William Friese-Greene was the first man to produce and patent a commercially practical motion-picture camera based on the principles still used today. He lived for his work, sacrificing himself and his family and fortune to satisfy an obsession - to make pictures move. This is his story and the story of the two women who loved him.
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From his early youth Hawkins had felt the need to eliminate the pompous, starting with a hated headmaster. As his fame spread, business prospered until the coming of war brought enforced semi-retirement.
Arthur Fitton and Jenny Piper's wedding is a typical North of England working class affair. But they are both unusually sensitive and find the well-meant but vulgar ribaldry of their relatives and neighbors a terrible obstacle to their efforts to consummate their marriage.
A young woman unwittingly becomes a witness to a murder.
Young Jennie Jones leaves her quiet, dull home in Wales to seek a glamorous life in 1960s London. But knowing what she wants from life itself and how to get it does not turn out quite as she expects. Starring Janet Munro and John Stride.
Jack Denton's grandfather Harry comes out of prison. He is soon up to his old tricks: embarrassment and chaos follow.
Earnings from a diamond-robbery, Clifton to hire first-rate specialists for the hold-up of all time. They will rob the night postal train that carries millions in old banknotes. Everything goes to plan until the very last moment when a series of unforeseen events conspire against them and the police manage to capture the gang. Clifton however tries to escape the country using a counterfeit identity...
A gunshot rings out in an Italian motor factory, the watchman lies dead and the safe door is open. As the police arrive, a figure disappears into the shadows and fires at a mercury cylinder. Who is responsible and what do they want?
Distraught after her parents' divorce, nine-year-old Jennifer becomes increasingly neurotic and is sent to a center for maladjusted children.
Gritty thriller which pits two friends - one a policeman and one a criminal - against each other in this examination of the relationship between players on both sides of the law. With compelling performances from Martin Potter and Nicky Henson.
A TV studio hits upon an idea for a new programme - an hour-long show five days a week showing the trials and tribulations of the life of a married couple.
When John falls in love with his wife's sister he asks his wife for a divorce. Their plans are ruined when it is revealed that it is illegal for him to marry his divorced wife's sister. When she suddenly dies it looks suspiciously like murder.
The Harrow Correspondence College - Principal, Professor William Davis - differs from its more notable namesake in more than one respect, and in no greater respect than size. It possesses only one pupil, and he hasn't paid his fees. When Professor Davis visits the pupil, a young assistant in the press division of the Ministry of International Commerce, in an effort to extract the unpaid fee from him, he becomes involved in a hilarious series of misadventures with kidnapped professors and Nazi plots, and culminating in a crazy car chase involving a baby carriage and a bath chair.
Romantic comedy starring Stanley Baxter and Julie Christie.
The powerful story of a young woman who falls madly in love with an impoverished pianist, only to find that he is involved with a rich socialite who in turn ignores and encourages him until, in desperation, he commits suicide.
Major Lawrence is on leave in London. Idly wandering into an art gallery, he is struck by the beauty of a young girl in a painting. At his side is another surprised visitor who excitedly declares that the picture is of his daughter.
When Norman Shields lands a job at the Tinmouth Times, he creates complete havoc, particularly when reporting on the local beauty contest! Starring Norman Wisdom, playing four different characters, and featuring Angela Brown and Derek Bond.
Laurence Olivier plays Logan, a divorce lawyer, stranded in overcrowded hotel.
An idealistic young schoolmaster arrives at a Jamaican boarding school.
Ned is on the verge of committing suicide. When a criminal offers him a false identity Ned accepts and pretends to be the head of a criminal organisation. He realises there is a dark side to the syndicate when a young man kills himself.
Comedy spy film starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi.
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