Ian Wilson

Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released, and moved to Belgium to start a subsidiary, of which a major project was to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles.

열두 살 어린 소녀의 실종사건을 조사하기 위해서 어느 경찰관이 스코틀랜드의 한 섬으로 파견된다. 경찰관의 강렬한 기독교적 믿음은 이 섬 공동체 주민들의 오래된 종교적인 믿음, 문화와 정면으로 충돌하는데... 로빈 하디 감독의 (1973)은 호러영화 역사상 베스트 리스트에 절대 빠지지 않는 컬트영화다. 2006년에 리메이크된 닐 라뷰트 감독의 은 그해 골든 라즈베리 어워드의 작품상과 남우주연상 후보에 오른 영화다. 5년이나 국내에 지각 개봉하는 은 아마도 할리우드 사상 최악의 리메이크 사례 중 하나로 영원히 역사의 단두대에 올라야 할 작품이다. 은 오리지널 이야기의 뼈대를 거의 그대로 유지하면서 약간의 변화를 준다. 오리지널 은 한 영국 경사가 실종된 아이를 찾기 위해 이교도들이 사는 섬으로 들어가면서 시작되는 이야기였다. 새로운 은 캘리포니아 경찰관 에드워드(니콜라스 케이지)가 실종된 딸을 찾아달라는 약혼녀 윌로우(몰리 파커)의 편지를 받고 이교도의 섬으로 들어간 뒤, 실종된 아이가 자신의 딸임을 깨닫게 되면서 시작된다. 에드워드는 남자들을 노예로 부리는 여성 이교도들이 그 섬을지배하고 있다는 사실을 알게 된다. 비록 영화 역사상 최고의 반전(反轉)영화 중 하나로 손꼽히기는 하지만, 오리지널 은 이야기의 힘 덕분이 아니라 이교도들의 기이한 이미지와 뜬금없이 얽히는 장르의 결합이 주는 에너지 덕분에 컬트의 신전에 올랐다. 닐 라뷰트 감독은 거의 유아적인 솜씨로 오리지널의 이미지를 베끼면서 반전 스릴러로서의 기능에만 몰두한다. 이교도 수장을 연기하는 엘렌 버스틴 역시 오리지널의 수장이던 크리스토퍼 리의 기괴함을 좀처럼 따르지 못한다. 남자들을 씨받이 종으로 부리면서 여성만의 농경 유토피아를 건설하고 싶어하는 극단적 페미니스트라면 즐길 법도 하겠다.

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins

Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.

The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

1937년 남부 뉴올리언즈 주립정신 병원의 뇌 외과의사 쿠크로비츠 박사(몽고메리 클리프트)는 병원의 어려운 재정 때문에 모든 걸 포기하고 고향 시카고로 돌아가려고 하는데 그 동네의 부유한 미망인 베너블 부인(캐서린 헵번)은 자기 조카 캐서린(엘리자베스 테일러)에게 뇌수술을 해주는 조건으로 병원을 위해 막대한 돈을 기부할 것임을 제안한다. 식충식물을 좋아하는 베너블 부인에게는 세바스찬 이라고 하는 아들이 있었는데 지난 여름 아들과 조카 캐서린이 동행하여 여행을 떠나 그 여행에서 아들이 목숨을 잃었다. 한편 조카 캐서린은 사건 이후 정신이상 증세를 보여 아들의 죽음이 조카 캐서린의 정신이상 증세와 관련이 있지 않나 의심하며 한편으로는 아들이 동성애자였다는 사실이 밝혀질까 불안 해하며 쿠크로비츠 박사에게 빨리 뇌수술을 해 주기를 원한다. 쿠크로비츠 박사는 성 메리병원에 입원하고 있는 캐서린을 만나지만 그녀의 정신상태에 대해 진단해 본 결과 이상한 징후는 확인되지 않으나 캐서린이 굳게 입을 다물고 있고 세바스찬이 죽은 원인이 많은 영향을 주었다고 관찰되어 그녀를 주립병원으로 옮겨 기억을 되돌려 지난 여름 갑자기 세바스찬의 죽음에 대한 진상을 추적하기 위한 치료를 최상의 방법으로 대화를 계속하는데.

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?

Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

The host of a radio crime show finds himself mixed up with real gangsters after he re-creates a notorious murder on the air. He uses his knowledge of criminology to foil the gang's wicked scheme.

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.

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

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped by an ever more complex web of lies and intrigue. A lifetime of personal honour is at stake and we wonder if redemption is possible.

A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

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.

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.

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.

A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

A ventriloquist is murdered during a theatre variety performance. A dwarf goes undercover as the dummy...

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

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.

A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.

Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

Romance set in a chemical factory.

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...

Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!

A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.

Two incompetent Bailiffs men reposess the wrong house.

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.

To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.

A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.