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After 31 years, the historian's annual evening of films about cricket history has been axed by BFI chairman Greg Dyke

For 31 years, the historian David Frith has mounted an annual evening of mostly black and white film about cricket's history at the British Film Institute. There, you could watch priceless film of players from An Hornby and Victor Trumper to Len Hutton and Don Bradman. Over the years, aficionados such as Harold Pinter and Peter O'Toole could be found mixing with players like Denis Compton and Steve Waugh in the audience. Last year, the BFI dubbed Mr Frith's archive evenings "unimprovable". This year they have been axed by BFI chairman Greg Dyke, who cites the wish to revitalise his programme. As the England XI in Australia struggle to reach totals Hutton once made on his own, and while players bicker and sledge in ways that Trumper – filmed in 1910 accepting a run-out...

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Cinema Retro is very proud to welcome the lovely and talented actress Ingrid Pitt to our ranks of regular columnists. If you're a retro movie lover, Ingrid needs no introduction, thanks to her iconic appearances in films like The Wicker Man, The Vampire Lovers, Countess Dracula, Where Eagles Dare and The House That Dripped Blood. Ingrid will be sharing her stories about the making of her films, as well as essays about movies she loves. In her debut column, Ingrid puts the spotlight on the long-neglected Boston Blackie series.

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By Ingrid Pitt

“Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend’

With a strap like that it is a wonder that anyone turned out in the middle of World War 2 to watch the antics of the leading man, Chester Morris, in the Boston Blackie series of...