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The super vintage Brit laughter-raisers are on funny form, especially Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips and Eric Sykes, in director Ken Annakin’s zesty, entertaining 1961 wartime-set British black and white comedy Very Important Person [A Coming-Out […]
Co-writer/ director Frank Launder’s solid 1944 British wartime comedy drama from Gainsborough Pictures offers plenty of suspense, wartime atmosphere and detail, and some cheerful humour thrown in as well. It stars the formidable line-up of Phyllis […]
George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]
Based on his autobiography, this is the upsetting and honourable true story about Englishman Eric Lomax, one of thousands of Allied prisoners working like slaves on the construction of the Thai/Burma ‘Death Railway’ during World War […]
Director Jack Lee’s famous 1950 film is deservedly one of the best-loved escape stories of World War Two, with a screenplay by Eric Williams, based on his autobiographical book, originally written under a pseudonym of […]
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