24 FEBRUARY 1973, page 17

Cinema

Up from under Christopher Hudson The Other Side of the Underneath (' X ' Paris-Pullman) is one of the most awful, badly-made, dreary, repellent films I have ever seen. And yet......

Television

Solo flight Clive Gammon The Wild Dogs of Africa, in the BBC 2 series The Woad About Us, came very close to being a remarkable piece of television, as far above the normal level......

Will Waspe

The Times is being extraordinarily coy about revealing who is to be the paper's new film critic, and naturally I dislike betraying a secret, but the anxious faces and bitten......