Day: 15 January 2013

★★★★☆ Seth Holt’s Nowhere to Go (1958), starring George Nader, Maggie Smith and Bernard Lee, is a film which still packs a punch more than fifty years after its initial release. Paul Gregory (Nader) is a crook. Stealing a valuable coin collection from vulnerable widow Harriet Jefferson (Bessie Love), he sells Continue Reading

★★★★★ The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), starring legends of British screen Stanley Holloway, Hugh Griffith and Sid James, is one of those rare things seldom found in cinema – a film which is virtually perfect in every respect. Made by the iconic Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Crichton (who’d been Continue Reading