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Review of The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 30 Jan 2018

One is never quite sure how seriously one is expected to take this examination of newspaper ethics in time of crisis: the shot of the two headlines…

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Review of The Criminal (1960)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 28 Jan 2018

Neither a dynamic central performance, nor a director and script-writer of individual talent, can conceal the frayed conventions of a story-line…

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Review of Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 28 Jan 2018

The artlessness of the film is in itself sympathetic, but it fails simply through lack of imagination, lack of grasp…

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Review of The Cruel Sea (1953)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 28 Jan 2018

One is grateful nowadays for a film which does not attempt to depict war as anything but a tragic and bloody experience, and it is this quality…

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Review of Animal Farm (1954)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

If Animal Farm is a notable, rather than an exciting, experiment in cartoon making, it will doubtless influence future work in this field,…

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Review of Blithe Spirit (1945)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

Here is another brilliant demonstration that Coward's sense of cinema is as shrewd as his sense of theatre…

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Review of The Blue Lamp (1950)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

The latest production from Ealing Studios unavoidably challenges comparison with Hollywood in style and verisimilitude; it must be said that…

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Review of Chu Chin Chow (1934)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

The sets, photography and costumes are quite admirable, particularly in the robbers' cave…

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Review of Carry On Cleo (1964)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

Most of the players have their moments, although these are perhaps too few for some old stalwarts like Joan Sims…

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Review of The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

The plot is complicated, and not always easy to follow, but this is readily overlooked in the excitement of really well-staged football sequences,…

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Review of Beat Girl (1960)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

Walter Lassally's photography occasionally gives the general farrago, with its confusing time continuity, a distinction it hardly deserves…

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Review of Bank Holiday (1938)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

The excellent acting and brilliant direction, coupled with the fact that the plot deals with the realities of English life, give it a vividness…

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Review of Carry On Spying (1964)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

Straight off the Carry On assembly line, this spoof on James Bondery looses a few random and very limp satirical shafts, but is for the most…

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Review of Carry On Cowboy (1965)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

The introductory scenes make a neat enough send-up of traditional Western routines, situations and dialogue, with a cast largely made up of…

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Review of Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

The film is not entirely successful in combining knockabout farce with more sophisticated lampooning: many of the gags are pressed too hard…

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Review of Carry On Nurse (1959)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 24 Jan 2018

A somewhat stale farce, mixing slapstick, caricature and crudely anatomical humour, puts life in a public hospital ward into the same cheerlessly…

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Review of Tiger Bay (1959)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 23 Jan 2018

Lee-Thompson's direction, less happy in the early scenes of murder and first encounter, is otherwise craftsmanlike, with a good use of locations…

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Review of The Ghost Goes West (1935)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 23 Jan 2018

A cheerfully-handled comedy, containing elements of fantasy and satire, about an ancient Scottish castle which is bought up by an American…

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Review of Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 23 Jan 2018

Throughout, an atmosphere of sincerity of character is maintained by the entire cast, and to each and every one of them, whether star or supporting…

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Review of One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 23 Jan 2018

This is an exceedingly good flying-war film…

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