A watchable remake of the much-love Hitchcock classic. Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury in high camp mode) goes missing on a train leaving hapless Elliott Gould and Cybill Shepherd flitting from one compartment to the next, where thet are ruthlessly...
Brisk comedy thriller starring John Mills who accidentally kills his daughter Eileen Moore’s crooked lover Herbert Lom and disposes of the body – and then faces danger when the corpse disappears. cast John Mills as Tom Denning Phyllis...
The clue is in the title: gentlemen, would-be thieves who are no ordinary crooks but officers and either their equals or their lackeys. Lt Col Hyde is the mastermind and is decidedly narked by being forced out of the military. He recruits seven...
Michael Crichton’s adaptation of his own novel is only sporadically successful. Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland are the pair of 19th-century crooks determined to relieve a train of its precious gold cargo. While the preparations and heist...
Overdue big-screen outing for the popular long-running TV series which adds little to the small-screen exploits of Edward Woodward as the ex-secret agent specializing in rubbing out the bad guys. Director Don Sharp tries a little too hard to shake...
British B movie starring Ralph Bates as a teacher in an adulterous affair with headmaster’s wife Joan Collins. Together they plan to drive Bates’s wife, Judy Geeson, mad enough to kill Collins’ husband Peter Cushing. cast Joan...
Alberto Cavalcanti made too few British features and this dark thriller caused some anguish on release for its toughness and the successful depiction of the under-belly of post-war London life. Cav was plainly influenced by US noir cinema and by...
The follow up to 1960’s Village Of The Damned, Children … opens up the action on a global scale. A new breed of super-children with telepathic powers and ultra intelligence threatens apocalypse as they fight the struggling adult...
A terrifically seamy crime thriller from British director Apted. Stacy Keach is the alcoholic ex-policeman whose search for the kidnapped wife and child of a security chief (Edward Fox) forces him to rouse himself from his permanently drunken stupor...
This Hammer shocker has an original premise -: daughter of Jack the Ripper becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead father and carries on where he left off, only to remember nothing of her murderous actions afterwards. However, it descends into...