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Review of Expresso Bongo (1959)

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

In broadening the humour of his original play and watering down some of its more savage satire, presumably in the hope of appealing to a mass…

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Review of Green for Danger (1946)

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

Though the story has plenty of improbabilities when considered in cold blood, this thriller holds one well when on the screen…

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Review of The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

Once again Ealing Studios have produced a bright and entertaining comedy…

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Review of The Ipcress File (1965)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

An easy film to criticise; but also an easy film to be amused by, at least as far as its central performances, its minor jokes, and its London…

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Review of Cul-de-sac (1966)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

The sheer affectedness of the whole thing…

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Review of The Angry Silence (1960)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

The film has several themes whose admixture and thorough working out, possible in a novel, are less ideally suited to the cinema…

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Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

This is an exceedingly funny film, scintillating with rapid witty dialogue by John Dighton and Robert Hamer, who has also directed with excellent…

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Review of Brighton Rock (1948)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

Brighton Rock is disappointing and difficult to follow…

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Review of Jungle Book (1942)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

The spirit of the original is missing and the whole film despite the lavish nature of its production is unsatisfying…

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Review of Brief Encounter (1945)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

This is a poet's film, harsh, cruel and lovely…

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Review of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

It is never tied to stage precedents; and, unlike them, it keeps entirely within its world, introducing no characters to tell its audience…

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Review of Lord of the Flies (1963)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

Too slow in the establishing shots and too flurried with action shots, the direction, like the tediously repetitive score, raises a barrier…

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Review of That Hamilton Woman (1941)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

The film has many dramatic moments and is a very appropriate production at this time…

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Review of The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

As the film's point of view stands confessed in the title, only Henry's admirers, if any, will cavil at this well directed and acted production,…

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Review of The L-Shaped Room (1962)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Leslie Caron has never been more appealing…

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Review of Mildred Pierce (1945)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Joan Crawford presents a consistent and sustained characterisation of the harassed Mrs. Pierce fighting against relentless spiritual degradation…

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Review of The Lady Vanishes (1938)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Feb 2017

Alfred Hitchcock has directed The Lady Vanishes with all his individual expertness of touch and this is an out of the ordinary and exciting thriller…

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Review of Elephant Boy (1937)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Feb 2017

Those who know Flaherty's previous work will not be disappointed in his work in this film and the film must be seen for it in spite of the…

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Review of The Sorcerers (1967)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 18 Oct 2016

It is the overall effect that impresses rather than any individual scene or composition, but the psychedelic experience is particularly well…

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Review of Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Oct 2016

Apart from one or two welcome innovations -- notably the sort of Instant Vampire recipe by which Dracula is resuscitated, and his final destruction…

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