TV Cream
Films: N-Z
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23410 Rillington Place
Adapted from Ludovic Kennedy’s splendid book and featuring Sir Lord Richard of Attenborough’s best performance. The true story of a man –...
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1941
Post-Jaws and Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg emerged fresh from having ‘Wunderkind’ installed as a middle name to tackle a genre for which...
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189
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“Gooooot a whale of a tale to tell you lads, a whale of a tale or two-oo…” Kirk ‘snails’ Douglas steals the...
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200 Motels
Fresh from his yak-toting cameo in Head, Frank Zappa made this gorggy orgy of groupies, frogs and horses, and suddenly the Monkees...
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155
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Once you get beyond the opening Pig in the Poke sequence – and that’s only worth watching because of the Blessed John...
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133
National Lampoon’s Movie Madness
Let’s put our sneaking affection for Chevy Chase aside for a moment and admit it – National Lampoon is rubbish, isn’t it?...
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147
National Lampoon’s Vacation
First – and, meaningless statement ahoy, best! – of Chevy Chase’s one-joke family road trips. That said, there’s still little to recommend...
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Network
Peter Finch has a mid-life crisis because he works in American telly and it’s all rubbish. Another of those films we keep...
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Never Say Never Again
‘Unofficial’ but still rather dull legal-loophole rehash of the not-that-good anyway Thunderball. There’s a bit of fun to be had with unfamiliar...
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Never Too Young To Rock
The best movie release of glam rock's annus mirrorballis of 1975 was this delirious sci-fi oddity.
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146
New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking, The
Well, this gives us the measure of Columbia Pictures boss David Puttnam’s commitment to ‘family’ cinema. A Swedish co-prroduction based on the...
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187
New York, New York
So bad they re-edited it twice. Martin Scorsese manfully attempted to revive the golden age of the Hollywood musical with a knockabout...
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153
Night at the Opera, A
The Marx Brothers’ first MGM effort, derided by the dafter variety of Marx fan for the admittedly strenuous dramatic plot imposed by...
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Night of the Comet
Once again, everyone save a few well-sheltered Californian teens and sinister boffins have been wiped out by the titular celestial encounter (they...
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Night of the Demon
Directed by Jacques Tourneur with input from Ken ‘too many monitors’ Adam, this might have a none-too-great lead in Dana ‘confirmed alcoholic’...
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Night of the Eagle
Professor Peter Wyngarde destroys his wife’s occultish trinkets, with predictable ramifications. Odd horror from Anglo-Amalgamated, more usually at home with the black...
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Night Of The Following Day, The
It’s Brando again, clad head to toe in slimming black and heading up a bungled attempt to kidnap Pamela Franklin, while Rita...
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143
Night to Remember, A
The proper Titanic film, of course, in which Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum, Geoffrey ‘Catweazle’ Bayldon, Bee ‘are you...
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130
Night Train To Murder
Atoll K. Love Happy. Kook’s Tour. The history of comedy acts is littered with sad, misbegotten career sign-offs, and this Morecambe and...
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Night Train To Terror
With British portmanteau horror films down and out, the Americans somehow kept going, producing average stuff like Cat’s Eye (1985) and the...
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140
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Can we take this for granted, with your eyes over us? In this place, this wintry home, John Hurt knows there’s always...
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144
Ninth Configuration, The
Written, directed and produced by William Peter Blatty of Exorcist fame, this stars Stacey ‘Hammer’ Keach as a psychiatrist who comes to...
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No Blade Of Grass
Actor Cornel Wilde mans the camera for this adaptation of John ‘Tripods’ Christopher’s grain shortage apocalypse, with Nigel Davenport leaving a doomed...
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140
No Highway
Metal fatigue on planes is the subject, but never mind that, feel the un-Hollywood quality of the characters’ names in this Nevil...
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154
No Sex Please – We’re British
Not really very good farce with a load of bum books being sent to a Barclays Bank by mistake (Barclays Bank, rhyming...
