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Director Sonnie Hale’s 1938 British romantic musical comedy Sailing Along is a sweet showcase for his wife Jessie Matthews. It is the third and last of their films together as director and star, following Head […]
Director Philip Brandon’s 1943 morale-boosting musical We’ll Meet Again provides a rare film role for British wartime singing sensation Vera Lynn, using the title of her most famous song. It is her film debut in […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1963 crime drama A Place to Go is a good and gritty account of the seamy side of East London’s petty-crime underworld, with Sixties pop star Mike Sarne (‘Come Outside’) as the […]
The 62-minute 1979 London Weekend Television TV movie The Old Crowd was considered a failure. It was awaited with great expectation as a collaboration between writer Alan Bennett and director Lindsay Anderson, but was dismissed […]
Director Richard Eyre’s intelligent and well-observed 1983 political British drama film The Ploughman’s Lunch stars Jonathan Pryce, who is creepy and convincing as James Penfield, an egotistical radio journalist, who writes a book on Suez […]
Four formidable British comedy stalwart ladies – Peggy Mount, Miriam Karlin, Avril Elgar and Dandy Nichols – head the superb Sixties British comic cast of director C M Pennington-Richards’s fairly amusing 1963 farcical comedy Ladies […]
American star Denzel Washington comes to the UK to play a working-class soldier from an inner London council estate in Brixton, who, on his return from the Falklands War, finds that nobody wants to give […]