Distinguished Gentleman #1
Ambientada en la década de 1950 en Londres, la película sigue a Williams, un veterano funcionario enterrado bajo el papeleo de la oficina mientras la ciudad se reconstruye después de la II Guerra Mundial. Al recibir un demoledor diagnóstico médico, vacía su cuenta de ahorros y se dirige a la costa. Se promete hacer de sus últimos días un tiempo significativo, pero se percata de que no sabe cómo hacerlo. Después de que un misterioso desconocido lo lleve a la ciudad, Williams se siente intrigado por una joven compañera de trabajo que parece poseer la vitalidad que él había perdido. Con la ayuda de su optimista colega, Williams pone todo su empeño en hacer feliz, de un modo sorprendente, a su entorno.
Kenneth Williams
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.
Captain Oliver
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.