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154
No Way Out
Top Oz director Roger Donaldson warmed up for his US big break (Cocktail, of course) with this Pentagon thriller starring not only...
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No.1 of the Secret Service
In 1976 James Bond was at the centre of a high-profile legal battle between franchise owner Cubby Broccoli and writer Kevin McClory,...
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145
North By Northwest
“Good ever-ning.” Ah, Alfie! The highbrow’s lowbrow, as hilariously studied by many a French film scholar, his every MacGuffin and mise-en-scene pulled...
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Nosferatu
Typically downbeat, slow and very, very long Werner Herzog treatment of the familiar silent Shreckfest, with Klaus Kinski as the oddly-toothed vampire,...
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Not Now Darling/Comrade
STAGE FARCE-derived punt at a 'racier' rival to the Carry On series with ironically appropriate umbrella title
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154
Nothing But The Best
While TW3 ruled the airwaves, Frederic Raphael wrote this nifty cross between Room at the Top (1959) and My Fair Lady (1964)....
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Nurse On Wheels
Aka – wait for it – Carry On, Nurse On Wheels. Oh, yes. This Rogers/Thomas extra-currucular romp (it even has Norman Hudis...
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Nutty Hijack
Largely forgotten, thanks to a mystifying lack of commercial release on VHS, Beta or DVD. But should it be Certainly the cast...
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1972
Octopussy
Roger Moore had dragged the Bond franchise well into `pleasingly silly’ by this time which is good in a sense but on...
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Odd Couple, The
Jack Lemmon’s toilet roll will maker shacks uneasily up with Walter Matthau’s brown and green sandwich maker in this Neil Simon mannerfest...
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Odd Man Out
Wounded IRA gang leader James Mason ducks in and out of the streets of Belfast one night, meeting drunken painter Robert Newton,...
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Ode to Billy Joe
Yes, this really is “based on the Bobbie Gentry song of the same name”. Robby ‘Rent-a-Cop’ Benson jumps off said Tallahatchie bridge....
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Odessa File, The
Jon Voight gets involved with this week’s contingent of naughty Nazis as he tracks the secret ex-SS organisation headed by Maximillian ‘Black...
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Oh, Mr. Porter!
One of Gainsborough’s best – and that is saying something indeed – this is really a reworking of Arnold ‘Godfrey’ Ridley’s The...
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OK Connery
For sheer cheek, this takes the biscuit. Cheapo Italian filmmakers cast Sean Connery’s younger, non-thespian brother Neil as Dr Neil Connery: bearded,...
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Old Gringo
Gregory Peck *is* Ambrose Bierce! Yep, this massively expensive western has the author of the much-quoted Devil’s Dictionary and the much-ripped-off Incident...
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Omega Man, The
Clearly having learnt nothing from his recent sojourn to that terrible Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston once more fins himself representing...
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Omen, The
“When the Jews return to Zion…”
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On the Buses
It always amazes us that this programme could still be responsible for so many cultural reference points, since the show itself was...
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133
Once Upon a Time in America
This Really Great Big Film comes from Sergio Leone and stars James ‘you would be in hysterics’ Woods and Robert De Niro...
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Despite the presence of Peter Ustinov, this isn’t the madcap story of the theft of a spitfire skeleton containing a secret microfilm,...
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Ooh… You Are Awful
Dick Emery does all his dodgy characters in this plotless (he has to look at some women’s arses, is the extent of...
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Orca
Salty old fisherman Richard ‘lower teeth’ Harris accidentally kills the titular zebra-skinned cetacean’s mate and unborn child, causing it to go on...
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Our Man Flint
With astonishing rapidity, not to mention alarming ferocity, Hollywood took the release of Dr No as the starting pistol to a silly...
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Our Mother’s House
Did Ian McEwan rip this old horror off for The Cement Garden? Libel laws prevent us from saying ‘Well yes of course...