Robert Morley Archives

The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 14, 2000Screwball Comedy

After a decade, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby returned for their sixth and final Road movie. Both they and the knockabout comedy are on great form with the show taking on the influence of the 60s spy movie fad and even sending them to The Moon

Director: Norman Panama

Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 August 200029 August 2021 by Roog

The Old Dark House (1963)

Rating: ★

Jun 27, 2017Old Dark House Comedy

The oddest collaborations of its era – between Hammer Films and William Castle renowned for his sensationalist gimmicks, who conduct a remake of James Whale's droll horror comedy. Alas, Castle only turns out a broad farce

Director: William Castle

Actors: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Fenella Fielding, …

Category: Horror

27 June 20179 April 2026 by Roog

A Study in Terror (1965)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 17, 2010Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper

Largely forgotten Sherlock Holmes entry that was the first film to pit Holmes against Jack the Ripper. Both sides are treated with respect amid lush production values

Director: James Hill

Actors: John Neville, Anthony Quayle, Donald Houston, Robert Morley, …

Category: Horror

17 July 201023 April 2024 by Roog

Way … Way Out (1966)

Rating: ★★

Jan 17, 2019Space Mission Comedy

Comedy in which Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens are forced to marry to go to The Moon. The sexual politics play out pretty embarrassingly today

Director: Gordon Douglas

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Robert Morley, Dennis Weaver, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 January 20196 June 2024 by Roog

Some Girls Do (1969)

Rating: ★★

Jan 8, 2020Spy Film

Bulldog Drummond was a gentleman adventurer hero popular in books and films of the 1930s/40s. Here he is reincarnated as a playboy spy amid the spate of James Bond inspired spy films of the 1960s, battling a super-villain outfitted with an army of women with robot brains

Director: Ralph Thomas

Actors: Richard Johnson, James Villiers, Daliah Lavi, Robert Morley, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 January 202028 June 2023 by Roog

Theater of Blood (1973)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 5, 2000Mad Shakespearean Actor's Revenge

Following on from the success of the Dr Phibes films, Vincent Price is cast as a mad Shakespearean actor who employs comically grotesque deaths from Shakespeare's plays to kill his critics

Director: Douglas Hickox

Actors: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, …

Category: Horror

5 November 20006 May 2020 by Roog

The Blue Bird (1976)

Rating: ★

Oct 28, 2014Fairy-Tale

A ghastly fairytale adaptation. Classic Hollywood director George Cukor took several stars to shoot in the Soviet Union and the results look like a badly choreographed amateur pantomime, lacking in any essential whimsy

Director: George Cukor

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Patsy Kensit, Jane Fonda, George Cole, …

Category: Fantasy

28 October 201428 December 2025 by Roog

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 6, 2002Muppet Movie

The second of the Muppet films made when Jim Henson was alive and one of the best, this bubbles with a double level of sly grown-up humour that many of the later post Henson entries miss

Director: Jim Henson

Actors: Diana Rigg, Charles Grodin, Jack Warden, Peter Falk, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 200212 March 2026 by Roog

Second Time Lucky (1984)

Rating: ★

Jan 25, 2003Adam and Eve Comedy

One of the most excruciatingly painful films ever made - a softcore comedy in which God and The Devil make a bet to replay the Garden of Eden by reincarnating Adam and Eve throughout history. Filled with ghastly over-the-top performances and much eye-rolling innuendo

Director: Michael Anderson

Actors: Diane Franklin, Robert Morley, Roger Wilson, Robert Helpmann, …

Category: Fantasy

25 January 200323 September 2025 by Roog

Alice in Wonderland (1985)

Rating: ★

May 3, 2023Alice in Wonderland TV Adaptation

From Irwin Allen, the creator of Lost in Space etc, a tv version of Alice in Wonderland, conceived as an all-star musical that comes out as ponderous and leaden in Allen's hands

Director: Harry Harris

Actors: Natalie Gregory, Roddy McDowall, Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, …

Category: Fantasy

3 May 202313 March 2026 by Roog