Solid espionage caper Arabesque has David Pollock (Gregory Peck), an American hieroglyphics professor visiting Oxford, agreeing to decipher a secret message — the contents of which...
Randolph Scott takes the lead in Westbound, a Western that unusually stakes its colours to the Union, rather than Confederate, side of the fence. Scott is...
In The Silent Enemy Lithuanian-born Laurence Harvey (born Larushka Mischa Skikne) stars as the real-life British navy frogman Lieutenant Crabb, whose Second World War exploits against...
Cavalier romantic thriller The Moonraker is essentially the Scarlet Pimpernel set across the Channel in 1651. George Baker plays the eponymous hero, beating off the Roundhead...
Set in a Japanese POW camp towards the end of the Second World War, writer/director Bryan Forbes’ adaptation of James Clavell’s notorious, experience-based best-seller King Rat...
In The Anniversary Domineering one-eyed widow Taggart (Bette Davis) makes sure her three sons, Terry (Jack Hedley), Henry (James Cossins) and Tom (Christian Roberts), stay within...
With Salome Columbia’s Harry Cohn wanted to make a Biblical epic to rival such movies as Cecil B deMille’s Samson And Delilah: and director William Dieterle...
Flamboyant Gainsborough melodrama Jassy was firmly in the tradition of the genre of British costume pictures exemplified by such films as The Man in Grey and...
In Little Nicky Satan (Harvey Keitel), despite being in the job 10,000 years, announces he’s not ready for retirement just yet, infuriating his older sons Adrian...
In A Month By The Lake for the past 16 years the prim Miss Bentley (Vanessa Redgrave) has been spending her summer holidays by the shores...