Rodney Ackland

Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.

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.

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

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

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

In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

A landlady changes her resentful attitude to her lodger when she realises the value of his work in a munitions factory.

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.

이차대전 중, 독일의 유보트 37호는 벌써 수개월째 캐나다의 허드슨만에 출몰하며 오가는 선박들을 괴롭히고 있었다. 그러나 식량약탈과 주변정탐을 위해 여섯 명의 정찰대를 상륙시킨 직후, 캐나다공군에 의해 격침되고 만다. 불시에 고립된 정찰대는 일단 인근마을로 잠입해, 모피사냥꾼 조니(로렌스 올리비에)가 묵고 있는 집을 점거한다. 조니는 정치에는 무관심한 사람이지만, 나치의 침입을 알리기 위해 목숨까지 건다. 구조요청을 받고 출동한 수상비행기를 탈취해 도주하던 나치일당은 비행기의 추락으로 지휘관을 잃는다. 남은 일당을 지휘하게 된 히르트대위(에릭 포트먼)는 광신적인 나치주의자이다. 그는 당시 중립을 표방하고 있던 미국으로 탈출하기 위해 캐나다대륙을 횡단하기로 결심한다. 도중에 우연히, 히틀러의 학살정책 때문에 캐나다로 피난 온 독일인들의 협동농장을 가게 된다. 히르트대위는 그들에게 나치주의를 설파하지만 호응은커녕 배척만 받는다. 설상가상으로 전쟁 전 제빵사였던 부하 포겔마저 농장에 남겠다고 하자, 그를 탈영죄로 처형하고는 길을 떠난다. 고장 난 차를 돕는 척하며 약탈한 양복으로 갈아입은 일당은 기차를 타고 밴쿠버로 잠입한다. 그러나 시내에는 이미 수배령이 내려있다. 결국 한 명은 체포되고 남은 둘은 로키산맥으로 도주한다. 길을 잃고 헤매던 일당은 영국인 작가이며 민속연구가인 스콧(레즐리 하워드)의 도움을 받게 된다. 그러나 전쟁 따위에 초연한 그의 태도에 분개한 히르트대위는 강도짓을 하고 달아난다. 하지만 남은 부하 하나마저 스콧의 동료들에게 붙잡히고 혼자 도망치는 신세가 되고 만다. 간신히 미국행 열차 화물칸에 숨어든 그는 그곳에서 캐나다군 탈영병 앤디(레이몬드 매시)와 부딪친다. 군 생활에는 불만이 많았어도 애국심만은 확고했던 앤디는, 미국세관원들을 설득해 히르트대위의 미국행을 좌절시키고야 만다.

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.

"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.

"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.

The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.

A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.

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.

An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.

A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.

부자 가족 힐크리스트는 자신들의 땅에 공장을 짓기 위해 가난한 농부가 보낸 투자사기 전문가 혼블로워와 싸움을 시작한다. 그러던 어느 날 힐크리스트 부인은 혼블로워의 부인이 매춘을 했다는 사실을 알게 되고 이 사실을 그의 사업에 이용하여 협박편지를 보낸다. 그러자 결국 클로 혼블로워 부인은 자살을 하게 된다.