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Creator of some of Gainsborough Pictures' best-known melodramas, Leslie Arliss was well chosen to helm this atmospheric thriller, made in 1947. Boasting cinematography by Oscar winner Georges Perinal and an early film ro…

When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers to act as bait for th…

Based on a story by Terence Rattigan, Bond Street is a compelling portmanteau drama which tells the secret story of a wedding day – with four vignettes revealing the hidden tales behind each of its most essential items.…

Michael Crawford stars as a luckless, inexperienced youth desperate to break out of a sexual catch-22 in this effervescent, sharply observed comedy from Roy Baker; Nyree Dawn Porter is the young woman who might just be a…

A strong cast features in actor-director Lionel Jeffries' emotional drama about a young boy facing the combined challenge of his parents' disintegrating marriage, relocation to London, and an ongoing attempt to overcome…

Directed by Laurence Olivier and featuring a specially commissioned score by composer William Walton, this filmed production of Anton Chekhov's classic play by London's world-renowned National Theatre Company is featured…

A transatlantic principal cast lends classic film noir appeal to this stylish, cleverly plotted thriller adapted from a story (and earlier television serial) by Francis Durbridge one of Britain's most successful crime wr…

Boasting a classic comedy cast, Women Aren t Angels reunites legendary Aldwych Theatre farceurs Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton as a couple of music publishers who find themselves unwittingly embroiled in an espionage…

American screen siren Hillary Brooke is a consummate femme fatale in this British noir thriller of 1954 – an early feature by Emmy-winning writer-director Ken Hughes (adapting his own novel, High Wray), and one of a seri…

Sean Connery gives another powerful and charismatic performance as a Scandinavian security chief battling to thwart the deadly plans of a terrorist leader, played by Ian McShane. Beautifully photographed by double Oscar-…

This ultra-rare musical film of 1966 tells the story of a rock and roll hopeful searching for his big break. Following the young singer as he goes from studio to studio with his girlfriend and attempts to convince radio…

A triumph for British director Philip Leacock, this profoundly moving film recounts a universal story of friendship between two children, and the testing of that friendship by religious differences and entrenched prejudi…

A family riddled with resentment, avarice and fear; a house haunted by the victim of a cold-blooded murder...Featuring the cinema debut of Oscar nominee Laurence Harvey and boasting a haunting score by George Melachrino,…

This lively romantic comedy stars Golden Globe winner Nancy Kwan as a girl who s determined to establish a notorious past with which to face a respectable future! Made in 1963 and featuring an array of British comedy tal…

One of several features pairing British screen sweetheart Anna Neagle with the ever-popular Michael Wilding, this jaunty 'upstairs-downstairs' romantic comedy could hardly have failed to triumph at the box-office, and Sp…

This marvellously entertaining, tongue-in-cheek musical romp stars Frank Ifield as a talented young Australian singer who moves to London in search of his big break, tries to woo a top model while seemingly overlooking t…

The incomparable Terry-Thomas heads the cast of this rare domestic farce directed by Brian Desmond Hurst – best-known for the 1951 box-office triumph Scrooge. Also starring Carry On legends Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims an…

A massive box-office hit, this romantic drama set in World War Two and its aftermath is an emotional tour de force that marked the first screen pairing of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding, who would become one of Britain'…

Invallen om te lachen' is het motto van deze kleurrijke komedie in oorlogstijd - een kassucces in 1959 voor Gilbert Gunn, regisseur van Girls at Sea, met een topcast met Donald Sinden, Dora Bryan en Barbara Murray, en ee…

From playful romantic comedies to variety extravaganzas, the British musical films of the 1930s offered audiences a source of much-needed escapism throughout the decade haunted by the Great Depression and the growing men…