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‘John Steinbeck’s story of your kind of courage…that freedom-loving spirit…which cannot be conquered by treachery or ruled by terror! Told in today’s greatest drama…brought unforgettably to the screen’. Director Irving Pichel’s 1943 The Moon Is […]
Pierce Brosnan takes time out from playing James Bond and finds good work as a vulcanologist called Dr Harry Dalton, who arrives at the ‘most desirable’ fictional American countryside town of Dante’s Peak only to […]
Director Walter Forde’s cheerful 1943 British black and white wartime comedy It’s That Man Again is the film of the anarchic radio show by Ted Kavanagh, and stars Tommy Handley, Jack Train and Greta Gynt. […]
The White Bus is a humorous, flavourful and poignant 1967 46-minute short film directed by Lindsay Anderson, now a time capsule. In it, Patricia Healey plays The Girl, who leaves depressive London on a train […]
‘BUCK UP! LOOK UP! CHEER UP!… SING!’ Director Lewis Milestone’s 1933 Hallelujah I’m a Bum had to be urgently retitled Hallelujah I’m a Tramp in the UK, where it was released in a version where […]
Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]
The great, droll French comic Fernandel again greatly amuses as the eccentric small-village Italian Roman Catholic priest Don Camillo, who this time tries to prevent his friendly opponent, Giuseppe ‘Peppone’ Bottazzi (Gino Cervi), the little […]