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‘Warner-Pathe Cordially Invite You To Go to Blazes.’ Director Michael Truman’s 1962 happy, fun British comedy Go to Blazes stars Dave King, Daniel Massey and Norman Rossington as Bernard, Harry and Alfie, three incompetent crooks […]
Producer-director Mario Zampi’s eager-to-please 1957 British black and white comedy The Naked Truth [Your Past Is Showing] is a minor but definite vintage pleasure. A broad, mostly successful black farce, it is based on […]
Malcolm Muggeridge came up with the idea for the Boulting Brothers’ thoughtful and entertaining 1963 satirical comedy film Heavens Above! Peter Sellers tickles the funny bone even in a largely serious performance as the Rev […]
Co-writer/co-director Roy Boulting and his producer brother John Boulting turn their attention to sending up the British Foreign Office in 1959 in another one of their series of highly successful satirical comedies of the period. […]
The Boulting Brothers’ spirited 1957 British comedy film Brothers in Law sends up the UK legal profession. It is based on the 1955 novel by Henry Cecil, and stars Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas. […]
Producer/director Herbert Wilcox’s involving and diverting 1952 British movie version of E C Bentley’s classic 1913 detective novel Trent’s Last Case is made efficiently and briskly, but in basic fashion and without much particular style or […]
Writer-director Anthony Asquith delivers a beautifully graceful movie version of Oscar Wilde’s greatest work. He has the most polished and perfect cast at his disposal in this much revered, impeccably staged 1952 British classic high […]