Michael Mulcaster

"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself…

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?

불어 교사인 마리앤은 파리를 떠나 트란실바니아로 일자리를 찾아 떠난다. 어느 마을에 남겨진 마리앤은 묵을 곳이 없자 마을 사람들의 경고에도 남작부인의 초대에 응하고, 부인의 성에 머물기로 한다. 성에서 마리앤은 우연히 부인의 잘생긴 아들을 만나게 되고, 어머니가 병든 자신을 가둬놓았다는 이야기에 그의 탈출을 돕기로 한다.

'배스커빌가의 사냥개'는 셜록 홈즈의 원작 자체도 추리에 크게 신경을 덜 쓴 느낌의 작품입니다. 셜록 홈즈가 보통 왓슨에게 일부 단서만 알려주다가 범인을 늦게 밝히는데 이 원작에서는 비교적 빨리 범인을 왓슨에게 바로 밝힙니다. 범인이 누구냐가 중요한 내용이 아니라 전설속의 마견의 정체에 더 관심을 쏠리게 하는 내용이니까요. 해머 영화사의 이 작품에서 사실 마견의 활용을 꽤 기대했는데 마견의 등장분량은 굉장히 짧습니다. 그래도 39년 영화와는 달리 헨리 경을 덮쳐서 목을 물어뜯을 뻔한 장면을 만들기는 하죠. 그런데 실루엣으로라도 좀 보여주고 그랬더라면 좀 더 음산한 느낌을 주었을텐데 그렇지도 않습니다. 그냥 끝에 잠깐 등장하고 있지요.

어려서부터 똑똑했던 빅터 프랑켄슈타인은, 폴 크렘프를 가정교사로 맞아 그에게서 배우며 성장한다. 조사와 연구에 몰두하던 그는 급기야 사람을 창조하겠다는 야심을 품고, 결과를 우려하며 말리는 폴과의 사이에 깊은 골이 패이게 된다. 우수한 지능을 가진 인간을 만들겠다는 야망에 눈먼 프랑켄슈타인은 시체를 훔치거나 부위 별로 잘라내는 등 온갖 끔찍한 일을 저지르고, 자신의 실험에 대해 알고 있는 하녀 저스틴까지 죽이는 지경에 이른다.

Set in the fairgrounds of 18th century England, the story of a kidnapped heir who regains his rightful inheritance to title and estates with the help of his friends.

After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.

Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.