Kay Mander

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recalls her life and work, with clips from many of her films.

General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.

The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school, and chases after the inmates of her Dad's prison.

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.

일체의 문자정보가 금지된 미래사회를 배경으로 한 문명비판의 SF 영화. 주인공은 몰래 책을 숨기고 있는 사람들을 색출해 체포하고 책들을 불태우는 임무를 수행하는 소방수이다. 원제 '화씨 451도'는 종이가 불타는 온도를 뜻한다. 원작은 SF 작가 레이 브래드베리(Ray Bradbury)가 1953년 발표한 첫 장편소설이며, 프랑수아 트뤼포 감독에겐 첫 컬러 영화다.

1942년 2차 대전이 한창 진행되던 무렵 독일은 원자탄 제조계획을 세우고 원자폭탄의 필수 재료인 중수를 생산했던 노르웨이가 독일군에 점령당하게 된다. 원자탄 제조에 필요한 중수공장을 노르웨이의 산간지역에 세우게 되고 이에 연합군은 큰 위기를 맞게 된다. 독일군의 원자폭탄 제조를 막고자 연합군은 노르웨이 중수 공장을 폭격기로 계획을 세우지만 험난한 지형 때문에 공습이 쉽지 않다. 영국 정보부는 공장의 파괴공작을 세우고 우선 특수요원을 침투시켜가 공장 폭파에 필요한 정보를 수집하게 한다. 결국 오슬로 대학 교수 롤프와 저항 조직원 크누트를 비롯한 노르웨이 출신 특공대원을 급파하여 레지스탕스와 접촉하고, 이들의 도움으로 공장으로 침투하여 공장 내를 살피고 영국군 특공대가 도착하길 기다린다. 이윽고 영국군 특공대가 도착하고, 이들은 폭탄을 장치 중 독일군에게 발각되어 치열한 총격전을 벌인다. 결국 공장은 폭파되고 독일군의 중수생산은 무위로 돌아간다. 그러나 기쁨도 잠시 독일군은 베를린 연구소에서 중수를 다시 가져오고 경계를 더욱 더 철저히 하는데...

스펙터의 두목 블로펠트는 러시아의 새 암호 해독기를 손에 넣기 위해 터키에 있는 소련의 암호부 여직원 타티아나를 이용한다. 당시 소련의 스메르쉬 작전국 국장으로 일했던 클래브 대령은 충성심이 높은 그녀를 불러내고, 제임스 본드를 유인해 낸 후 함정에 빠뜨려서 죽이려 한다. 실비아와 달콤한 시간을 보내던 제임스 본드는 국장의 호출을 받고, 무기 담당 Q에게서 비밀장치가 있는 가방을 받는다. 스펙터 일당과 KGB의 추척을 받던 국장과 본드는 KGB가 고용한 불가리아인 살인 청부업자 크릴렌쿠를 저격하게 되는데...

A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.

Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and she has likewise deceived him. When the truth inevitably outs, it hardly matters, since hero and heroine now love each other for themselves rather than their bank accounts.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

A Canadian boy visits cousins in Scotland; his attitude first causes antagonism with Scottish youngsters, but disappears when the lad proves himself by riding a horse over dangerous country to bring aid to an injured shepherd.

Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.

Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.

Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.

Directed by innovative British filmmaker Kay Mander, this is a curiosity for devotees of public information films. School children act out new ideas for post-war education and investigate hidden histories near home, exploring industries, farms and Roman ruins around Bishop Auckland, then present an exhibition for local folk. Actuality footage of Wilsons Forge (closed in 1997) serves today as an elegy for one of the lost traditional industries in North East England.

A documentary on the housing problems of Great Britain following WWII

British documentary on the use of Penicillin.

Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.

Commissioned to make a film about a pilot health scheme in the Highlands and Islands, Mander decided against a straightforward documentary approach, recording doctors and nurses going about their work, and instead wrote her own storyline about a medical emergency and recruited actors to play it out.

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.