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Posts Tagged "TV spinoff"
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Inn for Trouble *** (1960, Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Leslie Phillips, Shaun O’Riordan, Ronan O’Casey) – Classic Movie Review 7549
The Larkins ride again in director C M Pennington-Richards’s genial 1960 film Inn for Trouble, a big-screen adaptation of the then current, highly popular Fifties/Sixties British ITV series that ran from 1958 to 1964. Peggy […]
Bless This House *** (1972, Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson, Robin Askwith, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 6881
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1972 British TV spin-off movie from the Thames Television series Bless This House provides a showcase for a treasure trove of British comedy greats, and is valuable and enjoyable for that. Bless […]
Steptoe and Son Ride Again ** (1973, Wilfrid Brambell Harry H Corbett, Diana Dors, Milo O’Shea, Yootha Joyce, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 6880
With the 1972 spin-off film Steptoe and Son of the BBC’s series such a profitable hit, EMI re-teamed the quarrelling father and son rag-and-bone junk yard men in director Peter Sykes’s 1973 sequel with a new […]
Steptoe and Son *** (1972, Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Arthur Howard, Victor Maddern, Mike Reid, Barrie Ingham, Queenie Watts) – Classic Movie Review 6879
The TV stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett successfully re-create their delightful performances as Steptoe and Son and there is some funny writing from television creator-writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, re-working material they […]
Mutiny on the Buses * (1972, Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 6878
Director Harry Booth’s saucy slice-of-life 1972 British comedy is the middle film in the 1969 to 1973 ITV show film spinoff series, following 1971’s On the Buses. It tries its best, and there are a few […]
Life in Emergency Ward 10 ** (1959, Charles Tingwell, Michael Craig, Wilfrid Hyde White, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Owen, Rosemary Miller, Frederick Bartman, Joan Sims, Pauline Stroud) – Classic Movie Review 5745
Director Robert Day’s 1959 cinema spin-off film of Britain’s first twice-weekly TV serial Emergency Ward 10, which ran for 10 years between 1957 and 1967, has enormous nostalgia value. Re-creating his TV role, Aussie heart-throb […]
Baywatch * (2017, Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Kelly Rohrbach, Alexandra Daddario) – Movie Review
Dwayne Johnson stars as hard-man lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, who clashes with brash, conceited new beach boy recruit Matt Brody (Zac Efron). But then together they uncover a criminal plot by drugs villainess Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra). Yes […]