Wilfrid Lawson

Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.

영국의 어느 한 국민학교에서 20명의 부모가 자녀들의 이름으로 천 파운드씩 적립을 한다. 그리고 그 돈으로 최후의 생존자들에게 이자를 가산하여 주는 복권 형식의 톤틴이라는 위원회를 발족시킨다. 40년이 지난 후 당시 톤틴을 발족시킨 사람들 중 핀스버리 형제만이 남게 된다. 자녀가 없는 이들은 양자들을 입양해 런던의 빈민가에 함께 살고 있지만, 톤틴의 상금 때문에 서로 증오하고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 형인 매스터맨이 동생 조셉을 살해하고 톤틴을 타려는 음모를 계획한다.

A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.

영국의 왕 헨리2세가 교회와 세금 문제로 싸움을 하는 도중 캔터베리의 대주교가 죽는다. 왕은 그 자리에 자신의 분신과도 같은 토마스 베켓을 캔터베리의 대주교로 임명한다. 헨리 2세와 토마스 베켓은 우호적인 관계를 지속한다. 그러던 어느 날 죄를 지은 성직자가 살해당하는 사건이 발생한다. 토마스 베켓은 성직자를 교회에서뿐만이 아니라 세속 법정에서도 재판 할 수 있도록 한 클라렌드 칙령을 거부한다. 이 사건으로 그는 프랑스로 추방된다. 토마스 베켓은 이 사실을 교황에게 상소하였지만 헨리 2세와 반목하기를 원치 않았던 교황은 이를 묵인한다. 토마스 베켓은 프랑스 국왕 루이 7세의 보호를 받는다. 그리고 그 덕분에 헨리 2세와 평화 협정을 맺고 영국으로 귀향한다. 그러나 그는 헨리2세의 기사들에 의해 캔터베리 대성당에서 살해당한다. 그 후 헨리 2세는 공적으로 참회하고 토마스 베켓을 순교자로 시성한다.

버려진 아이로 태어나 대 지주의 저택에서 자란 톰 존스는 명랑하고 자유분방하지만 경솔한 행동과 모략으로 인해 대지주의 가호까지 받지못하게 된다. 사랑하던 연인에게도 버림받았지만 이런 고난들을 착한 성격으로 극복하여 나가는데..

A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works.

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 seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.

19세기초 프랑스의 맹공을 받게 된 제정 러시아의 피에르는 나폴레옹을 숭배한다. 청순한 나타샤를 사랑하는 피에르. 그의 재산을 탐낸 쿠라긴 공작은 자신의 딸과 결혼시키는데 성공한다. 나타샤의 오빠 니콜라스는 전쟁 중 도망쳐오고, 안드레이는 전쟁의 현실을 목격하고 돌아온 후, 지금껏 괴롭혔던 아내 리제의 죽음으로 환멸에 빠진다. 결혼 생활에 실패한 피에르는 전쟁의 참상을 보고 나폴레옹을 숭배했던 자신을 저주한다. 포로로 감옥에서 실신한 플라톤을 만나 생의 진실을 깨달은 피에르는 마침내 쿠투조프의 초토 퇴각 작전이 성공, 프랑스군이 깨끗이 소탕되는 것으로 종말되는 전쟁의 와중에서 기적적으로 살아 남는다. 부흥의 싹이 트기 시작한 초토화된 거리에서 성숙한 나타샤는 피에르를 기다리고 있었다.

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

나치의 박해를 받던 추기경이 국가의 정권이 공산정부로 넘어가게 되자 이유없이 감옥에 갇힌다. 새로 정권을 잡은 공산당의 정치가들은 나라에서 카톨릭이라는 종교 자체를 묵살 시킬려고 주인공을 고문하고 세뇌 시킨다. 하지만 종교적 신념으로 무장한 그를 설득하기란 쉽지가 않는데.

A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.

A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.

Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.

A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.

A lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.

올리 올젠은 늘 고향으로 돌아가 농장을 하고 싶어하는 스웨덴 출신의 선원이다. 그러나 그는 항해가 끝나고 부두에 정착하게 될 때마다 동료 선원들과 함께 술에 만취하게 되고 그 결과 고향으로 돌아가려는 소원을 이루지 못하고 또 다시 배를 타게 되곤 한다. 올리가 타고 있는 배에는 아일랜드 출신으로 선원들의 리더인 드리스콜, 두고 온 아내와 자식에 대한 죄의식으로 괴로워하는 스미티, 소년처럼 감상적인 엑셀 등이 등장한다. 2년이란 오랜 선상 생활 속에서 우정을 키워온 거친 바다 사나이들은 부두에 정착한 뒤 배에서 내려 마음껏 술을 마시며 여흥을 즐긴다. 하지만 술로 인해 고향으로 돌아가려는 꿈을 이루지 못했던 올리는 애써 술을 피하는데 사악한 술집 주인과 작부의 음모로 결국 술을 주문하게 되고, 약을 탄 술을 마신 올리는 정신을 잃고 쓰러진다. 그리고 또 다시 고향으로 돌아가려는 꿈은 깨지고 만다.

A film directed by Paul L. Stein.

This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.

South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.

Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...

Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' and pronounces him another Napoleon. Eddie becomes a changed man and issues orders to everyone. Meantime the boss believes Eddie to be the rightful owner of the company so let's him have his way. With the boss ill, Eddie invests heavily in the nutmeg market, almost bankrupting the company. By luck the research department discover that nutmeg is the secret ingredient for the new hair-restorer. The 1933 British Lion comedy feature film "Strike It Rich" starring George Gee and Gina Malo seems to be a 'lost' film on the 35mm cinema film format. However it was released (sadly savagely cut) on the UK Pathescope 9.5mm home movie film format in December 1938. One musical number was cut from the 9.5mm feature film release, but issued separately in a 9.5mm Pathe Vox Review. This print has this extra item edited back in.

During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.