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Director Eugène Lourié’s endearing 1961 British sci-fi horror thriller Gorgo is quite a lot of fun even if it is fairly low on quality or surprises, but it comes with some complex and costly special […]
Director Orson Welles plays Mr Charles Clay, a rich Portuguese merchant in 19th-century Macao, who tells his clerk Levinsky (Roger Coggio) a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor […]
Walt Disney’s thrilling, double Oscar-winning 1954 film version of the famous Jules Verne classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is one of the best of its sci-fi adventure type. Director Richard Fleischer’s thrilling, double […]
French movie director Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical follow-up to his 1964 Cannes Palme d’or-winning hit The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] is another devastatingly charming, light-hearted, carefree operetta. It is overloaded with energy, dynamism and […]
Co-writer/director Val Guest’s 1958 British naval farce Up the Creek is creakily written but it is rescued from sinking by some amusing gags and situations, but mainly by the performances, especially from Peter Sellers proving […]
Robin Williams makes his star movie début in director Robert Altman’s ludicrously underrated, under-patronised and undervalued 1980 live-action version of the E C Segar cartoon. Williams and Shelley Duvall are just perfect as the spinach-eating […]
Director Jules Dassin’s 1949 American film noir thriller is still fresh and knife-edge exciting. Richard Conte stars as Nico ‘Nick’ Garcos, a sailor war-veteran who joins a trucking business as a truck driver. When he […]