Speechmaker
18세기 영국, 17살의 소녀 조지아나는 최고의 권력과 부를 가진 데본셔 공작과의 결혼을 통해 모두가 우러러보는 데본셔 공작부인이 되어 사교계에 화려하게 등장한다. 시대의 패션 아이콘으로 유행을 선도하고 당시 만화가들이 파파라치처럼 쫓아다닐 정도로 전 영국이 사랑했던 그녀. 그러나 그녀를 사랑하지 않는 남편 데본셔 공작은 수많은 여자들과의 외도로 조지아나에게 불행한 결혼생활을 안겨준다. 급기야 조지아나는 믿고 의지하던 유일한 친구 베스마저 남편과 정사를 나누는 현장을 직접 목격한다. 남편의 불륜, 믿었던 친구의 배신으로 힘들어하는 조지아나에게 열정적인 젊은 정치가 찰스 그레이와의 만남은 새로운 세상을 열어준다. 그레이의 열정적인 구애, 그리고 뜨거운 정사. 두 사람은 모든 것을 잊고 점점 더 관계에 탐닉하게 된다. 그러나 사교계의 여왕과 젊은 정치가의 부적절한 이 위험한 관계가 영국 전역에 알려지게 되면서 조지아나는 일생일대의 치명적인 위기를 맞게 되는데…
A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and is happy just to see where it goes.
Self - Interviewee
Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, assistant editor Ian Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin
Registrar
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.
Red King
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.
Sarah's father
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
Bayldon
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
The Professor
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.
English Producer
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Milroy
필립 킴벌리 경은 영국 첩보(S.I.S. 일명 M.I.6)의 대장이자 영국 내에서도 장래가 촉망되는 인물이다. 하지만 사실 그는 몰래 소련과 내통하고 있는 스파이였다. 이 일이 탄로나자 킴벌리는 소련으로 망명하여 KGB의 보호 감호 속에 십여 년을 지낸다. 그러던 어느 날, KGB는 그를 강제로 성형수술시켜 세르게이 쿠즈민스키라는 새로운 인물을 만들고, 킴벌리는 간경화증으로 사망한 것으로 만든다. 쿠즈민스키라는 주 영소대사관 상무관으로 신분을 위장한 그는 영국에 부임하여 특수 임무를 수행하기로 한다.
Waiter
Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
Doctor at Shrublands
세계 각국에서 테러와를 일삼는 조직 스펙터는 심혈을 기울여 온 작전을 시작한다. 영국에서 시험 발사되는 크루즈 미사일 2개의 모의 탄두를 핵탄두로 교체한 다음 미사일을 탈취한 이들은, 관련 국가들에게 연간 석유 구입 비용의 25%를 내놓으라고 요구하는 한편 7일 이내에 요구를 들어주지 않으면 복수를 강행 하겠다고 협박한다. 이에 놀란 영국 정부가 서방 국가들과 긴밀하게 협조하는 가운데 현장 업무에서 물러나 있던 제임스 본드가 복귀한다. 용의자 라르고를 찾아 바하마로 간 본드는 라르고의 정부인 도미노를 만나는데...
Theatre Surgeon
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Langley
This true story follows the exploits of a top-secret British military mission to destroy Nazi radio ships in a neutral harbor during WWII. The daring plan is led by British Intelligence officers Col. Lewis Pugh (Gregory Peck) and Capt. Gavin Stewart (Roger Moore). Since the ships are in neutral territory the British Military command, while encouraging the scheme, must deny any knowledge of it if it fails. Pugh and Stewart enlist the aid of retired officer Col. Bill Grice (David Niven) and some of his former soldiers. On the pretext of being on a fishing expedition, these seemingly drunken old men in civilian clothing must board and destroy 3 Nazi ships, whose radio transmissions have resulted in Nazi submarines sinking allied ships. While Stewart arranges a diversion onshore, Pugh and Grice carry out the dangerous raid on and destruction of the Nazi ships.
Executive Producer
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Ian Faulkner
Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...
Army Captain/Power Station Technician/Duke of Belminster
임페리얼 커피 컴퍼니의 판매사원인 믹 트래비스는 사원교육에서 진심 어린 미소로 좋은 평가를 받는다. 이로 인해 트래비스는 다른 사원들보다 빨리 실전에 투입되어 동북부 지역의 판매를 담당하게 된다. 하지만 커피 판매는 생각처럼 쉽지 않고, 트래비스는 예상치 못한 사건들에 휘말리게 된다. 1950년대 영국 프리시네마의 기수 앤더슨의 작품으로, 초현실적인 분위기가 가득한 코믹 판타지. 앤더슨은 트래비스의 파란만장한 세일즈 여정 속에서 자본주의의 허상을 짚어본다. 원안의 아이디어는 트래비스 역의 말콤 맥도웰의 경험에서 시작되었다고 한다.
