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Director Michael Curtiz’s likeable but insubstantial 1955 Technicolor comedy, crime, romance movie We’re No Angels is cosy, kind-hearted, larkish entertainment, motoring almost entirely on its considerable star appeal. Humphrey Bogart plays Joseph, a prisoner who escapes at […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s delightful 1950 black and white original comedy is so much better than the 1991 remake with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. Spencer Tracy stars as the proud but grumpy old father Stanley […]
Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s perennially enchanting classic yarn is splendidly romantic, atmospheric and rousing. It stars the lustrous Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the […]
Writer-director David Swift’s inventive and amusing 1961 Walt Disney live-action comedy-adventure The Parent Trap tells the story of twin sisters who meet for the first time on a summer holiday and decide to try to […]
Jack Arnold’s fondly regarded 1955 monster movie Tarantula is one of the key Fifties chillers, celebrated in Richard O’Brien’s musical The Rocky Horror Show: ‘I knew Leo G Carroll was over a barrel when Tarantula […]
Director Edwin L Marin’s treasured antique American 1938 production of the Charles Dickens Christmas favourite A Christmas Carol is just right – warm, cosy and comforting. With a short running time of 70 minutes, it […]