David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Witchfinder General (1968) Michael Reeves, Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. Read More »
Ourselves Alone (1936) Brian Desmond Hurst, Walter Summers, Antoinette Cellier, Niall MacGinnis, Maire O’Neill
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland Read More »
The Long Dark Hall (1951) Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Tania Heald
Arthur Groome works in London and has a devoted family in Richmond. Read More »
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) Clive Donner, Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower) Read More »
Tabloid (2001) David Blair, Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Hurt
A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own. Read More »
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940) Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »
The Wooden Horse (1950) Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel
In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. Read More »
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) Anthony Asquith, Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine
Three stories about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce Read More »
Jackpot (1960) Montgomery Tully, William Hartnell, Betty McDowall, Eddie Byrne
A safe in ‘The Jackpot Club’ is robbed of £6,000. Read More »