Genevieve is the most
quintessential of British comedies, a quaint satire in which an
Englishman’s love of his motorcar precedes any
feelings he may have for a woman... [More...]
The first and best in the series of film adaptations of Richard
Gordon’s Doctor novels
benefits from the teaming of 1950s heartthrob Dirk Bogarde with Kenneth
More and Donald Sinden and a script which offers clean... [More...]
Although somewhat dated by its modest production values and whiff of
1950s-style melodrama, Reach for the
Sky still manages to hit the mark with its inspiring portrait of
one man’s determination to overcome adversity... [More...]
The story of the Titanic
disaster has been told many times in the cinema, but never with the
authority, realism and poignancy of A
Night to Remember... [More...]
Towards the end of his remarkable career, the American filmmaker William Wyler showed
a late flourishing of brilliance, evidenced by the lavish epic Ben-Hur (1959) and this
comparatively modest adaptation of an early... [More...]
With its star-studded cast and a budget of $12 million, this epic
account of one of the most important chapters in British military
history deserves to be a great film and a fitting tribute to those few
who did so much... [More...]
