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Alain Resnais meets Alan Ayckbourn for the 1993 French comedy film Smoking. For the 1993 French comedy film Smoking / No Smoking, director Alain Resnais adapts Alan Ayckbourn’s play Intimate Exchanges (a series of eight […]
Director Stephen Frears’s 1972 nostalgic drama A Day Out is Alan Bennett’s debut play for television – a lovely, gentle, idyllic film, shot in black and white, about a Yorkshire cycling club’s Sunday outing from […]
Director Lance Comfort’s 1943 comedy When We Are Married is a very welcome film version of the appealing 1938 J B Priestley English Northcountry play about three sanctimoniously respectable Victorian silver wedding couples – The […]
Director Alan Clarke’s 1987 drama Rita, Sue and Bob Too is an unattractive sex comedy about two Bradford schoolgirls, Rita and Sue (Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes), who fall for and have a sexual fling with […]
Fans of the BBC TV series will be surprised to find All Creatures Great and Small has a different cast for the 1975 film version, with Simon Ward as nice young assistant vet James Herriot, […]
Fine acting and good screen-writing are showcased in the highly competent, convincing and appealing 1937 black and white drama film South Riding from producer Alexander Korda and director Victor Saville, who takes it very briskly […]
‘Three Daring Adventurers! Clever enough to outsmart a town… brave enough to save it!’ Director Charles Jarrott’s impeccable 1976 family drama Escape from the Dark [The Littlest Horse Thieves] is based on Rosemary Anne Sisson’s […]