
A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot’s sister. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »
The Mother (2003) Roger Michell, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Drama, Romance

Toots and May’s marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Read More »
South (1919) Frank Hurley, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, J. Stenhouse, Documentary, Adventure

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by the fast-changing weather. Read More »
Heavens Above! (1963) John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Comedy

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. Read More »
Loss of Innocence / The Greengage Summer (1961) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Comedy, Drama, Romance

When she arrives in the French region of Champagne in the company of her mother, her two sisters and her brother, sixteen-year-old Joss Grey is still just a teen-ager. Read More »
The Sky Bike (1967) Charles Frend, Liam Redmond, William Lucas, Ellen McIntosh, Adventure, Family

In The Sky Bike, Tom (Spencer Shires) spends his school holidays dreaming of becoming a pilot. Read More »
Gideon of Scotland Yard / Gideon’s Day (1958) John Ford, Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Action, Comedy, Drama

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. Read More »
Yellow Canary (1943) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Drama, Thriller

In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. Read More »
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison, Family, Mystery, Fantasy

A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. Read More »