Tomorrow Never Dies (1997 Roger Spottiswoode)

Begins well at an International Arms Bazaar, which sounds more fun than it looks. Bond has to steal a jet fighter to stop a nuclear explosion. Then in a rather chilling scene, a British destroyer is attacked and sunk and the survivors executed. This is all the work of evil media tycoon Jonathan Pryce.

Then we're introduced to Bond's remote control BMW and all credibility flies out of the window. There's a scene with this in a car park which is just interminable, with all these bad guys popping out of the woodwork everywhere, and that's the hallmark of the film as it goes along. There's a later chase scene involving a motorbike and pursuing Range Rovers which just never seem to stop coming. The last twenty minutes are endless shoot-outs and explosions that go on and on and are just so boring.

I'm not quite sure what the media tycoon has to gain in bringing about an Anglo-Chinese war, either. Bruce Feirstein is the writer.

Notable for its gallery of great British supporting actors including Judi Dench, Colin Salmon and Samantha Bond, but also encompassing Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Fellowes, Julian Rhind-Tutt (what?? where??), Michael Byrne, Pip Torrens, Hugh Bonneville, and Jason Watkins!

Bond's birds are Michelle Yeoh and Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), with Ricky Jay and Gotz Otto as bad guys. Bond is Pierce Brosnan.

Photographed by Robert Elswit, edited by Michel Arcand and Dominique Fortin, music by David Arnold. Cheryl Crowe wrote and sang the theme tune.

The Blame (2026 Megan Gallagher)

The novel was written by the Telegraph's Money editor Charlotte Gifford and was published under the name Charlotte Langley, It was optioned for TV before it had even been published. It was at first a thriller; the misogyny angle was secondary. Then when it was adapted for TV, Megan Gallagher added the real text messages that had been found on (now fired) police officers' phones. Accordingly, and unlike The Morning Show, the issues don't overbalance the storyline.

Good cast all round: Michelle Keegan, Douglas Booth, Ian Hart, Nathan Mensah (his first appearance - one to watch), Nigel Boyle (the IT guy), Joe Armstrong, Matilda Freeman as the murdered girl. Gavin Spokes and Josh Bolt are the vile detectives and Ceallach Spellman has to watch out if he's not going the same way. It was directed by Bex Rycroft and Claire Tailyour (three each).

6 x 45 for Quay Productions on ITV. It was Wendy's birthday and we were going to watch 'something sweet'. We tried various unsatisfactory things, then landed on this and were hooked - watched it all in one go.

Richard Gere double bill: Internal Affairs (1990 Mike Figgis) / Pretty Woman (1990 Garry Marshall)

The first was released in the US in January, the second in March.  In Mike Figgis's film he plays a unredeemable corrupt cop who is happy to stoop to murder. I'm not quite sure what he thought he was doing at the end, which loses the plot finally. Andy Garcia though turns almost as psycho as he. Laurie Melcalfe helps investigate. Features a number of big haired women including Nancy Travis (Garcia's wife) and Annabella Sciorra.

It was written by Henry Bean. John A Alonzo shot it and Robert Estrin edited. Had me thinking of the much superior LA Confidential.

Pretty Woman is always a delight, particularly the smallest reactions of the smallest actors: the elevator boy, the shop girls, the waiter who catches the snail, the offended woman at the races.

Julia's 'Holy shit!' moment made us both think of Wendy:

Halloween (2018 David Gordon Green & co-scr)

Over-edited to the point of madness. And so lacking in the original's slow and brilliant build-up.

Some nice touches, e.g. where she's fallen out of the window and he's at the window - a flip of the ending of the original.

But really... no.

Did I know there was also a 2007 version by someone called Rob Zombie, that apparently gives Michael Myers more back story? It has reviews.

Ted Lasso - Season 4 (2026 Sudeikis / Hunt / Kelly)

Of course Ted will go back to Richmond to train the girls' team. Of course he will take his son with him.

The way he gets his young supermarket colleague to stop stealing cigarettes is inspired indeed.

Will Tanya Reynolds stay on as assistant coach? Of course she will! (We know her from Sex Ed, Emma., Fanny Lye Deliver'd, The Other Bennet Sister). Will Roy and Keeley get back together? Of course they fucking will! (Despite presence of Laura Haddock.)

Tracey Ullman is a crazy sponsor.

