Rodney Ackland

Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."

1806: Un oficial del Ejército obtiene de una avejentada condesa el secreto para ganar perpetuamente a las cartas. Lo malo es que esta lo obtuvo a través de un pacto con el Diablo.

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

Una concertista de piano descubre que sufre graves problemas cardíacos, y decide disfrutar de la vida mientras pueda. Conoce a un piloto de permiso, que tal vez se quede ciego a consecuencia de una explosión que le alcanzó en el pasado. Ha de afrontar una operación que le impida quedar ciego, pero las probabilidades de e´xito son escasas...

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Surgen tensiones familiares cuando una colegiala se convierte en una actriz infantil de éxito.

Surgen tensiones familiares cuando una colegiala se convierte en una actriz infantil de éxito.

In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

A landlady changes her resentful attitude to her lodger when she realises the value of his work in a munitions factory.

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.

Unos soldados alemanes, cuyo submarino ha sido hundido frente a las costas canadienses, tratan de llegar a los EEUU, todavía territorio neutral. El grupo sufrirá todo tipo de visicitudes en su desesperada huida e irá sembrando el pánico por todas partes.

En Polonia, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un joven pianista huye de su país para continuar su carrera profesional. Al poco tiempo conoce a Carole Peters, una periodista estadounidense de la que se enamora y con la que viaja a Inglaterra. Pero, al llegar allí, se alista en un escuadrón aéreo polaco y vuelve a su país para rescatar a sus camaradas. Carole no duda en acompañarle.

"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.

"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.

The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.

A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.

Inglaterra, años 30. Las vacaciones de verano despiertan el romanticismo y los sueños de una vida mejor.

An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.

Una joven ladrona de joyas se enamora del detective que persigue a sus socios. Cuando está a punto de ser asesinado, ella no duda en salvarle. La banda, entonces, decide vengarse. La muchacha y el detective se ven obligados a huir y se refugian en el número 17 de una calle de los suburbios de Londres.

The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.

Basada en una obra de teatro, es la historia de una furiosa rivalidad entre un propietario rural y su vecino, un industrial advenedizo.