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A yacht in the English channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship? This starts out as a fairly standard boat thriller about two missing people that have disappeared into something about atomic bombs. It starts quite slow then moves into high gear during the second half with people getting shot at, a woman locked up inside an empty building and an atomic blast during the finale. The director decided rather stupidly to insert a useless comical scene inside a French police station. It's a bit out of place in the scheme of things. Good acting from the cast which includes the beautiful and stylish Naomi Chance. I liked the tempo of the whole story and it ended very satisfying. A decent movie in the end.

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Howard Phillips, a vicar who’s new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar’s daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he’s not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who’s walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth’s story. A very daring movie in its day but may now look very much like a period piece yet this British movie about a vicar falsely accused of molesting a teenage boy still packs a punch thanks in large part to a fine script by Guy Elmes and Mickey Delamar and good performances from Anthony Quayle as the vicar, Andrew Ray as the boy who makes the allegation, Sarah Churchill as the woman who has the hots for Quayle and, perhaps best of all, Irene Browne as Quayle's no-nonsense mother. It was also the movie that introduced a young Cliff Richard to the big screen as Ray's younger brother and he also gets to sing Living Doll. The ending is rather predictable but the movie as a whole hangs together quite nicely; it's a solid story which is well told.

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AKB48Fan rated The Bushido Blade (Bushido: le sabre du shogun)

 The Bushido Blade (Bushido: le sabre du shogun) 6/10

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AKB48Fan rated Break in the Circle

 Break in the Circle 4/10

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AKB48Fan rated House on Straw Hill

 House on Straw Hill 6/10

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AKB48Fan rated The Boneyard

 The Boneyard 6/10

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AKB48Fan rated Having a Wild Weekend

 Having a Wild Weekend 4/10

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AKB48Fan added 1 item to A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 list

Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all with Steve's friends in tow. This movie is a kind of spiritual successor to the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night with with John Boorman directing this movie in a documentary-like style following The Dave Clark Five on a kind of road trip as they work for an advertising company selling meat. It doesn't sound very exciting and it really isn't, as the singers don't have really anything in the way of screen presence and their dialogue is constantly stilted and more than a little annoying. The saving grace is the presence of real actors in support which includes Ronald Lacey and Clive Swift. The tone of the movie changes from being a bit surreal at the start to more downbeat especially in the 2nd half. Still, this didn't really interest me at all and I found it rather tedious. I'm sure this movie has its fans though.

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AKB48Fan rated Money Movers

 Money Movers 6/10

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A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million Australian dollars from a Security Firm counting house. A flop upon it's release and not that widely known, this is a gritty and violent Aussie crime drama based on two real-life robberies that occurred in Sydney during the summer of 1970. Its hardboiled feel is established very quickly in the opening scenes. The majority of the characters the viewer is introduced to is corrupt and basically there is no 'good guy' in the movie at all. The violence on show is graphic and impactful and one of the most memorable elements of the movie is particularly during the final shootout that occurs inside the garage of the armour car company. The cast which includes Terence Donovan all perform well in their dark roles. I'm not sure why this movie is largely ignored but it's well written, has a great cast and is directed competently by Bruce Beresford who would go on to make the brilliant Breaker Morant. Definitely one to seek out.

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AKB48Fan rated The Narrowing Circle

 The Narrowing Circle 5/10

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A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost. A fairly entertaining b-movie quickie. It's based on a novel by Julian Symonds using office politics as it's starting point which then turns into a murder mystery. Paul Carpenter along with Hazel Court has to find the people that could prove he is innocent but every time he comes across their corpse. One good thing about this movie is you don't have a clue who the real killer is until the end and the reason why he killed started killing. For a thriller, there's not that many thrills to be had. The cast are just OK in their roles. It makes for a good 66 min time waster that's all.

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AKB48Fan rated My Teenage Daughter

 My Teenage Daughter 6/10

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Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony’s fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger. Reportedly made as a British response to Rebel Without a Cause, this is a very good teenage angst flick though it doesn't come close to the greatness of James Dean's breakout movie. It tries to tell the story of a mother trying to deal with her teenage daughter’s descent into delinquency. This was Sylvia Syms' big screen debut and she is superb as the pretty young protagonist, who’s torn between a desire to remain her mother’s “good” eldest daughter, and her itch to explore a walk on the wild side. Anna Neagle is also very good as the mother trying to find out what has happened to her daughter. The plot becomes needlessly melodramatic in its final third, as Neagle and Syms are provided with further opportunities to explore their complicated mother-daughter dynamic. I found it a disgrace during the court scenes when the judge blames the mother for the daughter's behaviour! Other performers include a bit part role for Wilfrid Hyde-White (who calls a memo a 'meemo') and a blink or you'll miss it cameo from Arthur Mullard as a club bouncer. Overall, although not outstanding, it is still an enjoyable drama.

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AKB48Fan rated The Premature Burial

 The Premature Burial  5/10

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An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him. An oddly dull and slow movie that has some fine gothic atmosphere and great sets (foggy graveyards and forests) but feels flat, and doesn't make an effective use of its source material. Ray Milland was an interesting choice to play the lead and tries his best with the script. I'm sure someone like Vincent Price would have performed better in the role though. The biggest problem with the movie is that you know from the start that Milland's character is going to be buried alive so it's just a matter of waiting for the event to occur. It's an alright movie with a lot of filling time in my opinion.

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AKB48Fan rated Beware! The Blob

 Beware! The Blob 4/10

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A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers. A silly sequel to 1950's cult classic features more intergalactic gelatin terrorising the residents of a small town. It's a goofy and unpretentious movie that is willing to poke fun at itself. Burgess Meredith and director Larry Hagman (the only thing he directed) have bizarre cameos as drunk hippies who fall victim to the creature! The blob effects are good, probably one of the highlights of this movie. It's not exactly that great a movie but it's not unwatchable either. If you're a fan of the original, you might want to take a look at this one.

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Successful soccer player Rod Turner spirals into drunken self-pity until he develops a friendship with an inspirational orphan and a beautiful singer. Learning from them what truly matters in life, Rod regroups and returns to form. A fairly good sports drama movie about a one-time superstar ravaged by age and drinking who is determined to give it a go one last time to resurrect his career. For the most part, this movie is fine but it is disrupted by some bloody musical interludes featuring Paul Nicholas and Suzanne Somers as a successful pop duo who also happen to own a football club. Most of these songs are performed at nearly full length and are absolutely dreadful. Ian McShane gives a good performance as the down and out football player who frequently butts head with his football club manager played by Adam Faith due to some previous history between them. Naturally it all ends on a predictable triumph and redemption for McShane's character. This movie isn't special or anything but it's watchable enough if you're after an obscure British sports movie to see.

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Florence Nightingale is a young woman who is drawn towards a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions. This movie chronicles the life of a young 19th-century Englishwoman who would transform how the sick and wounded would be cared for. I wouldn't say it's a historically accurate depiction of her life during the Crimean War but it does show what she managed to achieve during her time in Turkey. Anna Neagle gives a very good performance as Florence and is very suited to the role. It's astonishing the bureaucracy and red tape that Florence has to go through just to get medical supplies to her hospital. Elsewhere, there is a decent performance to be had from Michael Wilding in his part as Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of War who is the only one wanting to give Florence assistance. Overall, this is a very decent biographical drama with a good script, acting and excellent directing from Herbert Wilcox.

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