I loved the All the President's Men episode (who's buying up the club shares?) And Roy's 'speech' and he and Keeley. And Rebecca having to instantly improvise being an American secretary.

The twins' Irish duet is surely a highlight.

The Split Up (2026 Ursula Rani Sarma)

Meet the Indian lawyer firm family: dad Sanjeev Bhaskar, high achieving daughter Ritu Arya and her soon-to-be Danny Ashok, gay brother Arian Nik, eldest daughter and mum Aysha Kala and her husband Tom Forbes. Mix in one night stand and new associate partner Dimitri Leonidas and mysterious rival lawyer Shalini Peris. Debbie Rush good as super-efficient PA; Mawaan Rizwan as Nik's 'friend'.

Yes, it's all quite entertaining. Arya sure does blow hot and cold with Dimitri. (He's a model of restraint.) Shalini is somewhat hostile when you consider her part in it all.  Sanjeev is annoyingly Machiavellian and controlling.

Some good sub-stories include marriage guidance celebs Lenny Henry and Jane Horrocks, whose planned divorce is going to blow up their brand, or a weasel who wants to steal his fiancée's business and internet profile. (She's Jameela Jamil, from The Good Place.)

I must say, in the final of the six episodes, there's an awful lot of nothing going on in the wedding scene... until the last bombshells that Q tells me is going to set Season 2 going.

Forever Home (2026 Clara Salaman)

Graham Norton's novel is about a father with dementia (Douglas Henshall) whose wife has left him, and her name must never be mentioned again by his two kids, who grow up to be Jenny Walser and Lewis Cope. The father has a partner (Amy Nuttall) who discovers a grisly secret in his freezer, then involving her mum Denise Welch. Meanwhile the son's partner, who's a copper (Shane Zaza) is trying to manage a surrogate birth. Of course experienced watchers suspect that it's too obvious for the freezer-body to be the wife... it must be more complex than that. And as usual it then gets into "Is it him?" "Is it her?"

As usual with these things, it's riven with plot holes and implausibilities. For example, why didn't the wife just leave home for six months (rather than twenty years), then come back and say "It didn't work out with the brother-in-law"? And how does she suddenly have enough money to buy the family home? And how come the copper knows all about the surrogate mother's boyfriend but his other half doesn't? And when the latter does reveal it, why didn't the copper say "Yeah, I know - it's all fine"? Maybe these things have only arisen because of the TV adaptation and weren't problems in Graham's novel.

It was quite entertaining and watchable though. Also with Kevin Whately, James Baxter (Walser's very married boyfriend), Nancy Sadsad.

Marble Hall Murders (2026 Anthony Horowitz)

Another playful Atticus Pund murder mystery with most of the cast giving two performances (one in the novel being told, one in the present) - some of which are better than others. Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan are the editor / fiction detective. With Harry Lloyd, Rupert Penry-Jones, Mark Bonnar (somewhat overacting as American), Phoenix Laroche, Zubin Varla, Amelia Bullmore, Claire Rushbrook, Danny Sapani (DI), Anneika Rose (frustratingly hostile DS). Actually filmed in Corfu, and in Dublin and London.

Some of it is a bit tiring to watch with it jumping all over the place, but those jumps are very artfully pulled off.

Crash Dive (1943 Archie Mayo)

How come they were allowed to make a film in colour in 1943? Because this is a massive ad for the US Navy. 

Somewhat reluctantly, Tyrone Power gets posted to submarine command under experienced Dana Andrews. Of course they are soon buddies. But unfortunately Power has met-cute and fallen for Anne Baxter, not knowing she's Andrews' girlfriend.

An exciting and colourful action scene shot by Leon Shamroy winds things up.

It was written by Jo Swerling from a W.R. Burnett story and made by Fox.

Supporting cast: James Gleason, Dame Mae Whitty, Harry Morgan, and Ben Carter, who sadly died in 1946 from diphtheria, having been a successful talent agent for African-American actors.

Steve Carrell double bill: Dan in Real Life (2007 Peter Hedges) / The Battle of the Sexes (2017 Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)

Dan in Real Life is a real sweet film as widower Carrell meet-cutes Juliette Binoche in a bookshop and falls head over heels immediately... but she's his brother's girlfriend. It's expertly cut by Sarah Flack, who also did many films for Sophia Coppola including  Lost In Translation and more recently Priscilla, as well as The Limey.

