An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Term of Trial (1962) Peter Glenville, Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles
Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during World War II Read More »
Red Ensign (1934) Michael Powell, Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). Read More »
The National Health (1973) Jack Gold, Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron
The British National Health System is skewered in this comedy set in a rundown London hospital. Read More »
Witchfinder General (1968) Michael Reeves, Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. Read More »
It’s in the Bag (1944) Herbert Mason, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Ernest Butcher
The popular British music hall and radio team of Gert and Daisy (Elsie and Doris Waters) heads the cast of It’s in the Bag. Read More »
Ourselves Alone (1936) Brian Desmond Hurst, Walter Summers, Antoinette Cellier, Niall MacGinnis, Maire O’Neill
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland Read More »
The Long Dark Hall (1951) Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Tania Heald
Arthur Groome works in London and has a devoted family in Richmond. Read More »
The Man in the Road (1956) Lance Comfort, Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit
A man suffering from amnesia is held at an English country estate, used as a sanatorium. Read More »
Escape Route (1952) Seymour Friedman, Peter Graham Scott, George Raft, Sally Gray, Frederick Piper
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain Read More »
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) Stanley Kwan, Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality Read More »
The House That Mary Bought (1995) Simon MacCorkindale, Susan George, Ben Cross, Charlotte Valandrey
When a brilliant artist and her husband become subject to a series of bizarre occurrences in their isolated house Read More »
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) Clive Donner, Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower) Read More »
Tabloid (2001) David Blair, Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Hurt
A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own. Read More »
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940) Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »