John Blythe

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.

A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.

The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the masters and the servants are prepared to co-operate in trying to find some cash - after all, most of them are enjoying liaisons of one kind or another among themselves, and none have any desire to give up their rewarding way of life...

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.

Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.

Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.

Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home -- and when his body is found, the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim?

A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son (Dermot Walsh) joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father (Charles Victor).

Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.

Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

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.

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.

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.

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.

The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

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...

A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent.