We prefer Henry Morgan’s pre-colonel portrayal of General MacArthur in M*A*S*H to be honest, since he plays him as a complete loon...
Our regular chance to have a pop at Bryan Forbes always casting Nanette Newman in his films, here as a folk singer...
A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...
'Coming Of Age' dramas about young men seeking their identity in the dying days of the sexual revolution were pretty much ten...
Look out chaps, it's one of those portmanteau comedy jobbies.
In a predictably blokeish Australian cinematic milieu, female directors did gain a foothold. Gillian Armstrong, propelled Judy Davis and Sam Neill to...
The best thing about these film versions of sitcoms is that the plots seldom bear much similarity to the “sit” of the...
If you’ll forgive us a shallow observation about a cinematic giant, what was it with Carol Reed and the word “Man”? As...
Paul Schofield is Thomas More, wearing a football boot on one leg and a cricket pad on the other, telling a drumstick-tossing...
This overly convoluted but nonetheless heavily similar melodrama to The Wicked Lady, precedes said film by two years and is lauded as...
Nice waferlight space parody with an impossibly chirpy Kenneth More fired from his job in cold research for failure to catch any...
A touch of satire from Alec Guinness and Ealing as the little man invents the super-suit that never wears out etc putting...
Basil ‘Room for one more inside, sir’ Dearden demonstrates his unparalleled ability to be shocking very slowly, as a moustachioed Roger Moore...
We haven’t seen this in ages and had convinced ourselves that John Mills was in it, but of course, he isn’t –...
Steve Martin films are funny things, and we don’t always mean ‘funny’ in the good sense. The Jerk is of course one...
A sixties Sinatrum from the ‘well, that’s that, then’ post-Oscar freewheeling period, falling steadily, moderate or poor. Deborah Kerr and The Chairman...
Now here’s fun. Vincent Price dons a dodgy beard as Robur, Jules Verne’s less-celebrated airborne version of Captain Nemo, out cruising the...
A number of films in this chart are wartime propaganda jobs, knocked up in times of crisis for a quick sentimental fix,...
There’s a time in every studio executive’s life when he has to bow to the inevitable and greenlight a talking penis film,...
Decidedly wayward adaptation of abstruse and famously not bothered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s tale of a marble-shedding Julie Christie holed up...
The splendid Ronald Neame – of Poseidon Adventure, The Card and The Million Pound Note, amongst many others, fame – was responsible...
This is another of those films which we’re supposed to think is marvellous and convince us that Dusty Hoffman is a great...
Dope-smuggling Brad Davis’ Turkish jail and John Hurt hell, as over-didactically scripted by Oliver Stone. Our RE teacher actually played this, ‘visiting...
They shoot horses, don’t they? Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach take divorcee Marilyn Monroe on a dogfood-gathering mustang hunt, providing...
Pseudo-prehistoric documentary in which a professional man-ape impersonator larks about by the sea, ingests dodgy berries and pisses on the floor a...
Now, not only have we never seen this film, we’ve actually taken steps to avoid seeing it at least twice, so you...
James Garner is a Central Park amnesiac, waking up to identity confusion with only a pissed Angela Lansbury for guidance, forming the...
It’s a good book, is Moby Dick. Underneath all the allegorical grandstanding and portentous biblical references, in between the – admittedly fascinating...
A swinging spadeful of downbeat camp fun, if such a thing is possible.
Three of a kind
The first full-steam outing for the Marx Brothers, stowing away in barrels of kippered herring for an entrance to top all entrances....
Subotsky wound up Amicus, completing its last unfinished film under the aegis of his newly-formed Sword and Sorcery Productions. Fittingly, it starred...
“A duck!” Our vote for the best Python film, purely as it’s more… well, *Pythonic* than Life of Brian, and isn’t a...
We were going to use this billing to witter on about how Graham Chapman’s A Liar’s Autobiography seems to have snuck back...
There’s the slightly underrated, knockabout one, and the slightly overrated, controversial one, now here’s the one you thought was great when you...
David Mercer was a young writer from Wakefield who, in the days when such a thing was still possible, wrote a play...
“They don’t call them that for nothing!” In LA the first ambulance at the scene of an incident gets the contract to transport...
Let’s face it, The Mouse That Roared isn’t that good. Apart from the opening scenes in Grand Fenwick and that general who...
James Garner remarries years after wife Doris Day goes missing – then she turns up! Big trub, as they used to say...
A major headache at the time, due to the impossibility of stitching real Antarctic bird footage into the here-there-everywhere tale of remote...
‘A happy, tuneful comedy of today’s groovy generation!’ Herman’s Hermits come far too late to the sub-Hard Day’s Night film party, but...
The middle classes stand up four square to Hitler blowing their curtains in. Meanwhile, hard put to it working class families the...
The inferior Addams Family, natch. Funny how for ages (i.e. the ’80s) Channel Four reran The Munsters almost endlessly, and the only...
Ya got trouble, reckons Robert Preston in this always-welcome vintage conman musical romp. Of course, Paul ‘Biiiilkoooo!’ Ford is in full voice...
The Laughton/Gable one, not the Howard/Brando effort. Which is all very well, but we’re afraid our nearest points of reference for this...
Funny old Hammer, eh? At the same time as Dracula AD1972 was being shrugged off the production line, they were also making...
It’s got Bob Hope and it’s got Dorothy Lamour, but no Bing Crosby otherwise it would probably have been The Road to...
The third version of this much-filmed desert island tale (the Cary Grant one, natch). We have the Doris Day remake, Move Over...