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Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British comedy vehicle for loveable rogue comics Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt is unmissable for their many fans. Hay stars as Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, and Marriott and Moffatt […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 movie brings Yul Brynner’s welcome return as hired gun Chris Adams in this acceptable but less magnificent sequel to perhaps everybody’s favourite Western, The Magnificent Seven (1960). The trouble is that […]
Boys from rival French villages wage war on each other, led by André Treton and Michel Isella, cutting off their prisoner’s buttons and belts. Director Yves Robert’s 1962 French film is an engagingly acted comedy […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]
Steamy Faith Domergue stars as the femme fatale from Corsica, Colomba della Rabia, who sets out to avenge herself on the family’s murderous opponents who killed her father. In her avowed murderous task, she is […]
Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1943 British classic for Ealing Studios stars Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton and Basil Sydney. It is a most compelling film of Graham Greene’s famous wartime warning fantasy story (The Lieutenant […]
Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]