An excellent example of war-time propaganda film-making, combining documentary with scripted performances. Depicts a Germany under the grip of mass-hysteria led by Hitler, in contrast to the rural peace of England and the dignity of its inhabitants.
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‘Lucky Ryland’ is the captain of the ‘Bulinga’ ship. He secures a contract to transport a cargo of pedigree bulls from South America to England which must be done in record time.
Amanda occasionally baby-sits for friends and neighbors, so when the newly-arrived couple in the village ask her to sit for them, she accepts.
Cheerful British comedy set against the London to Brighton car rally.
Two sailors - Puncher, ex-lightweight boxing champion of the Navy and a simple sort of chap and Knocker, the 'bright' boy of the ship - go ashore when HMS Gillingham puts into Naples.
The scene is Brighton, with holidaymakers awaiting the arrival of Kolley Kibber, who is working on a stunt for his newspaper.
When a German U-boat sinks Captain Ferguson's ship he vows revenge. The intelligence officers wish to follow the U-boat. Captain Ferguson disobeys these orders and breaks navy policy. How will he achieve his mission with his reputation still intact?
Eddie is a man with a secret - his second job is that of public hangman. When he falls into the canal following a fight with a youth over his wife, his body is not found. A thriller with unexpected twists.
To the boisterous, gaslit London of the 1860's came Joe Sanders and his brother Fred to seek their fortunes. They came from Leybourne in Yorkshire, where Fred was a local prizefighter.
Sir Lancelot Spratt gives his medical students a slating to remember over a patient. The patient is Dr Richard Hare, a student who has fallen ill with jaundice and, in love with the enticing Night Nurse!
Richard Harris gives a great performance as a man who wants to quit his job as a miner.
Georgie, Carole, Eve and Mary work together in a factory and the four friends go regularly to the local "palais de danse". The story of the joys and sorrows of their young lives is told through their experiences at the dance hall.
In the far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay, but a group of scientists believe they have discovered a way of moving humanity onto its next level - to create an immortal. Adventurer Jerry Cornelius gets involved because his recently deceased father worked out a formula to help the final programme and it's on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of his mansion. But Jerry's brother won't let anyone get at it...
"The Kitchen" is adapted from Arnold Wesker's celebrated play. The action takes place in the kitchen of a restaurant, where a polyglot staff strive to cope with a superhuman task. Peter, the German cook, is in love with the waitress, Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The kitchen looms around and encloses them all it is a microcosm of the world. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and Peter realizes that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband. In his grief and pain he runs berserk ... and destroys the kitchen.
David Balfour is a recently orphaned young man from a tiny Highland village and the true heir to the title of Master of the Shaws. His uncle Ebenezer has designs on the title so hires Captain Hosean to dispose of his nephew.
Walter Craig is summoned to a British estate. The owner is a stranger to him, yet his face is familiar.
When a temperamental opera star finds out her husband is accused of murder she sets off to find the real killer and is determined to prove her husbands innocence. As she comes closer to the truth, she also comes closer to danger.
Step by step, thrill by thrill, we watch Scotland Yard detectives build up damning evidence against a murderer who for years had believed himself completely safe from discovery. When a human skeleton is discovered beneath the rubble of a bomb school, it is presumed to be the victim of enemy bombing. Police scientists, however, making a routine examination, prove that the bones are those of a woman who had been strangled...
Based on a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat (author of The Cruel Sea) and directed by Basil Dearden (The Blue Lamp, The League Of Gentleman)
When the innocent-faced Malou, having been framed with a crime in Paris, arrives at a sordid brothel in England, it seems that she is condemned to a miserable and soul-destroying life...
In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.
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