John Slater

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.

The 186th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the article 'A story from South Wales', about the closure of unproductive pits and the compulsory relocation of workforces.

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!

Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfriend, he realises that racial prejudice is rife within his own home. This powerful drama exposes the deep-seated racial tensions hidden in British family life during the late 1950s. Written for the stage by Unity Theatre's Ted Willis, this television recording was filmed a few weeks after the play's successful West End run, and most of the stage cast repeat their roles here, including the terrific John Slater, Andree Melly and Lloyd Reckord. The drama's interracial kiss is probably the first to be shown on British TV.

Un policía encargado de ocuparse de la delincuencia juvenil se enamora de la hermana de uno de los cabecillas.

The 118th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the article 'Hungarians in Britain', 'Double Dutch', 'Pulsed Infusion' and 'Songs of the Coalfields 1: The Sandgate Nursing Man'.

Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride, he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver, who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny's hitchhiker and she's dead.

The 80th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Anthracite Field', 'Time Out', 'Bowhill On Top' and 'Ideas Man'.

Dos hermanos millonarios de avanzada edad deciden hacer una apuesta: uno de ellos afirma que, si le regalan un talón de un millón de libras a un hombre sin recursos, con la única condición de no utilizarlo durante un mes, podrá salir adelante. El otro sostiene lo contrario. Eligen a un abogado americano que está arruinado y se encuentra en Londres solo y sin amigos. Al recibir el dinero su vida dará un vuelco.

Estamos en la Francia del siglo XVIII, en la corte del Rey Sol; un aristócrata vuelve de la guerra y se encuentra con sus posesiones usurpadas por una bella viuda, que dice haberlas adquirido. Para recuperar su castillo, el noble habrá de recuperar para la hermosa hembra cierta valiosa joya.

Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.

Phillip Davidson (John Mills) visita un barco para pedirle al capitán la mano de su hija Fay. Una vez a bordo, se ve envuelto en una pelea provocada por las actividades criminales de Boyd, un traficante de personas. El barco se incendia, y durante la investigación de los hechos se halla un cadáver carbonizado.

50s quota thriller.

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. It takes some doing, but Smith wins the love and trust of these displaced youngsters. Like most government-funded Israeli productions of the early 1950s, Faithful City is designed more to instruct and inform than entertain. That it happens to be entertaining in the bargain is all the more reason to seek out this extremely rare film.

Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.

Prelude to Fame is a 1950 British drama film directed by Fergus McDonell from a story by Aldous Huxley. While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.

Narra cómo el descubrimiento de un tratado provoca que la "Sección Pimlico", una pequeña comunidad en medio de Londres, se proclame independiente e intente actuar como tal.

The 22nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, unusually featuring a single article: 'Replanning a Coalfield'.

Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

Una mujer casada esconde a su ex amante, que acaba de escapar de la cárcel, en su casa de Londres. Está tan descontenta con su aburrido matrimonio que empieza a sentir que renace su antiguo amor por él. (FILMAFFINITY)

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.

Una joven abandona su casa y llega a ser una gran concertista de piano, pero su mente se desequilibra a causa de la actitud de su psiquiatra y su guardián.

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.

A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.

Cuando Celia Crowson es llamada al servicio militar, espera obtener un puesto de trabajo glamuroso, pero al ser una chica soltera es enviada a una fábrica donde se producen partes de aviones. Ahí encuentra otras chicas de diversa procedencia social y empieza una relación con un joven piloto.

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados británicos llega a la aldea inglesa de Bramley End. Al principio son bien recibidos por los lugareños, pero muy pronto éstos empiezan a dudar de su identidad y de sus verdaderos propósitos. Cuando descubren que, en realidad, son soldados alemanes cuyo objetivo es ser la avanzadilla de la invasión de Inglaterra, los encierran en la iglesia parroquial. (FILMAFFINITY)

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value of unity.

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

Europa, 1939. Alemania y Gran Bretaña se encuentran a punto de enfrentarse en una nueva guerra. El profesor Horatio Smith viaja con sus estudiantes a la Europa continental para participar en una excavación arqueológica, pero cuando sus alumnos descubran que lo que busca Smith es construir un camino que facilite la huida a los enemigos del nazismo, lo apoyarán con más ahínco. Sin embargo, el plan se complica cuando un estudiante introduzca en el grupo a una misteriosa mujer que resulta ser una espía de la Gestapo. (FILMAFFINITY)

En la Inglaterra sumida en crisis económica, una joven intenta convertirse en la amante de un hombre rico para así poder ayudar a su familia. Esta película británica de 1941 se creía perdida durante décadas. "Love On The Dole" fue la tercera película de Deborah Kerr y la segunda donde se trata la desigualdad social británica. Basada en un libro escrito en 1933 cuando la depresión era muy real y cuando fue adaptada para el escenario en 1934 por el autor Walter Greenwood (Wendy Hiller interpretó a Sally). La obra fue un gran éxito: los discursos "reales" de Larry y los temas sociales contemporáneos fueron muy nuevos para el público británico. Aún así, la Junta de Censores británica pensó que la historia era demasiado sórdida para ser filmada, pero finalmente se hizo en 1941, cuando la Guerra convirtió al mundo en un lugar muy diferente.

Short war time film about the daily activities of Shunter Trains in British Railway Yards and their importance and contribution to the war effort.