Recent miscellaneous viewing
A random selection of recent viewing, from Nazi propaganda to British Angry Young Men, from classic sci-fi to the 1960s revival of a French criminal mastermind as slapstick […]
Review: Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Bryan Marshall,
Andrew Keir
James Donald
Barbara Shelley
Julian Glover
Bryan Marshall
Plot: A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
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Nigel Kneale & British genre television
British TV has always been primarily a writer’s medium; since the ’50s, the biggest stars have tended to be the writers, with writers’ names attached possessively to projects. Television production was often built around writers […]