Movie: The Critic

Top 10 Billed Cast

Hywel Bennett
Hywel Bennett

Mr. Puff / Mr. King

Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne

Mr. Sneer

Norman Rodway
Norman Rodway

Mr. Dangle

Rosemary Leach
Rosemary Leach

Mrs. Dangle

John Gielgud
John Gielgud

Lord Burleigh

Alan Badel
Alan Badel

Sir Fretful Plaigary

Anna Massey
Anna Massey

Tilburina

Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes

Constable

Christopher Biggins
Christopher Biggins

Interpreter

Clive Francis
Clive Francis

Sheridan (Prologue)

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.

  • Release Date

    1982-08-28

  • Average

    0

  • Rating:

    0.0 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
  • Keywords

Similar Movies

Don't Blame the Stork
0%

Don't Blame the Stork(en)

1954-01-01

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.

Dirty Work
0%

Dirty Work(en)

1934-12-07

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

Carry On Cabby
64%

Carry On Cabby(en)

1963-06-01

Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!

Three Day Millionaire
46%

Three Day Millionaire(en)

2022-11-25

A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

Fun at St. Fanny's
53%

Fun at St. Fanny's(en)

1955-12-15

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.

It's a Bet
0%

It's a Bet(en)

1935-02-01

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.

Not Now Darling
62%

Not Now Darling(en)

1973-03-01

A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.

Well-Off People
48%

Well-Off People(it)

2014-01-30

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life.

High School
55%

High School(en)

1940-01-26

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.

Herzblatt oder wie sag' ich's meiner Tochter?
33%

Herzblatt oder wie sag' ich's meiner Tochter?(de)

1969-09-29

Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning naked, he feels he has to take action. In the hope she'll learn herself what consequences the difference between boys and girls has, he tries to get her a boyfriend.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
73%

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay(en)

1944-11-02

In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.

And the Angels Sing
70%

And the Angels Sing(en)

1944-04-25

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.

Cuti-cuti Cinta
0%

Cuti-cuti Cinta(ms)

2010-10-21

Eava Eliana (Nora Danish) is a director in one of the company that her father Tan Sri Zaini (Zaibo) owns. As a single child, she is pampered since childhood. Upon returning from studying abroad, she starts to work in her father’s company. Tan Sri Zaini’s close friend Datuk Hamzah plans to marry Eava with his playboy son Remy (Zed Zaidi) in order to control Tan Sri Zaini’s wealth. Things turn awry as Eava catches Remy kissing another woman, which forces Eava to leave town abruptly. Upon reaching her hotel, she meets Omar Rudy (Farid Kamil), a hotel staff who accommodates her complaints, even being her tour guide at a small town. Things take a turn for the worse when a typhoon hit the sea, forcing Omar and Eava to camp in a secluded island in the middle of the ocean.

The Plasterers
50%

The Plasterers(en)

1929-12-28

A bizarre comedy short in which knockabout comics Charles O'Donnell and Jack Blair show up to repair a woman's house, but spend more time wrecking things and doing pratfalls. There's even a pantomime horse that causes trouble!

Dua Kali Lima
0%

Dua Kali Lima(en)

1966-01-01

The film tells the bickering between Kulop Great and Small Kulop. Both of them operate a tailoring shop. In order to attract customers, many ways to do them ...

Duhai Si Pari Pari
0%

Duhai Si Pari Pari(en)

2009-12-31

Meek and mild-mannered gas station attendant Saadon (Que Haidar) has never fallen in love. The one time he falls for Mala (Nabila Huda), she conspires with Budi (Remy Ishak) to make off with his savings. When Saadon finds himself beaten up by Budi in a back alley, he chances upon a magic teapot that is inhabited by a genie, Pari Pari (Liyana Jasmay). Love is possible. However, the genie's father, Para Para (Harun Salim Bachik) is tracking her. Hoping to find romance, the genie refuses to return to her realm and is ready to accept the genie's curse of eternal oblivion should she fail in love once more.

Fighting to Live
0%

Fighting to Live(en)

1934-04-06

When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.

Heeralaal Pannalaal
55%

Heeralaal Pannalaal(hi)

1978-10-09

The movie starts with two innocent and kind hearted guys named Heeralal and Pannalal. They are famous among criminals as they have helped police in capturing them several times. Heeralal is in search of his parent’s killer but has no idea of him at all. Pannalal is in search of his father. Heeralal meets with a girl named Ruby and falls in love with her. Pannalal falls in love with Ruby’s friend, Neelam. Kalicharan, who is a renowned criminal has decided to teach a lesson to Heeralal and Pannalal for interfering in their business. But instead Kalicharan is forced to run from the police. Police commissioner, Premlal is very happy with the guys and wants to protect them from Kalicharan and his friend, Panther’s anger.