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Tag Archives: UK
Salome’s Last Dance (1988) Ken Russell, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace
Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play ‘Salome, on Guy Fawkes day, 1892. Read More »
Sabotage (1936) Alfred Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema Read More »
It’s All Happening (1963) Don Sharp, Tommy Steele, Michael Medwin, Angela Douglas
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring Read More »
Mr. Topaze (1961) Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom
Mr. Topaze (‘Peter Sellers’) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. Read More »
Movie Movie (1978) Stanley Donen, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons
Three movie genres of the 1930s are satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature. Read More »
King Solomon’s Mines (1937) Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas, Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
Fortune hunter Patrick O’Brien has left his daughter Kathy Read More »
The Mercenaries AKA Dark of the Sun (1968) Jack Cardiff, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten
British commando, Captain Curry, is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds Read More »
Ginger Baker in Africa (1973) Tony Palmer, Ginger Baker, Fela Kuti
The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio. Read More »
The Object of Beauty (1991) Michael Lindsay-Hogg, John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel way beyond what they can afford. Read More »
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) Victor M. Gover, Bruce Seton, Henry Caine, Pearl Cameron
Based on a “famous” play , Spring-Heeled Jack or The Terror of London by Maurice Sandoz. Read More »
They’re a Weird Mob (1966) Michael Powell, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist Read More »
The Shadow Line AKA Smuga cienia (1976) Andrzej Wajda, Marek Kondrat, Graham Lines, Tom Wilkinson
From Joseph Conrad’s great novel comes the story of a young seaman trying to helm a damaged boat to Singapore Read More »
The Razor’s Edge (1984) John Byrum, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Denholm Elliott
Larry Darrell returns from the battlefields of World War I to America a different person. Read More »
Valentino (1977) Ken Russell, Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips
In 1926, the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female movie-goers to riot in the streets Read More »