Car-racing drama starring Stanley Baker as the agent of an auto industrialist (James Robertson Justice), who is sent to Italy to lure an Italian designer away...
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...
Although the film took four years to complete and members of the crew were often sent home suffering from frostbite, John Mills described working on Scott...
Producer William MacQuitty spent several years in the Navy and his love of all things nautical -submarines in particular – inspired him to make the action-packed...
Michael Craig, newly called to the Bar, is briefed to plead with pathetic Brenda De Banzie who wishes to have her conjugal rights with Ron Moody....
‘Yet Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind,’ wrote Byron and his words were taken as the motto for...
Raising The Wind, a winner from the Carry On stable, boasts a cast of familiar British comic actors and a surprisingly sharp screenplay by composer Bruce...
In the 50s, Hollywood developed a penchant for biblical tales, including King of Kings , The Ten Commandments and Quo Vadis. Henry King’s somewhat forgotten film...
Under the steady hand of Ralph Thomas, who directed the other Doctor… films, Dr Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) returns to St Swithins in Doctor in Distress...
Captain Horatio Hornblower was a straightforward naval adventure, based on three novels by C. S. Forester, about the heroic 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with...
The story of wartime heroics is told in flashback by eminent scientist Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice) when he appears on a This Is Your...
The Guns of Navarone was a fine war movie with an all-star cast and a gripping plot based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team...
Stirring adventure yarn Storm Over The Nile adapted from The Four Feathers , AEW Mason’s tale of honour, redemption and derring-do set during the British Army’s 1898 campaign...
Here’s a chance to see how Heathrow looked in the ’50s… Michael Relph and Basil Dearden’s first class Ealing drama Out of the Clouds follows the...