When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate – cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Drama, History, War
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Memory of the Camps (2014) Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Jasper Britton, Adolf Hitler, Sidney Bernstein, Documentary
On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps Read More »
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) Sidney Gilliat, Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Crime, Drama
Oliver Bramwell, an insurance inspector, arrives at Lewis Manor where he is to investigate a fire that broke out there on Christmas Eve. Read More »
Madness of the Heart (1949) Charles Bennett, Margaret Lockwood, Paul Dupuis, Kathleen Byron, Drama, Romance
Lydia Garth meets Paul de Vandiere, a French nobleman, but their romance is plagued by Lydia’s complaint of recurring spells of blurred vision. Read More »
The Lost Continent (1968) Michael Carreras, Leslie Norman, Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Adventure, Fantasy
This film starts out like the Love Boat on acid, as a cast of varied characters, with various issues, take Captain Eric Porter’s leaky cargo ship to escape their troubles. Read More »
The Angry Silence (1960) Guy Green, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Drama
The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. Read More »
Guns at Batasi (1964) John Guillermin, Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, Drama, History, War
Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale is a spit-and-polish, by-the-book disciplinarian Read More »
Im All Right Jack (1959) John Boulting, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Comedy
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Read More »
Pit of Darkness (1961) Lance Comfort, William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Crime, Thriller
When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Read More »
This Was Paris (1942) John Harlow, Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, War, Drama
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other. Read More »
The Ogre (1996) Volker Schlöndorff, John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Drama
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges loves kids, and would like to protect them against the grown-ups. Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Biography, Drama, History
In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »
Murder in the Cathedral (1951) George Hoellering, John Groser, Alexander Gauge, David Ward, Drama
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation Read More »