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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]
‘It’s the picture about that bone-chilling HOWL!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1959 vintage horror mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles is based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock […]
Ealing Studios’ 1955 black comedy crime film delight The Ladykillers is a deliciously funny film throughout, with Alec Guinness leading a cast to die for. Bafta-winning writer William Rose dreamed the entire film. Packed with […]
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