Nigel Hess

The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.

En 1936, Cornualles vive al margen de los grandes acontecimientos históricos que se están desarrollando en Europa. De la información que les llega a través de la radio, granjeros y pescadores sólo muestran interés por la predicción atmosférica y el estado de la mar. Por otra parte, los forasteros y los desocupados no son especialmente bienvenidos en esta cerrada comunidad. El hallazgo de un náufrago en la playa próxima a su casa, perturbará no sólo la apacible vida de las hermanas Janet y Ursula Widdington, sino también la del pueblo. Antes de ser arrojado al mar desde la borda de un barco que se dirigía a América, la intencion de Andrea Marowski, un joven violinista de Cracovia, era huir de una Europa prebélica y sobre todo del antisemitismo reinante para empezar una nueva vida en América. Tanto él como las hermanas Widdington consideran un milagro que haya podido sobrevivir. (FILMAFFINITY)

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.

Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.

Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.

Stephanie y Sabrina son hermanas gemelas. Mientras que Stephanie es un ama de casa insatisfecha, Sabrina pertenece a la alta sociedad londinense. Después de reunirse en Venecia para celebrar su cumpleaños, cada una de ellas decide vivir la vida de la otra. Así es como Sabrina se convierte en madre y esposa. Stephanie, por su parte, se siente un poco insegura en su relación con un atractivo estudiante.

Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.