Richard II
William Shakespeare, Keith Carabine and Cedric Watts
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Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be...
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
6.8
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Hammer Films adaptation of the BBC TV serial. Returning to Earth after a pioneering space flight,...
Hammer horror
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories
John Buchan and Keith Carabine
10.0
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Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) in Movies
Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)
Actually really, really tame as a horror movie by modern standards, obviously, but also of great historical interest as the birth of a legend in British cinema. One can't help suspecting the TV show was a lot more thoughtful, but this still works pretty well as an SF movie, and an influential one at that, and the juxtaposition of B-movie SF ideas and images with post-war Britain is interesting. Imported American star Brian Donlevy is not very good as Professor Q (original writer Nigel Kneale claimed he was on the sauce all the time); Richard Wordsworth is mesmerising as the doomed astronaut.
Leviathan
Tom Griffith and Thomas Hobbes
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With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first...
Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2
William Shakespeare, Keith Carabine and Cedric Watts
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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature,...
British Nautical Melodramas, 1820-1850
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During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the...