TV Cream
Films: I is for…
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124I Love You, Alice B Toklas!
This Peter Sellers Jewish lawyer dropout comedy counted as satirical once upon a time but just counts as impishly cute now. Sellers...
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141
I Only Arsked
Long running smash hit ITV series The Army Game (1957) was so ubiquitous its film version only had to be called after...
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116
I Was Monty’s Double
Fact is stranger than fiction in this story of how General Montgoonery is shielded by having a double sent in the opposite...
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119
I, Monster
We know what you’re thinking. How does Christopher Lee’s enjoyably atmospheric Amicus reworking of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde link with Dr...
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123
Ice Cold in Alex
Sylvia Sims used to say that she got paid £3,000 for starring in this film at the time but got £75,000 when...
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138
Ice Pirates, The
Shitty ’80s sci-fi spoof with a shitty ’80s sense of humour – space herpes, for God’s sake! Anjelica Huston and Spenser for...
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123
Ice Station Zebra
United in our mind – for no adequately clear reason – in a trio with The Eagle Has Landed and Where Eagles...
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114
Idaho Transfer
Peter Fonda and Keith Carradine hang out in Idaho’s imposingly barren National Park. They think it’s rather super. They gather a bunch...
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155
Impact
From the director of Francis the Talking Mule and starring the bloke who was shite beyond Micklewhite in the first two Quatermass...
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143
In God We Tru$t
Now ensconced in America, Marty Feldman turned at least one of his satirical eyes onto that country’s burgeoning evangelical movement. Feldman plays...
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122
Inchon
Whether or not the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was told by Jesus to fund an epic retelling of this pivotal moment in...
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224
Incredible Journey, The
Apart from furnishing Disneytime with clips that allowed you to go out and get another glass of ginger, there’s nothing much of...
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119
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
“I am Adolf Hitler, you *will* obey me! Hmph!” A lengthy showcase for Michael ‘Bronson’ Sheard’s fourth on-screen outing as the great...
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128
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Of course, our perverse in-house theory that the middle films in trilogies like these are all really great comes hopelessly unstuck with...
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156
Initiation of Sarah, The
A Carrie imitation with Shelley Winters, and possibly the worst title of any film, or even thing, ever.
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168
Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The
Ingrid Bergman runs a chiropodist’s-cum-pub in China, woos Curt Jurgens and spreads The Good Word in this serene period piece. Don’t be...
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132
Inspector Calls, An
Chalk up another one for Sim (surely the star with most appearances in the list) as he plays the eponymous policeman in...
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130
Inspector Clouseau
Of the various lacklustre Pink Panther sequels – save for the good one, A Shot in the Dark – this is undoubtedly...
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128
Intelligence Men, The
Eric and Ernie’s (here as “Ernie Sage”, ho-ho) first cinematic venture, made before they sealed their legend status at the Beeb, has...
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117
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Famously, the original of this was an allegory for communism (well, apparently), reds under the bed and all that, but since that...
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116
Invasion Quartet
Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...
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130
Ipcress File, The
We read Michael Caine’s autobiography years ago when it came out and was big enough news to get him a spot on...
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120
Iron Maiden, The
One of Gerald Thomas’ other films, this 1962 effort concerns an American firm thinking of planning to buy a British made passenger...
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132
Isadora
Vanessa Redgrave certainly puts in the effort, hoof-wise, as titular prancer Isadora Duncan, but Melvyn Bragg’s all over the script like Wayne...
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130
Ishtar
Well, you can’t blame David Puttnam for this one. His predecessor in the job of head of Columbia Pictures, Guy McElwaine, had...
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163
Island at the Top of the World, The
Sinden does Disney, as the irksome Sir Anthony Ross, after his estranged whaling son in a French-built pointy airship, but discovering a...
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161
Island Of Terror
A taut (and especially so around the budgetary purse-strings) little tale from Planet Films (the company which Mancunian Films turned into at...
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161
It’s Always Fair Weather
Would-be sequel to On The Town with three servicemen reuniting in New York for some TV special or other, older but wiser...
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152
It’s a Grand Life
The last of the Mancunian comedies, and fittingly the final vehicle for the corporation’s most charismatic stockholder, Frank Randle. Nothing if not...
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136
It’s Great To Be Young!
John Mills is the music teacher who gets the kids in the orchestra to play that some of the ‘jitterbug’ style modern...