
Gurney Slade wanders from place to place after breaking the fourth wall to escape from the mundanities of making a family sitcom. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Java Head (1934) J. Walter Ruben, Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan, John Loder

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. Read More »
Paper Tiger (1975) Ken Annakin, David Niven, Toshirô Mifune, Hardy Krüger

A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. Read More »
Map of the Human Heart (1992) Vincent Ward, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years Read More »
East of Sudan (1964) Nathan Juran, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds

During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial Private Baker teams Read More »
The Lodger (1927) Alfred Hitchcock, June, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault

When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello) Read More »
Shadow of the Eagle (1950) Sidney Salkow, Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Greta Gynt

Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia’s many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova Read More »
My Learned Friend (1943) Basil Dearden, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Read More »
Educating Rita (1983) Lewis Gilbert, Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams

In Liverpool, twenty-seven-year-old hairdresser Rita (Dame Julie Walters) decides to complete her basic education before having children Read More »
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) Hanns Schwarz, Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott

Sir Percy Blakeney(in the guise of the masked Scarlet Pimpernel), an Englishman who with the aid of a band of his friends Read More »