British Crime Film Double Bill, Richard Attenborough: BFI Southbank
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Fabulous value here. TWO great looking films at the best cinema in town - for just £5.80.
We're going back to the days of a main feature plus the bonus of a B movie too. These tickets from BFI Southbank are for a screening of two British crime movies starring the living legend Richard Attenborough.
We have an early evening showing which is perfect - time to have a drink or a bite to eat afterwards in the BFI bar while we talk over the films, discuss topical matters, or (yes please) plan a heist.
Our 12 seats are all together. It's in BFI 1 - dead centre, 6 rows back. Best seats in the house.
Under a Tenner's price for the films (incl. fees): £5.80.
The bill sounds cool. British Crime films are a guilty pleasure of mine and likewise Richard Attenborough, who's so-so as a director but a fantastic actor, so I couldn't resist.
The main feature, Dancing with Crime, sounds like a fast paced pulp movie: the BFI says, 'In this worthy addition to the post-war spiv cycle, Attenborough stars as a London cabby out to avenge the murder of his pal by black marketeers. Greasy cafés and seedy dance halls make this an atmospheric gem.'
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The accompanying film is for me unmissable: Box for One, likewise released in 1953. Lasts 25 minutes. 'Unseen for 60 years, this is a true oddity, scripted by Peter Brook, with Attenborough giving a bravura performance as a crook making increasingly panicky calls from the confines of a phone booth. Convincingly claustrophobic.' It's like Phone Booth but you don't have to stare at Colin Farrell's silly face.
So that's 2 films, our fabulous company and a film so rare, it doesn't exist on the internet. The only information about Box for One online - a cast list of 5 actors, one of whom is Sidney James. That's the Sid James. Worth your ticket price right there.