Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Because of its high productivity and “almost” 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The “almost” is because of Dan…
There Is Another Sun
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how ‘Racer’, a ‘Wall of Death’ rider in the same fairground, involves them in…
Dear Mr. Prohack
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett’s novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how…
Rag Doll
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.
Song of Paris
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
The Woman in Question
Director Anthony Asquith, working in the style of a Hitchcock whodunit, deftly moves between multiple points of view in this gritty look at life in a seaport town. Jean Kent…
Cosh Boy
Retitled The Slasher in the US. The gruesome story of a violent man who finally goes too far.
Brighton Rock
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as “Pinkie” – the film’s main thematic concern is…
Passport to Pimlico
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus…
Expresso Bongo
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Hermione…
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No it’s a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown…
Jet Storm
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
This Girl For Hire
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a…
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find…
Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Do Not Disturb
Mary Poppins
A magic nanny uses music and experience to assist two failed kids become closer to their own dad.