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Squadron Leader X (1943) 88% EDIT “An exciting story, well scripted and produced with tremendous attention to detail. The direction is admirable, the pace deftly adjusted and the photography and lighting noticeably good.” – Monthly Film Bulletin May 14, 2021 Full Review Old Bones of the River (1938) EDIT “This is a roaring farce which gets steadily more and more funny as it proceeds.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 12, 2020 Full Review 60 Glorious Years (1938) EDIT “The treatment is necessarily and inevitably episodic, but the incidents are admirably chosen, and the balance is skilfully kept between pageantry and human interest.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 12, 2020 Full Review Windbag the Sailor (1936) EDIT “The story though not strong and rather slowly developed is an excellent vehicle -- and a new one -- for Will Hay's particular kind of humour and fooling and he is in good form.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 12, 2020 Full Review Elephant Gun (1958) EDIT “It is sad that such resources should have been squandered on material of pulp magazine level, in which neither character nor incident nor theme has any coherence or interest.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review Piccadilly Incident (1946) EDIT “It remains quite an entertaining film... but it certainly seems a pity that so promising a beginning should have tailed off to such an unsatisfactory ending.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review The Secret Place (1958) EDIT “The Secret Place is a modest production, but it develops conventional material with an encouraging sense of enterprise.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review Trottie True (1949) EDIT “The film hovers on the edge of a charm, humour and style which it never quite attains.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review Turned Out Nice Again (1941) EDIT “Admirers of George Formby will find little for complaint in this film, though it differs from his previous comedies in that the story is less improbable than usual and contains very little slapstick.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review 2,000 Women (1944) EDIT “Though the balance of humour and dramatic suspense is good, the film is lacking in realism. However, taken solely from an entertainment angle, it may be enjoyed for its snappy dialogue and good comedy angles.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review The Winds of Change (1960) EDIT “The film, as its pretentious title implies, takes too much upon itself.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 4, 2020 Full Review The Square Peg (1958) EDIT “Norman Wisdom is too unrelaxed, too self-conscious as yet, to be one of the great screen comedians.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 27, 2020 Full Review Target for Tonight (1941) EDIT “It dramatises reality and is very successful in conveying atmosphere.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 26, 2020 Full Review The Spider and the Fly (1949) EDIT “There is no doubt that the undertones throughout are fascinating, but the dramatic possibilities of the subject are only half realised.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Violent Playground (1958) EDIT “It is very sad that such a wonderful opportunity to make a true to life film on such an important theme has been allowed, once again, to slip away.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Spring in Park Lane (1947) EDIT “Here an old and sorely tried story has been taken and transformed by Nicholas Phipps into a brilliant script bubbling over with gaiety and wit.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 26, 2020 Full Review They Were Sisters (1945) EDIT “Although it could not be called striking or outstanding, this is an interesting film which leaves its own kind of quiet satisfaction.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Tomorrow at Ten (1964) EDIT “Robert Shaw is chillingly effective in an intelligent performance which, for about twenty minutes deludes one into thinking that Lance Comfort's direction is much better than it really is.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Palais Royale (1988) EDIT “Although familiar in style and idiom, this pleasant little mystery story has a few features that lift it out of the ordinary.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 25, 2020 Full Review Summertime (1955) 92% EDIT “The script maintains slightly the tone of an impeccably smooth and glossy novelette, romantic rather than sentimental, but scarcely concerned to explore its situation very deeply.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Summer Holiday (1963) 33% EDIT “A star vehicle for Cliff Richard that aims high, but continually slops into the second-rate through lack of inventiveness in narrative and dancing.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Sweeney Todd (1936) EDIT “There are several inconsistencies in the development of the plot, but a certain amount of the necessarily gruesome atmosphere has been caught and the story itself is so good that the film has some success.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 4, 2019 Full Review The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) EDIT “The whole weight of this gay idea is carried by Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford and Peter Sellers... Outside these three, the film is a rather poor example of conventional British screen comedy, with stock characters and situations.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 4, 2019 Full Review The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) EDIT “The script itself is disconcertingly short on wit, and some of its invention appears forced, and Crichton's handling fails to supply the charm that could still have been the film's justification.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Witchfinder General (1968) 94% EDIT “Visually, the theme is beautifully supported by Reeves' subtle use of colour, in which the delicate patchwork greens of the English countryside are shot through by the colours of death and decay as Matthew Hopkins prowls through it robed in black.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 4, 2019 Full Review
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