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Writer-director John Gilling’s bright and jolly 1963 Hammer Films period adventure movie The Scarlet Blade stars a dashing young Oliver Reed, who grabs his turn to swash an athletic buckle as the star of producer […]
Alastair Sim returns as St Trinian’s headmistress Miss Millicent Frinton, though alas appears in only two scenes, put out of action tied up in the school belfry, so the English gym-slipped schoolgirls can head off for […]
Producer-director Jay Lewis’s 1956 British comedy is a cheery and fast-moving if dated Fifties caper about a boatload of jovial Royal Navy sailors who have shore leave in Naples. After a brawl, one of them wakes […]
Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s 1968 children’s movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stars Dick Van Dyke as Edwardian inventor Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as his fiancée Truly Scrumptious, who whizz off in their flying, […]
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 13th film from 1982 provided his penultimate movie, as his directorial career came to an all too early end. The outstanding cast of David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith and Lionel Jeffries […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 portrait of the artist offered Kirk Douglas one of his three chances to win an Oscar but in the event he never won and had to be content with an honorary […]
South Pacific and Paint Your Wagon director Joshua Logan turns the pleasantly tuneful and rather splendid Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) musical about life and loves at the court of King Arthur […]