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U N M I S S A B L E B L A C K A N D W H I T E M O V I E S
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P A R T T W O
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BY BOB TESTICLES
{A{9 And there you have it. Here are
some more blasts from the past that
you should drop everything, cancel all
reservations and jump off the toilet
in the middle of a very fulfilling
shit to see. Enough of the bumf...
Here goes...
{I{:Gunga Din {5(1939)
{A{6Director : George Stevens
UK Cert : U
Starring : Cary Grant,
Victor Mclaglen,
Joan Fontaine
{7 Stirring action adventure about
three soldiers and the eponymous
Indian chappie who battles the very
questionnable Thuggee cult. Most
smashing.
{8Rating : 4 out of 5
{tb
{I{:The Postman Always Rings Twice {5(1946)
{A{6
Director : Tay Garnett
UK Cert : PG
Starring : Lana Turner,
John Garfield
{7 Forget the 1981 kit-off remake and
catch this original instead. My only
quibble with this is the slow start
but once it gets going, it's a
cracking suspencer. Then again, I
have the same quibble with Hitchcock's
excellent "Rear Window"!
{8Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:Angel And The Badman {5(1947)
{A{6
Director : James Edward Grant
UK Cert : U
Starring : John Wayne,
Gail Russell
{7 An above average western adventure
with the Duke as a hardened gunslinger
who gets chilled out by Gail Russell
and it turns out he's not such a bad
guy after all.
{8Rating : 4 out of 5
{tb
{I{:Five Graves To Cairo {5(1943)
{A{6
Director : Billy Wilder
UK Cert : PG
Starring : Franchot Tone,
Anne Baxter,
Akim Tamiroff
{7 A tense WW2 movie which favours
suspense over relentless action. Tone
sneaks around a hotel in the Sahara
trying to get secrets from Field
Marshall Rommel who is paying it a
visit. The film may not have any big
star names to illuminate it, but it
really is worth checking out.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:House On Haunted Hill {5(1958)
{A{6
Director : William Castle
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Vincent Price,
Carol Ohmart
{7 More fun from fifties gimmick king
Castle (whom John Goodman's character
was based on in last year's
"Matinee"). The always entertaining
Vincent Price offers a group of people
50,000 dollars each to spend a night
in a haunted house.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
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{I{:It Happened One Night {5(1934)
{A{6
Director : Frank Capra
UK Cert : U
Starring : Clark Gable,
Claudette Colbert
{7 A comedy classic with Clark as a
newspaper reporter and Claudette as an
heiress who fall in love on a bus
trip. Loads of great gags and classic
scenes.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:Bringing Up Baby {5(1938)
{A{6
Director : Howard Hawks
UK Cert : U
Starring : Cary Grant,
Katherine Hepburn
{7 This is considered by many to be the
definitive "screwball" comedy.
Haepburn also plays an heiress - Baby
is her pet leopard - and Grant plays
an absent-minded dinosaur expert who
spends most of the film chasing the
last bone for his nearly finished
skeleton.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{tb
{I{:I Was A Teenage Werewolf {5(1957)
{A{6
Director : Gene Fowler Jnr.
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Michael Landon,
Yvonne Lime
{7 Above average fifties horror movie
about lycanthropy and juvenile
delinquency. Good fun.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:In Cold Blood {5(1967)
{A{6
Director : Richard Brooks
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Robert Blake,
Scott Wilson
{7 An excellent adaptation of Truman
Capote's book about a real-life
multiple murder in fifties Kansas. A
tense and chilling movie.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
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{I{:Sunset Boulevard {5(1950)
{A{6
Director : Billy Wilder
UK Cert : U
Starring : Gloria Swanson,
William Holden
{7 Probably the best film by Hollywood
about Hollywood. The story is about a
faded silent film star (Swanson) who
is living in the past and still thinks
she's famous and sought after by
Hollywood's moguls. An intriguing
classic.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:Roman Holiday {5(1953)
{A{6
Director : William Wyler
UK Cert : U
Starring : Audrey Hepburn,
Gregory Peck
{7 Oscar winning debut for Audrey
Hepburn in which she plays a princess
who absconds from the palace and falls
in love with Gregory Peck. Very
enjoyable indeed.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{tb
{I{:Now, Voyager {5(1942)
{A{6
Director : Irving Rapper
UK Cert : U
Starring : Bette Davis,
Paul Henreid,
Claude Rains
{7 A great weepie in which shy Davis
gets her head sorted by her
psychiatrist (Rains) and falls in love
with Paul Henreid. A good Sunday
afternoon's entertainment.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:The Perfect Woman {5(1949)
{A{6
Director : Bernard Knowles
UK Cert : PG
Starring : Patricia Roc,
Stanley Holloway
{7 Fun comedy in which a mad scientist
builds a robot "Perfect Woman"
modelled on his niece. The film has a
surprising number of double entendres
considering the time it was made.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{tb
{I{:Attack {5(1956)
{A{6
Director : Robert Aldrich
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Jack Palance,
Eddie Albert,
Lee Marvin
{7 Intense war movie set during the
Battle Of The Bulge in which a platoon
of American soldiers are hindered by a
cowardly captain. A realistic and
compelling movie.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{I{:Invasion Of The Body Snatchers {5(1956)
{A{6
Director : Don Siegel
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Kevin McCarthy,
Dana Wynter
{7 Seminal fifties SF thriller in which
a town is taken over by aliens who
duplicate the town's residents. Like
much American sci-fi at the time, the
plot is an analogy to the McCarthy
anti-communist witch-hunts, that went
on and at that time America seemed to
be obsessed with the idea of stopping
the spread of communism. This is one
of the better fifties sci-fi movies
and miles better than the 1978 remake
or any of its copies.
{8
Rating : 4 out of 5
{tb{I{:Schindler's List {5(1993)
{A{6
Director : Steven Spielberg
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Liam Neeson,
Ralph Fiennes,
Ben Kingsley
{7 This movie may be over three hours
long and in black and white but it is
essential viewing. It is the story of
the German industrialist Oskar
Schindler who managed to save 1,100
Jews from the death camps during World
War II. The film is shocking,
unsensational in its portrayal and
absolutely gripping. Everyone should
see this film and think about what
happened forty years ago and make sure
that it never happens again.
{8
Rating : 5 out of 5
{I{:Les Diaboliques {5(1955)
{A{6
Director : Henri-Georges Clouzot
UK Cert : 15
Starring : Simone Signoret,
Vera Clouzot,
Paul Meurisse
{7 Last but by certain no means least
comes this cracking suspencer that
gave Alfred Hitchcock a huge run for
his money back in '55. A real nail
biter and one of the best suspense
thrillers ever.
{8
Rating : 5 out of 5
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