Tag Archives: Victor Saville

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. Read More »

Kim, a young boy living on his own on the streets of India, is actually the son of a British officer. Read More »

A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. Read More »

Hitchhiker Johnny McBride is badly hurt and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Read More »

On a visit to London, 18 year-old American Melinda Greyton goes to her first party, a Regimental ball. Read More »

World War I is raging, but Swedish store clerk Madeleine Goddard (Vivien Leigh) has not aligned herself with either side. Read More »

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Read More »

This early Gainsborough flick is truly a lost treasure, and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. Read More »

Film musical taken from JB Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Read More »

Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Read More »

“Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but ‘the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.’
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The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
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All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property (and simultaneously liquidate some “frozen funds”) with the British-filmed Calling Bulldog Drummond. Walter Pidgeon stars as novelist Sapper’s soldier-of-fortune, here retooled as a respectable retired military officer. Summoned to London by Scotland Yard, Drummond is assigned to break up a dangerous criminal gang. He is aided by female undercover officer Helen Smith (Margaret Leighton), who turns out to be not much help at all. Trapped in a bombed-out building and surrounded by hulking henchmen, Drummond seems to have run out of luck. Some of the film’s brightest moments are provided by David Tomlinson as a traditional “silly ass” type who is lot smarter than he seems. Bernard Lee, the future “M” in the James Bond films of the 1960s, appears as a secondary villain.
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The story opens in Copenhagen in the year 1776 on the wedding night of the King and Princess Caroline Mathilde. But the marriage was a political alliance, and the Princess felt only repugnance for her dissolute husband. On the night of their marriage the King leaves Copenhagen on a pleasure trip abroad, but his fast life proves too much for his weak constitution. Summoned to attend him, an ambitious young doctor realises that here is a great opportunity. He revives the King and, tremendously impressed, the King takes him back to Copenhagen. A love affair develops between the doctor and the Princess – but it is to have terrible consequences.
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