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Review of The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

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

Occasionally slapdash, but frequently amusing…

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Review of Gone to Earth (1950)

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

It is difficult to know what to make of this film…

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Review of Genevieve (1953)

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

This lively comedy is one of the best things to have happened in British films over the last few years…

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Review of Days of Heaven (1978)

By Tom Milne (86) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 30 Jan 2018

Where Badlands was about the unilateral influences of untamed landscapes on two young urban delinquents, Days of Heaven widens its perspective…

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Review of Doctor in the House (1954)

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

Doctor in the House, adapted from the book by Richard Gordon, works its way with determined high spirits through the repertoire of medical…

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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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