to the screen by producer-director Andrew L Stone in 1970 with 70 mm 6-Track Stereo, Panavision 70, De Luxe colour and […]

Nov, 03

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall *** (1973, Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 7709

‘After Young Winston – Young Milligan!’ Director Norman Cohen’s sometimes amusing 1973 comedy Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is based on the entertaining novel of the great and good legendary comic Spike Milligan. […]

Oct, 27

The Boys *** (1962, Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) – Classic Movie Review 7581

Director Sidney J Furie’s inventive direction and some then fresh faces (Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) are the main pleasures of the interesting youth-oriented 1962 British courtroom drama The Boys, which was […]

Sep, 16

Inn for Trouble *** (1960, Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Leslie Phillips, Shaun O’Riordan, Ronan O’Casey) – Classic Movie Review 7549

The Larkins ride again in director C M Pennington-Richards’s genial 1960 film Inn for Trouble, a big-screen adaptation of the then current, highly popular Fifties/Sixties British ITV series that ran from 1958 to 1964. Peggy […]

Sep, 06

Waltz of the Toreadors ** (1962, Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 7434

Jean Anouilh’s French farce Waltz of the Toreadors is filmed in Britain in 1962 by director John Guillermin as a vehicle for Peter Sellers playing a lecherous old general, Gen Leo Fitzjohn, who retires to his Sussex […]

Aug, 12

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