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Director Jim Clark’s leeringly smutty 1970 British comedy Every Home Should Have One [Think Dirty] stars the unique, irreplaceable Marty Feldman, and wastes the talents of some much subtler comedic actors (Shelley Berman, Judy Cornwell, […]
Professor James Houghland: ‘I thought that television should be something more than just another form of amusement.’ Director Clifford Sanforth’s 1935 low-budget old B-feature thriller Murder by Television [The Houghland Murder Case] stars Bela Lugosi, […]
Director Hal Walker’s 1950 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy sequel My Friend Irma Goes West stars John Lund, Diana Lynn, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Daft orange juice stand worker duo Steve and […]
‘A Devil-May-Care Joker From Ealing Studios’: Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953). Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British black and white Ealing Studios satirical fantasy comedy Meet Mr Lucifer stars Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling and Barbara […]
Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal give perhaps the best performances of their careers in producer-director Elia Kazan’s memorable protest movie about the manipulation of the public by the media, the 1957 black and white drama […]
Director A Edward Sutherland’s hilarious, ramshackle 1933 comedy film International House stars W C Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin, and George Burns and Gracie Allen, and is released by Paramount Pictures as […]
Director Franco Brusati’s 1974 Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] stars Nino Manfredi as Nino Garofoli, an Italian waiter who quits his home in Sicily for a better life in Switzerland, where, alas, he is […]