Producer
임페리얼 커피 컴퍼니의 판매사원인 믹 트래비스는 사원교육에서 진심 어린 미소로 좋은 평가를 받는다. 이로 인해 트래비스는 다른 사원들보다 빨리 실전에 투입되어 동북부 지역의 판매를 담당하게 된다. 하지만 커피 판매는 생각처럼 쉽지 않고, 트래비스는 예상치 못한 사건들에 휘말리게 된다. 1950년대 영국 프리시네마의 기수 앤더슨의 작품으로, 초현실적인 분위기가 가득한 코믹 판타지. 앤더슨은 트래비스의 파란만장한 세일즈 여정 속에서 자본주의의 허상을 짚어본다. 원안의 아이디어는 트래비스 역의 말콤 맥도웰의 경험에서 시작되었다고 한다.
Producer
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Nephew Fred
돈밖에 모르는 수전노 스크루지는 크리스마스를 기뻐하며 축하하는 사람들이 못마땅하기만 하다. 가난한 사람들에게 비싼 이자를 받는 고리대금업으로 돈을 모으는 것이 인생의 유일한 낙인 그는 크리스마스라고 저녁초대를 하러 찾아온 조카를 매몰차게 보내고 집으로 돌아온다. 혼자 저녁을 먹던 스크루지는 동업자였던 말리의 유령을 만나게 되는데, 말리는 무거운 쇠사슬을 온 몸에 감고 그에게 계속 비열하게 살면 자신과 같은 운명이 될 거라고 경고하고 새벽에 세 명의 유령이 스크루지를 찾아올 거라고 말하고 떠난다. 잠시 후 새벽이 되자 스크루지에게 과거와 현재, 미래의 유령이 나타나고 그는 과거로 가서 순수했던 자신의 모습과 연인을 보고 후회하게 된다. 또 현재의 유령과는 비서인 크래칫과 조카의 집을 방문해 자신의 참모습을 보게 되고, 미래의 유령과 찾아간 미래에선 비참한 자신의 미래를 보고 깊은 반성을 한다. 새벽이 지나고 아침이 되자 스크루지는 무사히 자신의 방에서 깨어나 깊은 참회의 눈물을 흘리며 세상을 위해 사는 새로운 사람이 되겠다고 다짐한다. 기쁨에 찬 스크루지는 자신한테 빚진 사람들의 돈을 탕감해 주고 크래칫을 찾아가 주급을 올려준 후 병든 아들인 팀의 병을 고쳐주겠다고 약속한다.
Producer
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.
Producer
모든 것이 군대식으로 계급화, 획일화된 영국의 전통적인 사립학교 기숙사. 반항적인 소년 믹 트래비스는 숨 막히는 예배의식과 권위주의적인 교사들, 강압적인 규율을 견디다 못해 두 친구와 함께 전쟁을 일으키기로 한다. 개교기념일을 맞이하여 지붕 위로 올라간 그들은 기관총을 난사하고, 군인 출신의 교장은 그들을 향해 발포를 명령한다. 개인의 자유를 부정하고 억압하는 권위적인 제도들에 대한 젊은 세대들의 선전포고와 전복적 가치관을 담고 있는 이 영화는 68혁명 당시의 분위기를 반영한 강렬한 시대정신과 제도교육에 대한 통렬한 비판이 초현실적인 미장센으로 그려지고 있다. 장 비고의 걸작 에 바치는 오마주이다
Producer
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
John Felix
《홍콩에서 온 백작부인》은 1967년 개봉한 영국의 로맨틱 코미디 영화이다. 찰리 채플린이 감독과 각본을 맡았다. 영화 《파리의 여인》과 함께 찰리 채플린 연출작 중 그가 주연으로 출연하지 않는 영화 중 하나이며, 그의 유일한 컬러 필름이다.
Sewer Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Hymie Campbell
A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs.
Tommy
When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smuggling gang whom he double-crossed on a previous trip. So begins a day of chilling suspense, as he and other crew members find themselves embroiled in a desperate race to get out of the country alive!
Ginger
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards; however, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident…
Derek
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...
Max Catlin
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.
