A flop when it was released 50 years ago, ‘Cisco Pike’ wasn’t just the singer-songwriter’s first starring role, says Leonie Cooper, it deserves to be heralded as one of the Seventies’ best films
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ opens in cinemas this week, with Hanks playing Elvis Presley’s manager. It’s not his usual saintly role but, says Geoffrey Macnab, it’s just one of many casting stunts used by filmmakers to play with audience’s expectations
As the last film in the franchise, ‘Carry on Columbus’, turns 30, Geoffrey Macnab looks back on what made the innuendo-filled, bawdy movies so popular – and whether they would stand up today
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