Members of a natural history society in the south of England Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
South Riding (1938) Victor Saville, Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn
“Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings Read More »
Runners (1983) Charles Sturridge, Kate Hardie, James Fox, Jane Asher
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her. Read More »
Footsteps (2006) Gareth Evans, Nicholas Bool, Mads Koudal, Jared Morgan
A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman Read More »
Sunstruck (1972) James Gilbert, Harry Secombe, Maggie Fitzgibbon, John Meillon
Stanley Evans is a Welsh teacher who heads to Australia after an unsuccessful romance. Read More »
Dual Alibi (1947) Alfred Travers, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney
Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge. Read More »
The Sundowners (1960) Fred Zinnemann, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family–Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean–are sheep drovers, always on the move. Read More »
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) Jack Lee, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen
Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer Read More »
Lisbon Story (1946) Paul L. Stein, Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist. Read More »
An Independent Life AKA Samostoyatelnaya zhizn (1992) Vitali Kanevsky, Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Toshihiro Vatanabe
In this sequel to Freeze-Die-Come to Life, our hero (Pavel Nazarov) Read More »
The Vicar of Bray (1937) Henry Edwards, Stanley Holloway, Hugh Miller, K. Hamilton Price
Musical set in the Civil War period about a vicar who, by adjusting his policies Read More »
Nina’s Heavenly Delights (2006) Pratibha Parmar, Laura Fraser, Shelley Conn, Art Malik
Shelley Conn plays Nina, a young woman who ran away to London to avoid an arranged marriage. Read More »
The Hornet’s Nest (1955) Charles Saunders, Paul Carpenter, June Thorburn, Marla Landi
In this comedy adventure, a jewel thief hides his latest goods in a deserted barge, but ends up in jail. Read More »
The Dictator (1935) Victor Saville, Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams
The story opens in Copenhagen in the year 1776 on the wedding night of the King Read More »
The Statue (1971) Rod Amateau, David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he’s a sudden sensation Read More »