Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life Read More »
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This England (1941) David MacDonald, Emlyn Williams, John Clements, Constance Cummings
This British- National-Anglo American production reinforces the theme that whoever assails Read More »
Tarnished Heroes (1961) Ernest Morris, Dermot Walsh, Anton Rodgers, Patrick McAlinney
In this wartime drama, a band of soldiers prefer to drink, steal, and leave the army to fighting. Read More »
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) Don Chaffey, Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Laurence Naismith
A young Scottish girl’s cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. Read More »
Part-Time Wife (1961) Max Varnel, Anton Rodgers, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth J. Warren
Insurance salesman Tom and his wife Jenny are struggling through the first years of marriage in a modest flat, on Tom’s even more modest salary. Read More »
Seven Days to Noon (1950) John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Barry Jones, André Morell, Olive Sloane
An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. Read More »
Two Deaths (1995) Nicolas Roeg, Sonia Braga, Patrick Malahide, Ion Caramitru
Set during a recent European revolution, when the students have just begun to rise Read More »
Hunger (2008) Steve McQueen, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike. Read More »
SOS Pacific (1959) Guy Green, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson
A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner Read More »
The Doctor and the Devils (1985) Freddie Francis, Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy
In the Nineteenth Century, the renowned professor of anatomy Dr. Thomas Rock gives classes to neophyte medicine students Read More »
Lord Jim (1965) Richard Brooks, Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens
James Burke, after distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine Read More »
Happy Is the Bride (1958) Roy Boulting, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Read More »
Spy Story (1976) Lindsay Shonteff, Michael Petrovitch, Philip Latham, Don Fellows
A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications Read More »
The Big Blockade (1942) Charles Frend, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, John Stuart
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. Read More »
Bulldog Jack (1935) Walter Forde, Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson
Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car crashes and Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth. Read More »