2017 Centennials

I had so much fun last year celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, that I knew I had to continue in 2017.

So, here's my Centennials 2017 project.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2017, to be released at the beginning of 2018.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (22 Dec 2017)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	1970	5	5	Freddie Francis	IMDb

All 2017 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
5 Fingers	1952	6	5	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	IMDb
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.	1953	5	6	Roy Rowland	IMDb
Behind Locked Doors	1948	4	4	Budd Boetticher	IMDb
Blanche Fury	1948	5	5	Marc Allégret	IMDb
Blood on the Moon	1948	5	5	Robert Wise	IMDb
The Blue Veil	1951	5	5	Curtis Bernhardt	IMDb
Chicken Every Sunday	1949	5	5	George Seaton	IMDb
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?	1968	2	2	Don Weis	IMDb
Emperor of the North Pole	1973	5	5	Robert Aldrich	IMDb
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery	1966	4	4	Frank Launder & Sidney Gilliat	IMDb
Helter Skelter	1949	4	4	Ralph Thomas	IMDb
Hotel Berlin	1945	6	6	Peter Godfrey	IMDb
It Always Rains on Sunday	1947	6	6	Robert Hamer	IMDb
The Leopard Man	1943	6	6	Jacques Tourneur	IMDb
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	1970	5	5	Freddie Francis	IMDb
The Naked Kiss	1964	6	6	Samuel Fuller	IMDb
The Night Walker	1964	5	5	William Castle	IMDb
O, My Darling Clementine	1943	4	4	Frank McDonald	IMDb
Pool of London	1951	6	5	Basil Dearden	IMDb
The Ringer	1952	5	5	Guy Hamilton	IMDb
Santo vs. The Vampire Women	1962	5	5	Alfonso Corona Blake	IMDb
Stay Hungry	1976	5	4	Bob Rafelson	IMDb
That Obscure Object of Desire	1977	6	5	Luis Buñuel	IMDb
The Time Travelers	1964	5	5	Ib Melchior	IMDb