With a script as witty, light and frothy as the acting, Miranda lifted a potentially leaden fantasy into the realms of a popular comedy of the 40s that...
Braveheart without the budget is one way of seeing Siege of the Saxons, which played on the world’s fears of invasion borne out of the Cuban Missile...
James Coburn made his second big-screen appearance in this tense Western directed by documentarist-turned-filmmaker Paul Wendkos. Fred MacMurray ( Double Indemnity , The Apartment ) stars...
As The Times put it, ‘Story and style coalesce into a unique fairy tale,’ in this mannerist wonder of chilling Freudian allegory – ‘the closest a...
‘Honey – a pure honey… I think you will agree with me this is the most delightful British comedy in years,’ wrote the Sunday Express of...
Alfred Hitchcock once told François Truffaut that the first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much ‘is the work of a talented amateur and the second was...
The corrupting influence of power is the overriding theme of politically motivated drama Fame is the Spur that could be taken as a screen biography of...
Born Free is the true story of George (Bill Travers) and Joy (Virginia McKenna) Adamson, game wardens in Kenya, who rescue a young abandoned lion cub that...
Peeping Tom was reviled on release, destroying the career of one of Britain’s most distinguished directors, but has been judged in retrospect as an essential and influential...
Regularly voted the best comedy of all time, Billy Wilder’s film Some Like It Hot is among the handful of films that genuinely deserves the sobriquet ‘classic’. Jack...