Period drama The Curse Of King Tutankhamun’s Tomb took us back to 1922 when Howard Carter (Robin Ellis) discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamun soon strange...
In period BBC drama serial All Passion Spent, based on the novel by Vita Sackville West, Lord Slane is dead. After a lifetime spent supporting his...
In this superb movie version companion to the ITV series of Man at the Top Joe Lampton is given a high profile job by Lord Ackerman...
Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham and Thora Hird feature in Michael Winner’s pointless prequel to Henry James’ ‘The Turn Of The Screw’. Occasionally lurid but generally lame...
In his last TV series, recorded just weeks before he died, Arthur Lowe played a maths teacher in a 1940’s prep school who was obsessed with...
The year is 1942 and, almost inevitably for the period, the star is Captain John Mills, commander of a motor ambulance convoy, who finds himself cut...
‘I never make a war film without two things,’ director Terence Young explained in 1967. ‘A clause in my contract guaranteeing that the producers won’t tamper...
After making a number of fine films based on good, yet hardly classic novels, John Huston decided to tackle ‘the big one,’ Herman Melville’s monumental classic...
A deluxe version of Agatha Christie’s favorite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her ‘Murder on the Orient Express.’ Set aboard a...
In this tongue-in-cheek pop art meets the Avenger’s-esque espionage flick glamorous Modesty Blaise is called in by HM Government to protect a consignment of diamonds destined...
British captain Michael Caine leads a band of mercenaries into the North African desert to blow up an oil depot behind enemy lines, and must contend...
In the tongue in cheek horror Theatre of Blood Vincent Price portrays a Shakespearean actor who gets even with eight critics, who have all panned his...
A year after starring in his most memorable film, Shane, American actor Alan Ladd appeared in a number of British films. The most unlikely sounding –...
Terence Rattigan made a witty screen adaptation of his stage success Who Is Sylvia? which Harold French and a prime British cast turned into what Variety...
Period drama series Clayhanger, based on a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, told stories of two generations of a 19th century Potteries family. This mammoth...