Hedges catches family interactions well - note how when Carrell first arrives at the parents' home he encounters all the various other members of the family in one continuous take.

Also when he tells Binoche about his wife a single droplet of water drips down the window pane, like a tear. I don't know if that was deliberate or a lucky mistake but it's fabulous.

Photographed by Laurence Sher.

Hedges made The Same Storm in lockdown, a to-camera piece made using everyday technology. It's on YouTube.

Carrell is funny as a gambling addict who bets Billie Jean King $100k he can beat her at tennis. In the meantime she embarks on an affair with her hairdresser. Emma Stone, Andrea Riseborough, Alan Cumming. Bill Pullman (Sleepless in Seattle, Igby Goes Down), Natalie Morales,  Austin Stowell (husband).

This is also expertly edited by an invisible woman, Pamela Martin, who cut Little Miss Sunshine and Ruby Sparks for Dayton and Faris, as well as Youth in Revolt, Hitchcock, Seberg and King Richard. It was photographed by Linus Sandgren and designed by Judy Becker.

Made me think I'd love to see the Men's and Women's England football teams play against each other.

Rare Window (1954 Alfred Hitchpin)

This time, I listened to it all. It's a sound work of art.

Did wonder - that opening shot that prowls around the apartments - looks like it starts outside but clearly ends up inside. Crane? Must watch again. Oh - I will - at Christmas!

The set design was based on buildings in Christopher Street in The Village

Q was finding the way Kelly was kissing Stewart annoying!

Lewis - Season 9 (2015)

One For Sorrow. Helen Jenkins. Taxidermy video installation and murder. Refreshingly unknown casts in these later films. We meet Hathaway's father, Nicholas Jones.

Hathaway with parting gift from Innocent

Magnum Opus. Chris Murray. Absolutely bananas. If you removed all the sect / alchemy nonsense there's a decent plot underneath. Occupation: 'Professional alchemist'. What?? Maybe the worst one of all? Also I was convinced Honeysuckle Weeks was the culprit but I'd got mixed up with a Silent Witness or some other thing she was in.

What Lies Tangled. Nick Hicks-Beach. Bombs and knot theory. Some lovely filming and editing of slow magnesium / bomb blasts. The explosion to waltz sequence is great - we watched it twice = editor Jamie McCoan, director David Drury,  cinematographer James Friend. David Warner, Zoe Tapper, Ian Puleston-Davies. Lewis doesn't want to go to New Zealand but Hathaway talks him into it. Ahh!

Cued this amusing interaction:

"What am I going to do without my brother?"
Q: "Go to prison."

Lewis - Season 8 (2014)

Not sure they kicked off Entry Wounds that well, really. Lewis has retired but rejoins the team the same day Innocent calls him without telling anyone, thus both Hathaway and Hobson are miffed. Hathaway hasn't resigned after all - not explained  - but has taken the Camino de Santiago then not gone into the final Cathedral - the detective in Lewis would surely want to puzzle this out.

Angela Griffin is the new DS who Hathaway hasn't exactly welcomed, but by the end of The Lions of Nemea they are all sharing pizza together Chez the Lewises. 

The first story involves a farm, a surgeon, animal activists and a shooting in the woods with some ingenuity regarding the origin of the lethal bullets. The second is also ingenious in the way Hathaway works out that a newly discovered Euripides is a fake. The identity of the killer is quite a surprise, from Noel Farragher & Nicholas Hicks-Beach, from an idea by Tahsin Guner. Hathaway has a sort of flirty interest in possible suspect Andrea Lowe.

My acute (and cute) co-pilot informs me that Griffin has been directing episodes of Blue Lights - good for her!

Lewis / Whately writes his capital D funny - the curved bit first, then the straight line.

Beyond Good and Evil. Robbie's alarmed when cop killer Alec Newman is released. Griffin is almost killed but James rescues her with a bag of pork scratchings. Yes - this is nuts. If  her husband had been injured the first thing you'd do is call his mobile. Then when you get to his weirdly deserted place of work, you'd expect to find your injured husband outside or at least somewhere accessible, not in the catacombs. And how would your assailant know you'd go to the catacombs? 

Lewis - Season 7 (2013)

Down Among the Fearful by Simon Block and Catherine Tregenna. A psychic is murdered who is then discovered not to be a psychic at all. Catherine Steadman, Tuppence Middleton, Stukey, Beatie Edney, Dominic Mafham, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Lesley Vickerage.

