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Review of The Mouse That Roared (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

The Mouse that Roared might be filed away like old Punches to show our grandchildren what Stout Party collapsed at in 1959…

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Review of Elmer Gantry (1960)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

The whole thing bristles with rather superficial symbolism and even Jean Simmons's radiant, and in this case hearty, charm as an Aimee Macpherson…

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Review of The World of Suzie Wong (1960)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

It is sad to see Richard Quine, once a fair hope for 'mad' comedy, but growing progressively more sentimental and soft, slithering into a fifth-rate…

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Review of Ring of Bright Water (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

The humans, again as usual, are required to do mildly idiotic things…

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Review of The Young Doctors (1961)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

It's too rich, too plummy a mixture for artistic translation, and although some genius might make us take to heart the agonies and excitements,…

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Review of Hoffman (1970)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

It has lost an essential claustrophobic quality in its transition from compact TV play to almost two-hour film…

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Review of Nazarín (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

The film is beautiful, with all Builuel's peculiar sensuality in the face of things, which he can make, like faces, extraordinary and eloquent,…

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Review of The Gypsy Moths (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

It is a sympathetic piece of quiet movie-making, a bit undersized perhaps for John Frankenheimer but certainly not such a tiddler as to make…

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Review of A Farewell to Arms (1957)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

This attempt to make the audience feel what the lovers were feeling failed because even to the least experienced in love it was plainly an…

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Review of The Way West (1967)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

The Way West is made with spirit and feeling and, if it has all the old stuff in it, it also has three rock-like old-timers showing their -…

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Review of The Killing of Sister George (1968)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

It's Beryl Reid and Susannah York drifting dismasted towards caricature…

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Review of Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

It may seem churlish to praise a film one admires not so much for what it gets right as for what it manages to avoid getting wrong. But Oh…

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Review of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

Falls well short of the flip promise of its title…

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Review of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

With all the Ford requirements and the Ford mystique, including John Wayne and James Stewart off- setting each other's archetypal physiques,…

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Review of Me, Natalie (1969)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

Director, Fred Coe, has the trick of making fearfully unpromising characters... more humanly bearable than the situation really warrants…

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Review of A Man for All Seasons (1966)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

The intention, I take it, is to steer us into seeing the drama as something universal, to draw what modern parallels we choose…

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Review of Petulia (1968)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

You may not greatly take to Petulia, but don't miss it…

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Review of Gone with the Wind (1939)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

For anyone older who wants a reminiscent trip into the early war years, and how it felt to look at someone else's high-coloured war when you…

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Review of A Taste of Honey (1961)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

This, of course, is what a film ought to make you feel: that it was conceived in cinematic terms…

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Review of The Boys in the Band (1970)

By Penelope Houston (126) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

The combination of schoolgirl confessional... with a discernible element of holier-than-thou voyeurism does give off a certain sliminess…

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