Although celebrating its 40th anniversary this year if you’ve not seen the film there be spoilers ahead. Mention the name of Steve McQueen and most people will think of The Great Escape. For me his best performance came ten years later when he appeared as the lead in Papillon. Strangely both films are about prisoners [...]
Konga is a surprising little film. Looking at the cover I immediately assumed it was a sixties version of King Kong. Although both films have a giant gorilla; that is more victim than perpetrator; and is destroyed for no other reason than it’s big, there the similarity could be said to end. This is a [...]
This second compilation of four classic old British movies contains some real gems. Midshipman Easy is an amusing tale of a young lad who joins the navy when Britain ruled the waves and Spanish ships were there for the taking. Hughie Green, that host of Double Your Money and Opportunity Knocks (prequels for Who Wants [...]
If there were a movie version of Desert Island Discs then The African Queen would be one of my eight choices. Based on the novel by C. S. Forester of Hornblower fame, it is a man and woman finding romance through adventure and adversity story. Nothing new in that one might say as it’s a [...]
Gregory Peck plays Dr Josef Mengele a sinister fanatical Nazi wanted for war crimes. He escaped capture after the war by fleeing to Brazil where he continued his illegal medical experiments on human subjects as part of a plan to create the Fourth Reich. Many years later he is ready to implement his plan and [...]