Pvt. Watney
2차 대전 말, 연합군은 미 사령관 아이젠 하워의 지휘하에 독일과의 전쟁을 종결시킬 작전을 구상한다. 그것은 유럽의 중심지이자 프랑스의 해안지방인 노르망디에 극비의 상륙작전을 개시하는 것. 이러한 연합군의 작전 계획을 염탐한 독일군은 2차대전 최대의 격전지인 프랑스 노르망디를 사수하고자 경계를 더욱 강화한다. 치밀한 작전 계획을 준비한 연합군은 작전 성공을 위해 비가 오는 악천후 속에서도 훈련을 거듭하고 병사들 사이에서는 서서히 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 1944년 6월 6일 새벽, 드디어 런던의 연합군 최고 사령부는 노르망디 상륙작전의 개시를 알리는데...
Ronnie Bassett
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Ginger
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
Officer Lamb
Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like a Chinese motorcycle.
Cooper
A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess
Lt. Vernon
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
Cpl. Springer
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
Dr. Charles Bingham
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
Ginger
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
Pvt. Docker
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
Alf Higgins
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of interest in the characterisation and mise-en-scene. You can see Losey's long-take style in its early stages. If anything, his filming is TOO articulate, tipping his hand and giving away plot turns before they happen.
Sub-lieutenant Trail
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
Smart
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
Martin Teckman
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
Bob Carter
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...
Ginger Edwards
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Dr. Toby Andrews
The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.
Ramsey
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
Timothy Blake
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Father To Be (Uncredited)
젊은 변호사 알랜 맥킴(Alan McKim: 존 그레그슨 분)은 골동품 수집가이다. 특히 그는 1904년 드라크사가 제작한 '제네비에브'를 가장 아낀다. 하지만 알랜의 아내(Wendy McKim: 다이나 셔리단 분)는 자동차를 사랑하는 남편의 집념을 이해하지 못한다. 매해 런던에서는 브라이튼에 이르는 자동차 경주가 벌어진다. 알랜은 이 자동차 경주에 참가할 준비를 하고 그의 오래된 친구 암브로소 클래버하우스(Ambrose Claverhouse: 케네스 모어 분)도 1904년형 골동품차를 몰고 온다. 클래버하우스는 알랜의 '제네비에브'에 대한 악성 루머를 퍼뜨리는가 하면 알랜과 부인 사이를 이간질한다. 전국 각지에서 수많은 선수들이 참가한 가운데 드디어 자동차 경주가 시작되고 클래버하우스는 여자 친구 로잘린드 피터스(Rosalind Peters: 케이 켄달 분)와 함께 시합에 참가한다. 그러나 알랜의 가는 길마다 재앙이 따르고 결국엔 브라이튼에 제 시간에 도착하지 못해 시합에서 떨어지고 만다. 그날 밤 암브로소와 알랜은 나이트클럽에서 우연히 만나게 되는데, 암브로소는 알랜의 부인과 춤을 추면서 야릇한 감정을 느낀다. 호텔로 돌아온 알랜은 암브로소에게 호의를 보인 부인을 의심하면서 질투심에 휩싸인다. 차고에서 만난 알랜과 알브로소는 말다툼을 하게 되고 화가 난 암브로소는 알랜에게 제네비에브에 대한 악담을 늘어놓는다. 화가 난 알랜은 암브로소에게 런던으로 되돌아가는 경주를 하자고 제안한다. 런던의 웨스트미니스터 다리에 먼저 도착하는 사람이 100파운드를 차지한다는 내기였다. 알랜과 암브로소는 내기에서 이기기 위해 온갖 수단을 다 동원한다. 아슬아슬한 경주가 계속되고 결국엔 알랜이 이끄는 제네비에브가 승리한다. 알랜은 아내에 대한 의심이 부질없는 것이었다는 것을 깨닫고 두 사람은 서로에 대한 사랑을 확인한다.
Chick
게는 감추고 싶은 비밀이 있다. 다음 날, 경찰들은 아기가 학대당하고 있다는 신고를 받고 출동하는데, 집에 홀로 남겨진 아기가 창가에 앉아 있는 위험한 광경을 목격한다. 영국에서 가장 많은 작품을 남긴 여성 감독 뮤리엘 박스의 작품으로, 여성 경찰들의 다사다난한 하루하루를 다큐멘터리 스타일로 담았다.
Ernest
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.
Smedley
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
George Ackroyd
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.
Dick Pentwick
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
Jerry Winterton
In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
Sgt. Harry Stuart
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
Leslie Scott
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Steward
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Johnny
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Ronnie Martin
A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
Alf "Sparrow" Thompson
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.
Monty, Marquis of Maidenhead
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.
Len, Herbie's bar pal
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Hovaisky
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.
Cabby
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
Man Giving BBC Boxing Talk
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.
Yellow
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
Harris
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Writer
A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.
Emile Garat
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
Rocky
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Spiv
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
Duke of Nonesuch
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Johnnie Fletcher
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.
Edward Courtney
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
Radio Operator
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.