P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Based on Jack Rosenthal’s childhood memories, Michael Apted’s film, set in the summer of 1948, features 14-year-old Alan who has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that…
The Looking Glass War
From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
Paul Temple Returns
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed “The Marquis.” There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is…
Foxhole in Cairo
A German agent in Libya is allowed to get back to Rommel with false information.
Danger Tomorrow
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In…
Happy Ever After
The whole village mourns when General O’Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O’Leary, takes over the state and soon…
Playing Away
To mark the conclusion of their “Third World Week” celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game…
Restless Natives
Dunkirk
The Curse of Frankenstein
Baron Victor Frankenstein has found life’s secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of occasions ensuing from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a bent to…