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Vegas (725 KP) rated Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) in Movies

Mar 28, 2020

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

1971 | Action, Comedy, Family

8.1

(18 Ratings)

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A family film that still has a feel good feel to it...

A trainee witch is looking after a group of children in wartime Britain when her final lesson in witchcraft doesn't arrive... What follows is a search for the final spell on a magical bed... Trying to stop a German invasion and a fair bit of singing and dancing...

Angela Lansbury stars, in a role far removed from the character that she would later become famous for and puts in a great performance as the novice witch...

A live action and cartoon film that works really well when the two bend together, and is just the sort of film to bring a smile when things are getting you down...

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Evelyn Waugh and Bryony Lavery

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My theme is memory, that winged host - that soared about me one grey morning of wartime. Billeted to...

Call for the Dead

John Le Carre

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An anonymous letter had accused Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan of being a communist. George...

Goodbye East End: An Evacuee's Story

David Merron

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As Hitler's bombs threatened London during World War Two, eight-year-old David Merron was removed...

A Murder of Quality

John Le Carre

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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“Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?” John le...

David McK (3649 KP) rated A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3) in Books

Sep 7, 2025

Third entry in Simon Scarrow's Criminal Inspector Schenke series, all of which have an unusual setting of being in wartime (WW2) Berlin, with their protagonist a Criminal Investigator member of the German police force (*not* SS).

In this one, it's largely about gang warfare, with CI Schenke and his team (some of whom he has to be very careful around) pulled into the investigation of a murder in Berlin (hence the tile) as Hitler prepares to invade Poland, and finding this murder may be connected to another case they are investigating around forged food coupons.

As before, it's shocking that some of the stuff you read about here - specifically, the with-holding of those (non forged) coupons from the Jewish community - actually happened!