The moment when Hathaway thinks  he may have been stabbed in the neck with poison is Fox's finest hour. It really shakes him up, actually, and he starts to think about quitting. Fox was making noises about leaving the series, perhaps partly why he's not in the end much.

The Ramblin' Boy by Lucy Gannon had Fox off in Croatia renovating a school - he is called into play when a missing body at a funeral parlour turns into a drugs investigation. Peter Davidson is good as a nasty character, Lia Williams is off her rocker and annoying, Tom Brooke, Taron Egerton. This is a good one. 

But the 'ah' moment comes when Lewis takes Hobson's hand...

And then there's another 'ah' moment when new DC Babou Cesay reveals his connection to Lewis which we thought we remembered from an earlier episode.

And in the season wrap up Intelligent Design a man released from prison is murdered. Hathaway feels himself responsible for the suicide of a young man and decides to resign. Lewis is thinking of packing it all in as well. I wonder if they left it like that in case it was the end for Whately and Fox? Fox was published in 2012 saying that he and Whately had decided to stop to prevent the series becoming 'a bit samey'.

Stephen Churchett both wrote the story and is the murdered man; Helen Jenkins wrote the screenplay. It links to an older crime. Miranda Raison (also in Spooks and HBO series Warrior) is trying to cure Alzheimer's, Edward Fox is a professor.

The Invite (2025 Olivia Wilde)

One of those 'locked room' films that I'm particularly not keen on, like Abigail's Party and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe. Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde aren't getting on; their neighbours Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton come over and reveal themselves to be swingers. An adaptation of a film by Cesc Gay The People Upstairs / Sentimental from 2020. We didn't like it at all, reminded me of another film we couldn't watch, Carnage. Not at all funny.

We liked Booksmart but were similarly underwhelmed by Don't Worry Darling.

The Duchess of Duke Street - Season 2 (1977)

We were delighted to learn that season 2 has another 16 episodes; less delighted that Louisa's long lost brother Martin Shaw turns up for a job and begins to disrupt the entire staff; her mum is also taking the piss, outstaying her welcome at the hotel. Writer Julia Jones.

Then is Jeremy Paul's story, two undergraduates conspire to set up Louisa with their college professor Freddie Jones - he falls for her. Julian Fellowes is one of them!

A chauffeur inherits a fortune - £30,000. Louisa and his employer's nephew try and turn him into a gentleman - we know it isn't going to work. He is Kevin McNally.

In an unusual on location episode, Louisa travels to Charlie's bleak country pile, finds she's uninterested in her own daughter, who's something of a wild one, and that Margaret (Joanna David) is wasting away - turns out anorexia is the culprit but they have no idea what they're dealing with; she dies. Interesting to have this subject matter arising in 1977 - good for them. Maggie Wadey is the writer. Ian Cuthbertson and Liz Smith co-star.

T.P McKenna is a famous actor who seduces maid Holly de Jong (not to be confused with Upstairs Downstairs maid Jacqueline Tong) and Louisa sacks her without reference - the kiss of death. I think actually Merriman was responsible as it was normally his job to take up the actor's evening brandy. After a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with prostitution, a kindly policeman takes her back to the hotel and 'encourages' Louisa to change her mind. John Hawkesworth wrote it.

Inevitably, the war comes. In an excellent later episode, 'Tea and a Wad', also written by Hawkesworth, we journey to Bourgogne (or some English dockyard) where Louisa opens up a disused cafe for the troops. This is all the Major's idea, and he proves useful when Mary discovers a young helper is in fact a deserter. But the main event is that Louisa and Charlie meet up again and she agrees to marry him - let's hope he survives the fucking war! (Most of his contemporaries are dead - he's already being described as 'Grandpa'.) Best scene - she goes to tear a strip out of the Adjutant-General (Edward Underdown) and it turns out to be an old mate!

Then Charlie returns... but has a head wound. 'Shadows', written by Jeremy Paul, concludes with end credits that are completely silent - I think I would have gone with the sad variation of the theme but it's undeniably powerful. Geoffrey Bayldon is the artist. Leaving Louisa very much down in the dumps in 'Where There's a Will' by Julia Jones - it's her dad (John Rapley) who's there to force her to pick herself up. Now all we need to worry about is Spanish flu... 

