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A Chorus Line is one of the greatest of all Broadway musicals, as well as one of the longest runners of all time) and unexpected director Richard Attenborough’s 1985 movie version is pleasingly entertaining. The show […]
For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]
Director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1959 comedy I’m All Right Jack showcases one of Peter Sellers’s all-time greatest performances as the canny but blinkered and blustering union boss, shop steward Fred Kite, who […]
Co-writer/director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1956 vintage British comedy Private’s Progress stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and William Hartnell. The Boulting Brothers take the risk of sending up the then […]
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. […]
The 1962 British comedy classic Only Two Can Play stars Peter Sellers on his finest comic form as the lecherous librarian John Lewis, in a funny and pleasingly playful film of Kingsley Amis’s novel That […]
Noël Coward’s inspired 1942 moral-boosting war movie In Which We Serve is a polished gem that comes only from a true labour of love. ‘This is the story of a ship…’ Noël Coward’s inspired 1942 […]