Slyly scripted by Alec Coppel and Nicholas Phipps (the latter also playing a role in the film), The Captain’s Paradise casts Alec Guinness as a sea...
Dennis Price, in his best screen role, plays the son of a duke’s daughter and a penniless Italian singer who died at his birth. He vows...
For 200 years, the Baskerville Lords have died horribly on the moors, slaughtered by the “hound of hell.” Sir Henry (Christopher Lee) is the final heir...
Producer Alexander Korda’s fantastical Technicolor delight, inspired by the 15th century tale One Thousand and One Nights, retains its considerable charms 60 years on. Although the...
Dead Of Night is Ealing’s classic portmanteau horror film whose separate stories were linked by a central framing story. It was a format that was to...
Stage Fright, a later British production from Alfred Hitchcock features an outstanding cast. Acting student Jane Wyman’s ex-boyfriend (Richard Todd) has a major dilemma: his mistress,...
Producer Alexander Korda’s fantastical Technicolor delight, inspired by the 15th century tale One Thousand and One Nights, retains its considerable charms even now. Although the film...
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...
Having gently attacked institutions as diverse as the Army ( Private’s Progress ), the Foreign Office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO ) and the legal profession...
In Golden Salamander Trevor Howard was strongly cast as an archaeologist who is sent to North Africa to collect valuable antiques for the luxurious home of...