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The perfect crime goes astray- like it always does in the movies – in director Cliff Owen’s 1961 realist British noir thriller starring Stanley Baker as Turpin, a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on […]
Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson and Susan George spark the drama in the smart British 1975 romantic triangle film Out of Season, set in an English winter resort. Director Alan Bridges’s smart, sensitive and atmospheric but […]
Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1972 movie is an interesting but uncomfortable mix of comedy, drama, romance, sentiment and seriousness, loosely based on James Thurber’s writings and drawings. Jack Lemmon plays Peter Wilson, a cartoonist going blind, […]
Director Mary McMurray’s tender and poignant 1985 drama brings back Deborah Kerr to the cinema after a 16-year layoff (since The Arrangement in 1969) as Englishwoman Helen, an ex-Raj widow who returns to England and the […]
Director Gerd Oswald’s 1971 golden years comedy pairs Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine as penniless widow granny Bunny O’Hare and old thief Billy Green, who team up to rob banks like antique hippy, motor-biking Robin Hoods! […]
Director Tobe Hooper’s scintillating 1974 film début proper (following 1969’s experimental Eggshells) ranks as one of the most shocking and powerful horror films ever made and is a horror movie game changer. Based on the true […]
Director Michael Hoffman’s 1982 British film tells an old-fashioned, 1960s-style story of an egocentric actor and is an odd choice in 1982 for a feature film made by an amateur cast and crew from Oxford […]