Who Thought Monty Python’s John Cleese Could Be a Romantic Lead?
You can sense Charles Crichton’s stare bearing down on John Cleese every time the former Monty Python actor attempts anything more comedic than a bemused smirk.
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There’ll Always Be An Ealing: Postwar England’s Little Studio That Could – and Did
The Ealing name has been revived in the new century, but film buffs will always regard its incandescent era as that period when it held up a scrappy and schizoid mirror to postwar England's depressions and aspirations.
‘Dead of Night’ Haunts Above and Beyond Its Imitators
Film anthology Dead of Night's influence went far beyond what its creators must have imagined.
From James Thurber’s America to Peter Sellers’ Scotland: ‘The Battle of the Sexes’
A sexual strategy for Yankee mechanization.