Film Reviews by Cato

One for young people this one, clever special effects and excellently played by Jim Carrey. Not a great film but fairly amusing.

Some might say that Lassie films are sentimental, but there are flashes of good filming and excellent efforts from the child actors in all of them, and this one doesn't fail to stir the emotions. One for those who like to look back sometimes.

I was rather looking forward to this film - the title looked like it was going to be a couple of hours of fun. No such thing. In fact it turned out to be anything but. The story involved a domineering father who wanted to make all of his children do everything he thought they should in his alternative quasi hippy way of living. Of course it didn't work, but I won't go any further, as it might spoil things

Takes you back to the days when we had a proper navy sailing around foreign seas and getting into trouble big time. It involves Richard Todd and William Hartnell (1st Doctor Who!) fighting off naughty revolutionaries from China. I won't give it away!

Didn't live up to what the critics said. Found it a bit turgid, and I neither sympathised nor empathised with the characters. Very dark lives in down town Paris.

A moving story of unrequited love, in which two rich Jewish families find themselves on the brink of very hard times in Mussolini's Italy. A rather beautiful film in which love seems fated from the very beginning. I watched it twice.

When you watch a Lassie film you know it's going to be a little on the sentimental side, and what's wrong with that in this troublesome age in which we live. The family in this film has its troubles, and why shouldn't Lassie do her thing and sort them all out in the end? I'd like to think that It's a film that anyone from 9 to 90 ought to like. So there!

This was Bob Hope's third film when he was already 36 (a somewhat late beginner) but he comes over as by far the main character in this rather gentle haunted house horror. I suppose we all got used to far more sinister and nasty horror films later on in the century, but this is a good example of the early efforts in the genre.

Quite literally one of the greatest films in terms of the people in it, there must have been up to a thousand on the cast list. But the main character is so brilliantly acted by Laughton, it's hard to think that anyone could ever do it better, or indeed want to. And Maureen O'Hara is wonderful as Esmeralda, in this her first film, at the age of 19. The supporting cast are all the best that could have acted in such a truly fantastic film. One of the Greatest.