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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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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 Blood Simple (1985)

By Steve Jenkins (1) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Jan 2018

Blood Simple is certainly a strikingly assured first feature…

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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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