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John Mortimer’s witty one-act radio, then theatre play about an accused man named Fowle (Richard Attenborough), who is freed of murdering his wife because of his bungling barrister Morgenhall (Peter Sellers), makes a so-so film […]
The 1965 British movie The Secret of My Success stars James Booth as a naïve copper who runs into romantic tangles. Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones and Honor Blackman also star in an episodic black comedy […]
Director Charlton Heston’s 1972 Antony and Cleopatra gives Heston his chance to play Marc Antony in this school-play-type film version of the Shakespearean tragedy. Heston looks noble and is full of enthusiasm but is unsubtle […]
Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]
The 1973 horror mystery thriller film Night Watch is a plush, suspenseful version of Lucille Fletcher’s stage chiller. Elizabeth Taylor is on top hysterical form as a rich wife convinced she has witnessed a murder […]
‘Incredible revelations from the blackest chapters of unholy medicine!’ Director László [Leslie] Kardos’s wonderfully awful and splendidly bizarre 1957 schlock sci-fi-horror classic The Man Who Turned to Stone finds some 300-year-old undead scientists, organised by […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Sidney J Furie’s entertaining 1970 crime drama mystery movie The Lawyer inspired the Seventies TV show Petrocelli, with Barry Newman creating the role of pushy Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer Tony Petrocelli, practising in […]