by Mark Murton Directed by: Gerald Thomas Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: When a suburban police station is understaffed due to a flu epidemic, three new recruits, straight from training school, are assigned to help out. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Walking the beat near a […]
Directed by: Ray McCarey This review contains a Mild Kitty Carnage Warning for rough handling! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A precocious boy named Orvie Stone (Johnny Sheffield) has his hopes set on getting a dog for his birthday but his mother (Dorothy Tree) is […]
by Mark Murton Directed by: Richard Eyre Synopsis: At the time the Falklands war is dominating the British media, ambitious Journalist James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) starts working on a book about the 1956 Suez Crisis while he also beginning a pursuit of TV reporter Susan Barrington (Charlie Dore). Purr Blur: In his pursuit of Susan, […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Alan Crosland Synopsis: In 15th century France, Francois Villon (John Barrymore), renowned poet, vagabond, patriot and hero to the beggars and outcasts of Paris, is used as a pawn by the scuttling and superstitious Louis XI (Conrad Veidt), King of France, to rid his kingdom of the encroaching and rapacious […]
Starring: Black Tom Directed by: Raoul Walsh Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Ace fighter pilot Major Ed Hardin (Edmond O’Brien), finds himself promoted to the head of his group where he must reconcile his dislike for authority with the need to lead and protect his […]
by Mark Murton This review contains a Mild Kitty Carnage Warning for rough handling! Directed by: Jay Lewis Synopsis: After a drunken night ashore, Puncher Roberts (John Mills) finds himself stuck with the baby brother of his best friend’s ex-girlfriend and unable to return him before the ship sails he smuggles the child aboard and […]
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A live-action / computer animated update of the Disney film in which a woodcarver named Geppetto (Tom Hanks) wishes that the puppet he has created could be a real boy. Cartoon Cats: As in the original […]
Review by Ted DavisBehind the Scenes by Linda Kay Starring: Yehudi Directed by: Arthur Lubin This review contains a mild Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Radio writer Sally Ambler (Wendy Barrie) travels back to Wisteria Hall, the old family mansion outside of […]
by Mark Murton Directed by: Darcy Conyers Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film. Synopsis: Comic caper following gormless antiques seller Bertie Skidmore (Brian Rix) who gets caught up in his new boss’s forgery racket. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): After the death of his boss, Cecil (Ronald Shiner), […]
by Mark Murton Directed by: Robert S. Baker Synopsis: A Scotland Yard detective commits a crime and gets sent to prison in order to go undercover and infiltrate a gang of warehouse breakers that he has been unable to catch by normal methods. Purr Blur (and Cat Burglar Scene Stealer!) The gang and their new […]