My Cousin Rachel (1952)

A sumptuous adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance, but Phillip, who suspects his 'cousin' Rachel conspired first against his late Uncle Ambrose and now against him for the family's Cornwall estate, is portrayed by Richard Burton as such a dunderhead - insipid, delusional, violent, naive, and let's face it, a likely xenophobe - that from the word go modern viewers' sympathies rest not with him but with the possibly conniving, possibly murderous Rachel.

★★★☆☆

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Lady In A Cage (1964)

Olivia de Havilland uses facial expressions to convey the spectrum of emotions, but mostly terror, that comes from her being stuck a couple of metres above the ground in an elevator cage, in this unwatchable pulp, a "suspense thriller" not made any more interesting by the crazed looters running amok below her (especially considering it would be scarier if she were on the ground with them...) 

☆☆☆☆☆ (No stars)

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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

As a kid I sat up into the early hours secretly watching this grisly 1960s southern gothic horror and the story of traumatised Charlotte with her Lizzie Borden-style childhood gave me the worst nightmares a movie has ever given me! 

★★★★☆

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