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Shy People **½ (1987, Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton) – Classic Movie Review 9908

The 1987 Shy People is Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky’s fourth film in the West, following Maria’s Lovers, Runaway Train and Duet for One. It is a semi-successful oddity, and boasts an excellent performance by Jill […]

Jun, 14

Go for a Take [Double Take] * (1972, Reg Varney, Norman Rossington, Patrick Newell, Sue Lloyd, Dennis Price, Julie Ege) – Classic Movie Review 9906

Director Harry Booth’s 1972 British comedy Go for a Take [Double Take] stars Reg Varney from TV’s On the Buses, who goes for a change of pace as Wilfred Stone, a waiter chased by hoods […]

Jun, 13

Car Trouble ** (1986, Julie Walters, Ian Charleson, Vincent Riotta, Stratford Johns, Hazel O’Connor, Dave Hill) – Classic Movie Review 9870

Director David Green’s 1986 Car Trouble is a bizarre, wacky little British comedy of frustration, which tries hard to raise laughs, and sometimes succeeds, and should probably be cherished a little since it comes from […]

Jun, 06

George and Mildred * (1980, Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns, Sheila Fearn, Kenneth Cope, Dudley Sutton, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 9847

Director Peter Frazer-Jones’s 1980 comedy George and Mildred is a fairly dismal film version of the popular British TV comedy show (1976-80) with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, whose anniversary package trip […]

May, 31

Dancin’ Thru the Dark ***½ (1990, Claire Hackett, Ben Murphy, Con O’Neill, Peter Beckett ) – Classic Movie Review 9822

Director Mike Ockrent’s good-natured, warm-hearted 1990 British comedy Dancin’ Thru the Dark stars Claire Hackett as Linda, who is out on a wild hen-night with her hen friends while her fiancé Dave (Conrad Nelson) is […]

May, 26

Is That All There Is? *** (1992, director Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 9807

‘Perfection is not an aim.’ Lindsay Anderson’s entertaining and informative 1992 75-minute autobiographical film for BBC Scotland, Is That All There Is?, is ironically his last film, first shown in 1992 and finally released in […]

May, 23

Dentist on the Job ** (1961, Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9790

In Dentist on the Job [Get On with It], C M Pennington-Richards’s 1961 sequel to 1960’s hit comedy Dentist in the Chair, Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens return to play David Cookson and Brian Dexter, […]

May, 19

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