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And Now the Screaming Starts! (Amicus 1973 | Stephanie Beacham, Peter Cushing)
Severed hands, apparitions, rapes and family curses abound in this overly eventful horror movie. Branded with an X certificate on…
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner 1942 | James Cagney, Joan Leslie)
A successful biopic of George M Cohan which became one of the top box office hits of 1942 and an…
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Nothing But the Night (1973 | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing)
When the trustees of an orphanage start dying at an alarming rate, Colonel Charles Bingham (Lee) investigates to find a…
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Witchfinder General (1968 | Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy)
England, 1645: As the country tears itself apart in civil war, a witchfinder takes advantage of the lack of law…
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Tiger Bay (1959 | John Mills, Horst Buchholz)
As a noted critic once said of Judy Garland, ‘There’s no counterfeiting that sort of talent.’ The same compliment may…
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Brighton Rock (1948 | Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley)
Vintage British crime thriller Brighton Rock features a chilling turn from Richard Attenborough as a brutal teenage racketeer. Brighton Rock…
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Classic Movie Characters: Norma Desmond
Played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard She’s the greatest star of them all, the faded queen of 1086 Sunset…
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Fallen Idol, The (1948 | Ralph Richardson, Jack Hawkins)
Crisp, taut suspense thriller based on a story by talented old misery-guts, Graham Greene. Exquisitely crafted and superbly photographed, this is…
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Cage of Gold (1950 | Jean Simmons, David Farrar)
A smart little Brit drama, with Jean Simmons as a young artist obsessed with a dashing ex-RAF officer (David Farrar)…
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Classic Directors: Quentin Tarantino
Quote: “Some kids it’s sports, some kids it’s studies, some kids it’s cars, some kids it’s drawing. With me it…
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