The remaining episodes deal with Louisa trying to bring Lottie, played by Lalla Ward (also the Prince and the Pauper and Dr Who), into society, a difficult job which starts with a Swiss Finishing School. Louisa has a difficult relationship with the girl, who is nice enough but strong-willed, more at home with the staff than society. The girl ends up wanting to become a singer and find her own way. The musical performances are obviously all shot for real. John Rapley good as Louisa's dying father (frequently on TV since 1964).

Finally, Hawkesworth must have known the series wasn't being recommissioned as the last episode (which he also wrote) is both valedictory and very funny. An American writer is tasked with writing Louisa's biography, giving others the opportunity to comment on her; Lottie is extremely frank about her love life, describing one as a 'dirty old poncer'; a couple are bouncing around on pogo sticks in the lobby; and Louisa / Gemma sings us out. Plus one of the cast is credited as 'The Hon. Thingummy-Jig'. And Starr and Mary suddenly get married. It's hilarious. Oh yeah - Merriman wins five hundred quid and becomes a gentleman (for 5 minutes). John Welsh was 65.

We'll miss it.

Lewis - Season 6 (2012)

The Soul of Genius. Rachel Bennette. The one about The Hunting of the Snark. Lewis "I read it last night." "What did you think of it?" "Didn't understand a word." "Maybe that's the point."

Good fun involving brothers' rivalry and the botanical gardens. And the Wednesday Club. Annabel Mullion, Alex Jennings, James Fleet, Mathilda Zeigler. Rather sweet sub-story involving 'Miss Marple' Celia Imrie.

Hathaway gets interested in a woman for ten minutes - great scene where he appears to bow to her and she curtsies back - but sadly it doesn't go anywhere.

Generation of Vipers. Lewis is incensed by muck raking websites and journalists, particularly Daniel Lapaine who's written and acts great as website manager. Plus Toby Stephens, Freddie Fox, Josh O'Connor was in it?? I didn't even notice? Where? Roxanne McKee, Don Warrington.

Fearful Symmetry. Russell Lewis. A babysitter is found dead, posed to look like an art object - one of Lucy Cohu's as it turns out. This happens in 'Arcadia Park'. Then  it turns out character have a shared past through care home 'Box Grove' - is this shades of 'Blenheim Vale' - is Lewis working this out in early draft? I don't know but the story also involves wife-swapping and is good and murky. 

The 'Night Keeper' graphic novel referenced - that Hathaway knows so well - is another divine Russell Lewis invention.

I thought this table was a Clockwork Orange reference, but in fact it's from here:

Allen Jones, 'Hatstand, Table and Chair' which was an influence on the film's design.

The series concludes with Simon Block's The Indelible Stain, early on in which Hathaway asks "Do you have a woman simmering Chez Louis?" There's also a great exchange between he and a bolshie woman suspect when his mobile rings and she says "Wouldn't it be courteous to turn that thing off?" and he replies "I'm at work, not at the theatre". Honestly, some of these people are so up themselves. Professor David Soul is murdered. Nina Sosanya, Patrick Baladi, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Nancy Carroll (as 'Anne Rand'), and David Calder are variously involved.

Lewis - Season 5 (2011)

Murder at college reunion at all-girls St Mathilda, where we've been before in the Endeavour story Zenana (series 7). Then, a fight was going on to keep men out of the college - now they've just been voted in. I thought Russell Lewis might have actually used the same characters, but no. (Though the same house is used, 'Beautiful', from the Pilgrim's Progress.)  Although that is the sort of thing he would do. No, though Lewis (Robbie) has also been here before, failing to solve a case which left a young woman in a coma - he realises they are connected. Its title, Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things is from Wordsworth, 'The Solitary Reaper'.

Juliet Stevenson, Zoe Telford, Stephanie Street, Hattie Morahan and Antonia Campbell-Hughes (known to us from TV's Lead Balloon).

I was marvelling at Hathaway's wall gallery of photos that he's put together from different cameras to establish a timeline, and the fact that all those photos had to be taken in the first place.

Stephen Churchett's Wild Justice involves monks - no, friars - and various murders that are linked to Jacobean (i.e. in the time of King James 1603-1625) revenge stories, the title coming from Francis Bacon - 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice'. The monks - sorry friars - hang out is New College and its Cloisters.

