#ken hughes

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

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Jacqueline Bisset "Casino Royale" 1967, de John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath, Richard Talmadge.

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THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (1960) dir. Ken Hughes England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace. (link in title)

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Terror Eyes aka Night School (1981)

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968, Ken Hughes)

11/09/2024

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

"Well, maybe my children like running wild in the street. Did that ever occur to you?"

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Night School (Terror Eyes, 1981)

"There's been another killing."

"Mmm."

"That doesn't seem to surprise you."

"When man kills for the sake of killing, there's no reason why he should stop."

"Do you really believe that man can go out and kill, just like that?"

"Why not? You see, animals kill when they're hungry or when they're threatened. But man is the only animal who destroys his own kind for the sheer pleasure of it."

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Sally Ann Howes and Michael Audreson with director Ken Hughes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

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Let me be clear: I am not okay…

Deep down my soul craves the splendor and magic of watching Ken Hughes 1968 “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” for the first time again

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Escola Noturna, 1981.

aqui apenas legendado.

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On May 13, 1981, Night School debuted in France.

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Victor Mature-Diana Dors "El precio de un hombre" (The long haul) 1957, de Ken Hughes.

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A lesson in terror.

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Movie Review | Casino Royale (Guest, Hughes, Huston, McGrath & Parrish, 1967)

This was a notorious bomb, and what I will say in its defense is that between the overpaid cast, expensive production design and general sense of visual clutter, you can see where the money went. It consistently looks lavish, and at times, such as the Mata Bond scenes, Le Chiffre’s psychedelic torture scene (likely inspired by the one in The Ipcress File) and the villain’s lair, quite striking. I’m guessing some of that visual beauty comes from the “Additional Photography” by Nicolas Roeg.

That being said, this is in the vein of star studded spoofs that trade in wackiness over actual jokes and pile on the comedy music in the hope that you don’t notice how few gags there are. (The one musical highlight is “The Look of Love” sung by Dusty Springfield, for which movie received an Oscar nomination.) The cast alternates at extremes of entirely phoned in and extra strength mugging, although there are times, like Deborah Kerr’s Scottish accent, when the lameness of their shtick crosses over into being funny. (Kerr is not the only one doing an accent. Peter Sellers practices a few that he would reuse in The Party and Murder by Death.) A lot of the women here are cast for eye candy, and I won’t pretend that I didn’t enjoy their presences for that reason. But I did appreciate that Barbara Bouchet as Moneypenny has more to do than Lois Maxwell ever did as the character, except maybe in the Bond rip-off Operation Kid Brother, where she played the highly similar but legally distinct character Miss Maxwell.

This is leaden, shapeless and mostly unfunny, but I suppose there’s enough stuff happening that I didn’t entirely zone out, even if it did take me three sittings to finish it.

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Cromwell (Кромвель) Масштабная историко-биографическая драма, идеализирующая заглавного героя, с прекрасным актерским составом.

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Night School aka Terror Eyes aka Les Yeux de la Terreur aka De Ogen van de Angst, directed by Ken Hughes, 1981. Hughes also directed Casino Royale, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Trials of Oscar Wilde, among other films. Terror Eyes was Rachel Ward’s first feature film.