Category: Directed by Robert Hamer
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I don’t think I’ve ever referred to a performance as delicious before. I haven’t on The Stop Button (if Google is to be believed), but I’m also pretty sure I’ve never said that phrase before. Delicious performance. Dennis Price gives a delicious performance in Kind Hearts and Coronets. He narrates almost the entire film; there’s…
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Peculiar character study slash mystery starring Alec Guinness as a staid British school teacher who meets his lookalike while in France. French Guinness tricks British Guinness into taking his place as a French blue blood, saddled with a wife, a kid, a mistress, and a failing business. Only British Guinness comes to love all those…
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Mildly amusing horror anthology. The characters are too thin, the stories aren’t really uncanny enough, and the bridging sequence is a big time narrative cheat. Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne appear in one of the segments as non-copyright infringing analogues to their LADY VANISHES characters. DVD.Continue reading →
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