Winner of a BAFTA, it remains a classic in British cinema. Released: 1979 Directed by: Terry Jones Also ranks #2 on The Best British Comedy Movies Also ranks #3 on The Best Intelligent Comedies Of All Time Also ranks #9 on The Best Comedy Movies On Peacock, Ranked 8 It's a Mad, ...
Winner of a BAFTA, it remains a classic in British cinema. Released: 1979 Directed by: Terry Jones Also ranks #1 on The Best British Comedy Movies Also ranks #3 on The Best Intelligent Comedies Of All Time Also ranks #9 on The Best Comedy Movies On Peacock, Ranked 8 It's a Mad, ...
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19 'Carmen Jones' (1954) 20 'Seven Samurai' (1954) Everett Akira Kurosawa’sSeven Samuraiis a film on every master director’s list of must-see films, so there’s no reason it shouldn’t be on yours too. The gist: A village enlists seven samurai to help defend them against a gang...
70 years ago in 1949, Ealing Studios released four comedy films in close succession and the classic British film institution of theEaling Comedieswas firmly established. The studios had released comedies previously, such as “Hue & Cry” in 1947, but Ealing’s prolific output in 1949 was a bo...
I’m especially fond of the early ’30s pre-Code films, though I don’t necessarily like every movie that I’ve written about. While I do cover the occasional Silent Film or sometimes work my way into the 1950s, I spend most of my spare time with the ’30s stuff and the volume of...
(2) Sapphire (1959) Basil Dearden is a somewhat underrated British director of the 1940’s and ’50’s who, although not on the level of a David Lean or Carol Reed, made some very fine films particularly in the postwar era, such as “The Captive Heart”, “Saraband”, “Frieda”, ...
Each one of these classic films delivers a heady dose of nostalgia, is genuinely entertaining, and will make you sound more interesting at cocktail parties. Where else can you find all that?
Directed by Val Guest and Norman Cohen, this frolicsome foursome features British comedy greats such as Bill Maynard, Doris Hare, Windsor Davies, John Le Mesurier and Liz Fraser, alongside a who’s who of genre favourites, including Judy Matheson, Melissa Stribling, Jill Gascoine, George Layton,...
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