A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
No Time for Tears (1957) Cyril Frankel, Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. Read More »
The Way to the Stars (1945) Anthony Asquith, Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. Read More »
Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Read More »
The House of the Arrow (1953) Michael Anderson, Oskar Homolka, Robert Urquhart, Yvonne Furneaux
A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. Read More »
As Long as Theyre Happy (1955) J. Lee Thompson, Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jeannie Carson
A stockbroker’s youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Read More »
Life with the Lyons (1954) Val Guest, Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Richard Lyon
Ben, Bebe and family move into a new house, but are faced with a problematic landlord. Read More »
Lorna Doone (1934) Basil Dean, Victoria Hopper, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600’s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. Read More »
Antony and Cleopatra (1972) Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt’s queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. Read More »
Pacific Destiny (1956) Wolf Rilla, Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen, Felix Felton
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. Read More »