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Zulu's Welshman

stephanie ogle wrote 5 months ago: New in at Cinema Books: Stanley Baker A Life in Film by Robert Shail, $35.00 cloth.  Sympathetic bio … more →

Tags: Books, ZUlu, Wales

Hell is a City (Val Guest, 1960)1 comment

Nick Redfern wrote 6 months ago: This piece was originally presented as an introduction to a screening of Hell is a City at the Mitch … more →

Tags: British Cinema, film noir, Film Studies, Val Guest, hell is a city, Hammer films

3 Hardened Crims7 comments

dcairns wrote 7 months ago: Barry Foster phones in his performance. William Marlowe: money to burn. Stanley Baker: the very livi … more →

Tags: film, James Booth, William Marlowe, Barry Foster, Robbery, Peter Yates

Bronze Age migrants2 comments

saesferd wrote 8 months ago: Could Welsh star Stanley Baker’s ancestors be Bronze Age copper miners from Spain? EVER wondered whe … more →

Tags: Anglesey, Richard Burton, Sheffield University, Great Orme copper mines, parys mountain, Copper Mine, bio-archaeology

The Cruel Sea (1953)

Vern McIlhenney wrote 10 months ago: I knew I was going to like this.  I didn’t have a doubt in my mind.  Even the opening Jack Haw … more →

Tags: 1950s, War, British Cinema, 9/10, Ealing, Charles Frend, jack hawkins, Donald Sinden, john stratton

The Guns of Navarone (Special Edition)

takeall wrote 1 year ago: Explosive action film about allied commandos during world war ii plotting to destroy german guns. Sp … more →

Tags: guns of navarone, navarone greece, Irene Papas, anthony quinn, James Cagney, alexander mackendrick, J Lee Thompson, david niven, Gregory Peck

Flying Scots28 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Leisen shows his hand. Mitchell Leisen’s Regency romp KITTY and Joseph Losey’s espionage … more →

Tags: film, Comics, Ida Lupino, Preston Sturges, Mitchell Leisen, Ray Milland, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Arise My Love

All About "Eve"15 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: “It’s Losey’s film maudit,” explained David Wingrove to a skeptic after the … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, Painting, sixties, James Bond, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Legrand, Joseph Losey

Keep On Truckin'7 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: The HOT TRUCK-BASED ACTION continues at Shadowplay. HELL DRIVERS is a wonderfully unbalanced, testos … more →

Tags: film, theatre, Sean Connery, Sylvia Syms, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom, Wilfred Lawson, William Hartnell, Cy Endfield

The Guns of Navarone

fmk wrote 1 year ago: Boom went the guns. … more →

Tags: Film Diary, Alistair MacLean, Anthony Quayle, anthony quinn, Carl Foreman, david niven, Gregory Peck, J Lee Thompson, James Robertson Justice


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