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‘It happens beyond madness – where your mind won’t believe what your eyes see.’ The follow-up to Vault of Horror (1973), director Freddie Francis’s 1973 all-star British horror movie is a shaky Amicus portmanteau film […]
Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]
Director Michael Truman’s very minor 1955 Ealing Studios comedy Touch and Go is patchy but mildly funny and pleasant enough. The film failed to charm the critics or the public and is not regarded as […]
Re-creating his role from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent classic, Ivor Novello plays a mysterious stranger who may, or may not, be a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer, in the 1932 British film The Lodger. Ivor […]
Cy Endfield’s thrillingly staged 1964 real-life historical action adventure movie Zulu is a much-loved, bona fide British classic of the era. Michael Caine is cast against type as an offhand aristocratic officer in the film […]
For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]
Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]