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The 1989 British romantic drama The Rachel Papers with Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye is a reasonably attractive film version of Martin Amis’s funny, bawdy 1973 first novel. Writer-director Damian Harris’s 1989 British romantic drama […]
After putting songs and smiles to Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer in 1973 and Huckleberry Finn in 1974, Reader’s Digest Films try the format on Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop. Director Michael Tuchner’s 1975 Mr […]
Director Michael Truman’s 1964 enthusiastic Children’s Film Foundation short feature Daylight Robbery is all about kids and robbers again. This time they get locked in a store, eventually stopping the raiders tunnelling through the store’s […]
Who killed Ursula Gray? Director Michael Truman’s 1963 British noir mystery thriller Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] stars Ian Hendry and Ronald Fraser, who make an appealing pair of investigators as Inspector […]
Director Joe McGrath’s 1974 comedy The Great McGonagall stars Spike Milligan as the obscure and terrible unemployed 19th-century Scottish poet William McGonagall, married to Mrs McGonagall (Julia Foster), and determined to become Queen Victoria’s poet […]
Director Peter Yates’s delightful, quirky 1965 British comedy One Way Pendulum is a gently but satisfyingly amusing film of N F Simpson’s absurdist play, in which the eccentric Groomkirby family living in the suburbs has […]
A young London policeman and a small-time crook are love rivals, in the 1972 British drama film All Coppers Are… with Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Nicky Henson. The dull, dated film has a terrible […]