Amy Veness

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

교회에 속해 있는 빈민층을 도와주는 구빈원이란 곳에서 한 여자가 올리버 트위스트(Oliver Twist: 존 하워드 데이비스 분)라는 사내 아이를 낳고 숨을 거둔다. 부모나 다른 친척의 신분을 전혀 모르는 상태로 구빈원에서 생활 기술을 배우는 도제로서 지내던 올리버는 불충분한 식사를 한 뒤, 더 달라고 요구를 했다가 미움을 사게 돼 장의사인 소우어베리씨 집에 팔려 가게 된다. 하지만 그 곳에서도 역시 올리버는 심한 학대를 받는다. 특히 자신의 어머니를 경멸하는 것에 분개해 자신보다 훨씬 큰 노아와 주인 여자에게 마구 주먹을 휘둘렀다가 매를 맞은 뒤 런던으로 도망을 친다. 런던에서 올리버는 도저라는 페이긴 수하의 소매치기를 만나고, 페이긴의 허름한 소굴로 가서 소매치기들과 같이 지내게 된다. 그러던 어느날 로저와 찰리의 소매치기에 대해 올리버가 누명을 쓰고 경찰에게 잡힌다. 하지만 소매치기를 당할 뻔 했던 노신사, 브라운로우씨의 간곡한 부탁으로 올리버는 무사히 풀려나고 브라운로우씨의 집에 가서 극진한 간호와 사랑을 받는다. 하지만 심부름을 나왔다가 올리버는 다시 창녀인 낸시와 도둑인 빌 사이크스에게 잡혀 페이긴의 소굴로 돌아오게 된다. 올리버의 인생이 결국 도둑질이나 하다가 끝나게 될 거란 사실에 올리버를 잡아온 낸시는 올리버를 감싸고, 올리버가 페이긴 소굴에서 빠져 나갈 수 있도록 브라운로우씨에게 정보를 제공한다. 이런 사실에 분개해 빌은 낸시를 때려 죽이지만... 결국 군중들과 경찰, 그리고 브라운로우씨가 올리버를 무사히 구출한다. 그리고 또한 올리버가 브라운로우씨의 손자라는 사실이 밝혀지고, 올리버는 다시 브라운로우씨의 저택으로 가서 행복한 생활을 하게 된다.

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.

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.

Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.

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.

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.

가장 프랭크 깁슨(로버트 뉴튼 분)은 전쟁에 참전 후 제대하여 안정적인 직장과 함께 단란한 가정을 이루며 산다. 딸 둘과 아들 하나, 장모님(에이미 베네스 분)과 여동생과 함께 사는 깁슨 씨는 전형적인 영국 중산층. 그러나 아내, 에델 깁슨 부인(셀리아 존슨 분)은 집안의 가사 일을 도맡아 한다. 남편과 사별한 시누이와 어머니를 모시며 사는 아내는 둘 사이의 긴장 관계를 참아내며 묵묵히 가정을 꾸려 나간다. 아이들도 개성이 각자 달라 아들 렉(존 브리시 분)은 심약하면서도 한때 젊은 혈기로 공산주의에 동조하여 아버지의 권위와 보수주의에 대항한다. 첫째 딸(케이 월쉬 분)은 매사에 삐딱하고 평범한 중산층의 삶을 혐오한다. 특히 어머니의 순종적인 삶을 싫어하며 아버지의 안정추구도 비판한다. 그런 그녀를 사랑하는 옆집 청년 빌리(존 밀스 분)는 그녀에게 청혼을 하지만 그녀는 유부남을 사랑한다. 결국 이 둘은 도망을 치고 보수적이고 완고한 엄마는 딸과의 인연을 끊는다. 그러면서 아들 렉과 바이(에일린 이어스킨 분)는 결혼을 하고 성격이 완만한 바이는 무난한 결혼 생활을 한다. 한때 혈기 왕성한 공산주의 지지자였던 렉은 바이와 결혼한 후 그 모든 정신을 버리고 소시민적인 가장으로 변하게 된다. 그러나 아들 렉은 어느 날 교통사고로 아내와 함께 죽고, 깁슨씨 내외는 실의에 빠진다. 점점 어머니와 고모의 갈등은 심해지고 아내는 그러한 이들의 갈등에 힘겨워한다. 수년의 세월이 지나고 어느 날 빌리의 방문으로 첫째 딸 퀴니와 어머니는 화해를 하고 이들은 단란한 가정을 꾸리게 된다. 그 사이 어머니는 돌아가시고 옆집 전우 밥(스탠리 홀로웨이 분)의 아내도 죽고 퀴니의 아들이 태어난다. 새로운 삶을 찾은 퀴니는 빌리 곁으로 떠나고 이제 프랭크와 에쓸은 단둘이 남아 지난 세월을 회상한다. 너무 숨가쁘게 살아 온 아내는 이제 편안히 쉬어야겠다고 제의하고 이들은 결국 20년 넘게 살아온 보금자리를 처분하고 어디론가로 떠나는데...

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.

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.

A singer tries to find success

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!

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.

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!

In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.