Amelia Bullmore, Ronald Pickup, Sian Phillips. Christopher Timothy, Daniel Ryan, Amanda Ryan (no relation), Sorcha Cusack, Paul Anderson, Nicholas Sidi (creepy friar).

Must make a Cusack family tree photo gallery.

The Mind Has Mountains. Douglas Henshall runs a drug trial when one of the participants is found dead. The culprit is hard to figure out. 

And I'm looking forward to watching The Gift of Promise again, as the intricacies of the plot were somewhat elusive. We spent the whole thing going "Is that Lucy Boynton?" and then not being sure if Lucy Boynton even exists. For cast / more jottings, see here.

There! She does! (I think.)

Lewis - Season 4 (2010)

The Dead of Winter is an interesting episode which Russell Lewis evoked in his later Endeavour film Prey, as we learn that Hathaway's father was the estate manager of a huge property and Hathaway Junior grew up with the children of those distinguished and not. The property is Rousham House and Gardens in Oxfordshire, used in both.

Camilla Arwedson, Pip Carter (the super-efficient butler), Richard Johnson, Nathaniel Parker, Georgia Groome.

One of Russell Lewis's great strengths is to make his stories personal; thus here Hathaway shares tryst with former girlfriend and Lewis has to force him off the case... but the ending - put your heroes in danger. It's one of the best.

Dark Matter, by Stephen Churchett, concerns a death in an observatory and a performance of 'The Planets', and isn't too exciting. Warren Clarke, Robert Hardy (no foolish accents this time), Diana Quick, Annabelle Apsion (Shameless, Call the Midwife).

There's an interesting side story of a man who makes confession to a priest that may help the case, but the priest cannot divulge the sins of the 'penitent' and English Law cannot compel him to do so.

Your Sudden Death Question (great title) is one of Plater's last and isn't as pawky as others, though does evoke And Then There Were None as quiz contestants start to get bumped off in out-of-season college. Alongside this, Hathaway's precious Gibson has been stolen which Innocent eventually realises they have been investigating in parallel (she's smart). Lewis and Hobson would have been going to Glyndeborne had they not been interrupted; they have to settle for fish and chips by the river.

It's nice to see Ruth Gemmell again. Plus Alan Davies, Sally Bretton, Ian Mercer (porter), Nicholas Farrell, Timothy West, Laurence's younger brother Jack Fox (Riviera, Sanditon, Cheaters).

And Russell Lewis rounds off the season with another great episode, a sort of twisted contemporary Grimms tale, which places Holman in the centre of things and has Lewis reluctantly having to suspect her of involvement in the deaths of her friends. But when Laura slips her arm through Robbie's at the end, you know all is well. Rupert Graves is rather good as a drunk artist. With Niamh Cusack. It's set at Halloween and called Falling Darkness. 

We keep noticing good editing. Michael Harrowes, Paul Bond, Jamie McCoan, and Kevin Lester are respectively responsible.

Cromwell (1970 Ken Hughes & scr)

There was an English Civil War and we beheaded our own king. I think that's Big History. And then Cromwell became a kind of dictator without a Parliament. In many ways the most interesting part of the story is what follows - Cromwell's strictly religious Puritan England where celebrations like Christmas and Easter were discouraged, as was the performance of music and plays. Or Cromwell's massacre of innocents in Ireland.

What we're given is an expensive interesting film of most interest I guess seeing Richard Harris scowling and shouting as Cromwell and Alec Guinness being as subtle as ever as Charles.

Those big battle scenes must have cost a fortune and taken ages to film, avoiding English weather these scenes were shot in Spain. Parliament Square was recreated at Shepperton. Geoffrey Unsworth shot it in Panavision with Wilkie Cooper on second unit.

The money shot that opens the picture

Has a good part for Michael Jayston. Also with Dorothy Tutin, Robert Morley, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Magee, Charles Gray, Geoffrey Keen.

Can't believe they'd start a battle with "Shall we say, ten o'clock?" "Let's make it nine - I'm starving!" sort of thing.

Composer: Frank Cordell. Editor: Bill Lenny. Production design: John Stoll. Costumes: Nino Novarone. Columbia.

Ken Hughes was a writer-director known for things like Joe MacBeth (1955), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), and The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), progressed into bigger budget stuff like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Career sank after this.