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Review of Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

Artistic settings beautifully photographed are a pleasing feature of this lavish production, but they cannot disguise the crude melodramatics…

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Review of The Magnificent Two (1967)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

The film's humour depends largely on the comic personalities of Morecambe and Wise…

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Review of Knight Without Armour (1937)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

The direction of individual scenes is good, sometimes excellent, but the film as a whole is formless…

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Review of Laughter in Paradise (1951)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

As a whole, although the script contains some genuinely amusing ideas, neither script writers nor director have achieved the pace, invention…

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Review of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

Richardson, the producer and director, makes his point clearly enough, but at quite a price: bias trailing off into parody, forcefulness impaired…

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Review of The 'Maggie' (1954)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

Here the director has been very successful in capturing the particular mixture of canniness and humour, petty deceitfulness and honesty…

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Review of London Town (1946)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 05 Feb 2018

Around the laborious narration of this story is built the most costly British musical to date…

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Review of The Edge of the World (1937)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 04 Feb 2018

When all is said and done it remains Foula which is both hero and heroine of this film, and its appeal will be to lovers of magnificent scenes…

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Review of In Which We Serve (1942)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 04 Feb 2018

This is, to my mind, the finest war drama produced yet and because of the strength of its understatement and recognition occasionally of human…

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Review of I'm All Right Jack (1959)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 04 Feb 2018

Successful comedy is based on love of life, successful satire on indignation: the Boultings succeed in revealing neither…

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Review of Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 04 Feb 2018

Any impression of actuality or of sharp conflict is missing, the direction relying mainly on a coating of naive boisterous humour and the personalities…

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Review of I See a Dark Stranger (1946)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 04 Feb 2018

There are too many loose ends, events without motivation, crises skimmed with a glib phrase…

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Review of Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 01 Feb 2018

For all its contemporary setting, the plot of this lurid melodrama relies almost entirely on hackneyed Gothic paraphernalia…

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Review of Hell Is a City (1960)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 01 Feb 2018

Little detection is needed with a gang so improbably stupid as not to notice dye on their fingers, and the toughness caricatures itself in…

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Review of Hobson's Choice (1954)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 01 Feb 2018

Hobson's Choice is unmistakably the work of a craftsman; but an over-elaborate pursuit of effects, alien to the tone of the play, cannot but…

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Review of Heavens Above! (1963)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 31 Jan 2018

Way off target as a satire, the Boultings' latest effort is remarkable chiefly for the amount of schoolboy smut it manages to incorporate,…

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Review of The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 31 Jan 2018

Resourcefully directed and inventively scripted, The Face of Fu Manchu is a first-class thriller, weakened only by some rather summary characterisation,…

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Review of The Good Die Young (1954)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 31 Jan 2018

An all-star Anglo-American cast has been assembled to very little purpose for this synthetic and pretentious melodrama…

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Review of Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 31 Jan 2018

The Asquith directing is clean cut, sure and sensitively evocative of his period atmosphere -- evocative, too, of unusually fine work from…

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Review of The Gorgon (1964)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 31 Jan 2018

The Gorgon myth does not fit happily into Transylvanian surroundings, and there are too many red-herrings indicative of the script's straining…

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