An all-star cast spearhead this exercise in social realism. Jackie (Richard Attenborough) dreams of marrying the girl across the street but, in a bid to escape the poverty trap, agrees to participate in a robbery that goes wrong
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"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.
Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon.
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...
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...
Leaving to join his wife at a party in the country, Peter misses his train through chatting to an old friend, Marguerite. The two are forced to stop at an inn which only has one room left. But unknown to Peter, he is being pursued by his in-laws!
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)
The receipt of a letter at 10 Downing Street, signed by an eminent atomic researcher and threatening to destroy the seat of Government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament unless the Prime Minister acts to bring his research work to an end, is at first dismissed as a hoax. But the drama grows when Scotland Yard discovers that the researcher has disappeared.
Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the
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.
Wolf Merton, a London stockbroker with a fine war record as Colonel of a Tank Regiment, has since lost touch with all the men who served under his wartime command. One evening he returns to his Belgravia home and finds that there is an 'intruder' in the house.
Johnny Bannion has spent the last three years in prison devising the biggest robbery of his career. Out of prison, he puts his plans into action. Burying the money in a field, Bannion is arrested before he has a chance to reveal its whereabouts to his gang. They spring him from jail all right, but make the fatal mistake of shooting him before he's given them the full story...
The 'protection racket' is rampant in London. The basic procedure for the crooks is to threaten shop-keepers and café proprietors with the destruction of their premises unless they pay a regular weekly sum of money for 'protection'.
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.
Jack Denton's grandfather Harry comes out of prison. He is soon up to his old tricks: embarrassment and chaos follow.
A gang of hardboiled rogues exchange their London gear for the rough brown robes of a religious order. Make no mistake, they are not undergoing a change of heart, just hiding out until the heat cools off a little and they can return to their nefarious activities in the big city!
Captain Dandy Forsdyke, phoney man-about-town and flourishing jewel thief, drives his girlfriend mad. Dandy cannot prevent himself from lifting such tempting objects as stray diamond rings and bulging wallets which are not at that moment being used.
John Clarke, an uninspiring sort of fellow, works in a bank and one day boards a bus on his way home, foolishly 'forgetting' to pay his fare. He is caught by an inspector, but instead of owning up to it, gives the name and address of one of the bank clients, John Stockman. But in doing so he sets in motion a violent chain of events involving blackmail, robbery and ultimate death.
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