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Ann McMullan's biography of Punch cartoonist PONT (1908-1940) is available on Amazon Kindle for just £1.99. http://tinyurl.com/PontBiography
Scenes in PRIME CUT you can't unsee even 50+ years later
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Kay Walsh as dresser Nellie Goode steals many a scene from poor Jane Wyman: youtu.be/KU9ZU6csrbQ?...
May 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
1971
May 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Featuring the Russ Meyer favourite Edy Williams as Rae.
May 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Saw this double bill when it opened in London. Sheba Baby took some cuts from the British censors (BBFC), probably to get the 14+ rating.
December 10, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Ladies in Retirement was loosely remade in 1969 as THE MAD ROOM with Shelley Winters and Stella Stevens
December 4, 2024 at 8:19 PM
PONT'S delightful gift in the original 1938 collection of "The British Character Studied and Revealed by Pont" was not the six written portions but the tiny addenda below many of the original drawings.
November 25, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Could this be the greatest Foreword of all time? #PONT's introduction to his first published collection "The British Character Studied and Revealed by Pont"
November 25, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Leslie Banks' Count Zaroff was one of the loopiest villains of all time in The Most Dangerous Game (1932). It turns out he attended Glenalmond College, also the alma mater of Punch cartoonist Graham Laidler (PONT) and H.M. Bateman, creator of "The Man Who..." series, which mainly ran in The Tatler.
November 24, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Wish I could attend this. Road houses are a major plot point in Michael Powell's delightful SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS (1934).
November 15, 2024 at 1:14 PM
I see your point, but take another look at Powell & Pressburger's wartime classics. In this climate, they'd probably also be slammed for kitchen-sinkery and wokitude.
November 15, 2024 at 12:24 AM