
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 »
Tag Archives: UK
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 »
Split Second (1992) Tony Maylam, Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair Duncan, Action, Crime, Horror

In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
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Smokescreen (1964) Jim O’Connolly, Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a blazing car goes over the cliff to the east of Brighton an insurance investigator is sent to the coast to poke around. Read More »
Dilemma (1962) Peter Maxwell, Peter Halliday, Ingrid Hafner, Patricia Burke, Drama, Thriller

Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing. Read More »
Futtocks End (1970) Bob Kellett, Michael Hordern, Ronnie Barker, Roger Livesey, Comedy

In this ‘silent’ sound-effect comedy, Ronnie Barker stars as General Futtock who has a motley group of guests stay at his country estate for the weekend. Read More »