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Nowhere to Go
The films of Ealing Studios usually evoke and exploit the same basic themes: small, underdog communities united in a sense of charming public spiritedness against some overbearing foe. So it comes as...
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Obsession
‘Planned?’ the incredulous victim asks our protagonist ‘You planned this?’ ‘Oh yes, weeks ago. It’s all part of my perfect murder.’ Well, introductory lines don’t get much better than that. It’s...
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Jackson County Jail
We all, from time to time, make poor decisions and sometimes find ourselves occupying that cliché of being in the wrong place at the wrong time but hopefully none of us have had an experience quite as...
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Sitting Target
It’s always something of a mystery when some vintage British crime pictures attain a hallowed status in the film pantheon where other, equally good movies, languish in obscurity. You’ll hear no...
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The Hot Rock
Ahh, Peter Yates. Whatever happened to him? After a pretty impeccable TV career he graduated to Hollywood and had a damn good run in the late 60s through to the early 70s that included Bullitt and The...
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Breaker Morant
A common thread that weaves its way through most films dealing with the British Empire is the exciting, Boy’s Own spirit of martial bravado. Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Four Feathers and Gunga Din...
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