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Category Archives: India
ALL-CONSUMING FIRE by Andy Lane
This audio production is an adaptation of the 1994 novel by Andy Lane that brought together Sherlock Holmes and, wait for it, Doctor Who. In addition there are also elements of the HP Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos too. Now, I realise … Continue reading
Top 25 Courtroom Movies
As I have blogged before, I love legal drama on the screen. Maybe it’s because I trained to be a lawyer (in the interests of full disclosure, my legal background informs the work I do in education in terms of … Continue reading
Posted in 'Best of' lists, Australia, California, England, France, India, Scott Turow, Tuesday's Overlooked Film
Tagged Billy Wilder, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Katharine Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Lee Remick, Merlene Dietrich, Meryl Streep, Nigel Hawthorne, Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Tilda Swinton
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Conduct Unbecoming (1975) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film
This highly unusual military drama is set in 1880s India and stars Stacy Keach, Richard Attenborough and Christopher Plummer with Susannah York as the widow of a regimental hero who accuses an unpopular new recruit of assault. Michael York is … Continue reading