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Completed in 1955, Momma Don’t Allow was the first film by future feature film directors Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson, each having come from very different backgrounds. Richardson had risen up the ranks through BBC TV, whereas Reisz was programmer of the NFT (National Film Theatre) and author of The Technique of Film Editing, a standard textbook for several decades, so it’s no surprise Momma Don’t Allow is both an editorial experiment and subtle comment on class behaviour within the Wood Green jazz Club in North London.

Filmed over nine evenings, on the surface it’s a montage of dancing youths and young adults while the Chris Barber Band plays straightforward Dixieland jazz. One onscreen performance has partial sync sound, but like many of the Free Cinema efforts on Disc 1, the music is subjugated by images, which in Momma, string together men and women as they finish up their working class jobs, get dolled up, and head out to a jazz club for some dancing and drinking.

On one level, Momma is a snapshot of various youths assembling under one roof to dance, socialize, stare, ogle, posture and blow off steam after a long day in dullsville, but things get a bit more interesting when a group arrive in the chauffeur-driven limo, with the driver grabbing and pocketing the hood ornament for safekeeping. The upper-class girl in the group doesn’t become the doc’s focus, but the filmmakers keep cutting back to her efforts to co-mingle, and one sees a well-off lass blending with the locals, getting a bit tipsy, and being completely outshone by better dancers.

The others maintain actual choreography with their partners, whereas the lass lazily pirouettes with her long and increasingly annoying shawl, and she’s passed on to other men more out of frustration and boredom than anything else. She eventually leaves with her group and heads home in her snazzy sedan, but Reisz and Richardson play with the footage and discreetly comment on the kids, the adults, the Teddy Boys, and the rich folk who manage to find their own satisfaction when at any time outside of the club walls, they’d likely maintain formal class divisions and prejudices.

The doc goes on longer than it should, but the Chris Barber band is decent, and some classic blues tunes give the doc a bit of juice when the montages of sweaty, dancing couples gets a bit tiresome.

Richardson would flip back to TV before directing his feature film debut, Look Back in Anger in 1958, whereas Reisz would direct another youth-centric short, We Are the Lambeth Boys (1958), before making his own feature length splash with the superb ‘angry young man’ film, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1960.

	
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Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

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From Karel Reisz, the renowned director of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Night Must Fall, Isadora, The Gambler, Who’ll Stop the Rain, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Sweet Dreams, comes this cult classic starring screen great Vanessa Redgrave (Julia, Mary, Queen of Scots) and legendary character actor David Warner (Cross of Iron, Perfect Friday) in one of his few starring roles. A gorilla-fixated artist with distinctly anarchist tendencies, Morgan (Warner) tries to regain the affections of his divorced wife Leonie (Redgrave) by variously kidnapping her, attempting to blow up her future mother-in-law and attacking her fiancé (Robert Stephens, Sherlock Holmes of Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes). Cut with scenes from King Kong and Tarzan films, Morgan’s depiction of madness, dark humor and vintage performances made it one of the wildest, funniest and most provocative comedies of the ’60s. Nominated for two Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Redgrave) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Jocelyn Rickards).

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Ray Hicks (Nolte) is an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam first in combat and now as a merchant seaman, which allows him to come and go between Vietnam and the US. This provides him a unique opportunity to smuggle things from Southeast Asia to home, but he’s never done anything like the request from his journalist friend John Converse (Michael Moriarty, in another laid back but outstanding performance): bring 2 kilos of pure heroin from Vietnam and deliver it to his wife at home, and collect a cool 10 grand for his efforts. What seemed an easy way to make some quick cash just as quickly spirals out of control, as John Converse’s wife Marge (Tuesday Weld) is attacked by two thugs (Richard Masur and Ray Sharkey) who want to steal the heroin for themselves and their corrupt cop boss (Anthony Zerbe). Hicks shows up in time to thwart the attack, but now they’re on the run while John returns and is kidnapped to force Hicks’s hand. A mountaintop commune will provide the backdrop for the stunning confrontation.

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Albert Finney stars in this 1964 psychological thriller, as a psychotic killer who murders a woman then becomes the handy man at a local house where his girlfriend works. Once there he proceeds to slowly torment the old lady who owns the house and attempts to seduce her granddaughter.

Allmovie.com:
“Albert Finney stars in this second film version of Emlyn Williams thriller about an innocent looking but psychopathic killer named Danny. Danny is a Welsh hotel bellboy who commits an axe murder near the home of Mrs. Bramson (Mona Washbourne), a well-to-do widow. Danny disposes of the body in a nearby lake and charms Mrs. Bramson and her maid Dora (Sheila Hancock) into allowing him to stay with them. At Mrs. Bramson’s home, Danny plays psychological games with Mrs. Bramson while seducing her daughter Olivia (Susan Hampshire).”

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The sights and sounds of industrial Nottingham resonate with a grimy thud as Arthur Seaton works his tedious factory job. Through ale, women and practical jokes, he vents his frustrations against the “establishments” of work and marriage… until his reckless ways lead him to a night that changes his life. Forced to reevaluate his convictions, Arthur must decide exactly what he stands for.

+Commentary by film historian Robert Murphy, with writer Alan Sillitoe and cinematographer Freddie Francis

1.81GB | 1h 29m | 960×576 | mkv

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