I haven’t added many titles to my series of 1960s retrospective film reviews recently, but there will be more. This is from 1964, RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN. (FOLLOW LINK TO REVIEW) It’s the film version of the Charles Dyer play, and starred Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento and Michael Medwin. It’s just come out in a bright, sharp restored transfer on DVD and blu-ray. It’s the story of a Manchester football fan and an evening in Soho after the match. He’s 39 and never been kissed. She is probably on the game. Not the football sort of game. It’s very much of its time, with the cliche of the naïve Northerner in the big city.
