A Christmas Carol (1938)
Apr 7, 2001Miser's Redemption
A fine classic cinematic adaptation of the oft-filmed Charles Dickens tale about the redemption of a miser, starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge
Leo G. Carroll
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Sep 22, 2014Murder Pact Between Strangers/Psycho-Thriller
One of the most darkly engrossing of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, a classic about two strangers who make a murder pact after meeting on a train. Where any other director would have made a straight thriller, Hitchcock lingers on the mordant humour with unnerving effect
Tarantula (1955)
May 31, 2001Giant Spider
Them! had created the 1950s fad for giant atomically enlarged insects. Here Jack Arnold, one of the most celebrated genre directors of the 1950s, makes a giant spider film and much better than most of the era's other giant bug films
The Spy With My Face (1965)
Jan 12, 2015The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The second of the feature films repackaged from the tv series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., one of the better copies of the James Bond spy fad of the 1960s. Despite the low conceptual horizons of a tv episode, this plays itself with a splendidly droll tongue-in-cheek panache
One of Our Spies is Missing (1966)
Feb 26, 2015The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The third cinematically released film repackaged from episodes of the cultish 1960s spy tv series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Despite a scattershot plot that doglegs all over the place, the film is made with a wonderfully droll sense of humour that makes it undeniably appealing
One Spy Too Many (1966)
Apr 19, 2017The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. tv series was construed as lighter take on the James Bond films. This, the third theatrical film recut from tv episodes, is one of the most entertaining, creating a memorable super-villain and almost entirely consisting of over-the-top death traps and action set-pieces
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Jun 2, 2020The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The fifth of the theatrically released films based on tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This is one of the more overtly comic films with an entertainingly madcap plot that has Napoleon Solo forced into a shotgun wedding and Jack Palance as a mad winemaker attempting to divert the Gulf Stream
The Karate Killers (1967)
Mar 13, 2024Man from U.N.C.L.E./Spy Film
One of the appealingly colourful theatrical films edited together from the tv series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - although surprisingly given the title this is not a martial arts film
How to Steal the World (1968)
Apr 1, 2005The The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The eight and last of the films recut from episodes of tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This starts to show the strain of trying to make what were originally designed as tv episodes work as feature films