Olwen Brookes

Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.

La acción transcurre en Camelot. Leonette, la hija de un conde, está enamorada de John, un intrépido caballero, pero su padre desaprueba esta relación. Un día los sorprende juntos, y John se ve obligado a huir. Pasado algún tiempo, unos vikingos asaltan el castillo, asesinando al Conde y a su famillia. Poco después, aparece en Inglaterra un caballero negro, que jura vengar la muerte del conde y los suyos. (FILMAFFINITY)

1912. La cena de una acaudalada familia inglesa se ve interrumpida por un inspector de policía, que les comunica que una muchacha conocida por todos los presentes ha muerto en misteriosas circunstancias. Parece que cualquiera de ellos podría haber sido el responsable. ¿Pero quién es este inspector y que quiere de ellos? (FILMAFFINITY)

El 10 de Julio de 1940 los nazis invaden Amorel, una estrátegica isla británica. La ocupación causa gran consternación al ministro de agricultura, ya que en la pequeña isla se encuentra ”Venus”, una vaca de extraordinario pedigree y de gran valor energético. El ministro presiona a la oficina de guerra para que intervenga en la recuperación del preciado animal.

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Poco después de haber ocupado el trono de Egipto, la bella Cleopatra recibe la visita del general romano Julio César. La relación amorosa que se establece entre ellos tendrá también provechosas repercusiones en el terreno político y militar.