The scene is Yeoman’s Hospital, set in the English Midlands, soon after the NHS was founded. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Whirlpool (1959) Lewis Allen, Juliette Gréco, O.W. Fischer, Muriel Pavlow
On the run from her murderous wartime partner in crime Hermann, Lora hides on a small cargo boat captained by heroic Rolf. Read More »
Windom’s Way (1957) Ronald Neame, Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry
A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Read More »
Woman of Straw (1964) Basil Dearden, Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson
Tyrannical but ailing tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria. Read More »
Pope Joan (1972) Michael Anderson, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Kemp, Natasa Nicolescu
A present-day female evangelist strongly feels that she resembles the legendary Pope Joan Read More »
American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers Read More »
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) Arthur Crabtree, Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow
A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes. Read More »
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (2000) Paul Tickell, Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney
Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Read More »
The Goob (2014) Guy Myhill, Sienna Guillory, Sean Harris, Hannah Spearritt
Young Goob, 16 years old, returns home to his mother where he grew up in the countryside Read More »