“The Angry Silence has everything that the critics have said British films lack. The subject matter is contemporary, and shot in an industrial setting with a black and white naturalism. It deals with a social problem and has a working class hero.” read more
“The Savage Eye, the marquee announces. Winner of Roy Thomson award at Edinburgh Film Festival. Raw. Gripping. Nakedly honest. (Blurbs from London reviews). I go in, doubtful.” read more
“nevile shute expected the third world war to begin (and end) next year, 1961; and within a few months of the end of the war (which will last approximately 37 days) the entire human race will be burned, blasted or, if they are outside the battle areas, . . .” read more
“no-one ever uses the little cinema’s official name, a Greek-French hybrid suggesting racecourses and leopardskin seats. It was opened some forty years ago as the Bug House, and the Bug House it will remain to the natives.” read more