71% (2) The Killing of Sister George 138 min, X, [Drama] [Robert Aldrich] [01 Mar 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Beryl Reid, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Susannah York
Writer: Frank Marcus (from the play by), Lukas Heller (screenplay)
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Plot: George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can get is the voice of a cow in a children's tv programme. Her life begins to fall apart as Childie has an affair with a predatory tv producer.
Rotten Tomatoes: Highly controversial at the time of its release, Robert Aldrich's bitter comedy-drama stars Beryl Reid as a soap opera star who is engaged in a dissolving lesbian relationship with an aspiring young actress (Susannah York).
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51% (2) Sinful Davey 95 min, M/PG, [Adventure, Comedy, Crime] [John Huston] [07 May 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 43%, External Reviews
Actors: John Hurt, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Franklin, Ronald Fraser
Writer: James R. Webb
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Plot: Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is handicapped by the fact that his childhood playmate Annie is equally determined to track him down and save his soul...
Rotten Tomatoes: Davey Haggart (John Hurt) wishes to follow his father's footsteps and become a highway robber. He also wishes to avoid his father's fate -- which was death by hanging at the tender age of 21 after a botched robbery of the Duke of Argyle (Robert Morley). Davey commits a daring robbery in broad daylight with the help of two henchmen (Ronald Fraser and Fidelma Murphy) and heads for the highlands of Scotland to hide out. The local Constable (Nigel Davenport) warns young Davey he will end up just like his father but helps him escape the fate of dancing on the end of a rope. Annie (Pamela Franklin) is the kind-hearted farm girl who tries to make sweet Davey give up a life of crime and settle down. This comedy was taken from the autobiographical diary"The Life Of David Haggart." ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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45% (2) Fathom 99 min, Approved, [Adventure, Comedy] [Leslie H. Martinson] [09 Aug 1967]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, Rotten Tomatoes: 33%, External Reviews
Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch, Richard Briers, Ronald Fraser
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay), Larry Forrester (novel)
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Plot: In Southern Spain with a U.S. team, skydiver Fathom Harvill is approached by a Scottish colonel working for a top-secret Western agency. He's after a vital lost atomic device, and wants her to parachute into a house occupied by some Red Chinese agents to help get the thing back. Apart from all this there is a predatory continental doctor on his yacht to take account of. Fathom soon realizes nothing is what it seems to be, but can she fathom the truth out?
Rotten Tomatoes: Raquel Welch breaks the surly bonds of Earth and loves every minute of it in this lighthearted spy spoof. Fathom Harvill (Welch) is an American skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team when she's approached by Douglas Campbell (Ronald Fraser), a Scottish agent working with American intelligence. According to Campbell, a triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons has gone missing in the Mediterranean, and Douglas wants Fathom to help find it. After encountering Chinese operative Peter Merriweather (Anthony Franciosa), Fathom discovers that Campbell is actually a private eye and that she's been tricked into helping him snag some jewelry. But what's the whole truth, and whose side is Fathom supposed to be on? ~ Rovi
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72% (1) The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer 100 min, R, [Comedy] [Kevin Billington] [23 Jul 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Beach, Denholm Elliott, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Peter Cook, Ronald Fraser, Vanessa Howard
Writer: Peter Cook (screenplay), John Cleese (screenplay), Graham Chapman (screenplay), Kevin Billington (screenplay)
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Plot: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
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66% (1) The Punch and Judy Man 96 min, [Comedy] [Jeremy Summers] [08 Apr 1963]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Barbara Murray, Ronald Fraser, Sylvia Syms, Tony Hancock
Writer: Phillip Oakes (screenplay), Tony Hancock (screenplay), Tony Hancock (story idea)
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Plot: Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.
Rotten Tomatoes: Tony Hancock, as big a comedy star as it was possible to be in the Britain of 1963, decided to pull a "Charlie Chaplin" with The Punch and Judy Man. He plays an end-of-pier seashore entertainer who is loved by children but reviled by adults. Hancock's efforts to establish himself as a man of importance invariably end in disappointment and despair. Not even Tony Hancock's legion of fans could be persuaded to drink up the bathos ladled out in The Punch and Judy Man. Ironically, Hancock in real life ended up committing suicide in 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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65% (1) Swallows and Amazons 92 min, Not Rated, [Adventure, Family] [Claude Whatham] [01 May 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Ronald Fraser, Simon West, Suzanna Hamilton, Virginia McKenna
Writer: David Wood (screenplay), Arthur Ransome (book)
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Plot: On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
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56% (1) Crooks in Cloisters 97 min, [Comedy, Crime] [Jeremy Summers] [11 Aug 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, External Reviews
Actors: Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Grégoire Aslan, Ronald Fraser
Writer: T.J. Morrison (screenplay), Mike Watts (screenplay), Mike Watts (from an original story by)
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Plot: Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy, crooks on the lam hide-out in an abandoned island monastery. Along with their leader, the robbers put on monks' habits and begin living a quiet pastoral existence centered around raising animals and crops. Trouble ensues when one of the "brothers" is caught gambling in town.
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