Showing posts with label Wendy Hiller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendy Hiller. Show all posts
Friday, 21 August 2015

My very favourite film

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Take the usual ingredients: a wilful heroine, an unconventional leading man, supporting characters we like and want to see more of, mix in...
Monday, 15 December 2014

Another ship of fools ....

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Based on the true story of a ship carrying German-Jewish refugees which was sent to Havana in 1939 by the Nazis but was denied permissio...
Saturday, 13 September 2014

Separate Tables, 1958

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Terence Rattigan's 1954 play SEPARATE TABLES is a Fifties time capsule now, capturing as it does that genteel Bournemouth hotel wi...
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Tuesday, 6 May 2014

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

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Now for one of the greatest female performances on celluloid - up there with the very best. Maggie Smith is totally mesmerising and heart...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Summer and smoke ... and toys in the attic

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Perfect for this sultry heatwave (with a long cool glass with clinking ice cubes to hand), SUMMER AND SMOKE is a return to that florid D...
Saturday, 21 July 2012

1940s British favourites

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One more look at British movies - those 1940s classics I have discovered (being a child of the '50s) and cherished over the ye...
Thursday, 3 March 2011

"Yes, but money isn't everything.."

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That is probably the key line in I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING - Powell & Pressburger's timeless romantic fantasy from 1945 (the ye...
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