Googie Withers

Безрадостное детство под властью деспотичного отца. Юность, полная надежд и разочарований. Учеба в лучшей музыкальной школе мира, первые успехи и, наконец, всемирная слава. Вот лишь некоторые страницы из жизни одного из лучших пианистов современности Дэвида Хэлфготта, который прошел через тяжелые лишения и титанический труд, чтобы достичь вершин своего мастерства.

Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.

A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes horribly wrong.

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

Hotel du Lac, a screenplay version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner, starring Anna Massey, was released in 1986 as an episode of the BBC's "Screen Two" series.

Фильм снят по одноименному роману Джейн Остин. Дочь мелкопоместных дворян, Кэтрин Морлэнд, едет со своей теткой на водный курорт в Бат, где знакомится с Хенри Тилни, сыном генерала Тилни, слывущего богатым человеком. Но генерал, азартный игрок, как становится ясно позднее, давно промотал состояние умершей при загадочных обстоятельствах жены. В Бате его неверно информировали, что Кэтрин — перспективная невеста, и он приглашает ее в свое поместье (Нортенгерское аббатство), чтобы выгодно женить сына. Представьте себе его разочарование, когда он узнает, что родители Кэтрин бедны. Но Хенри и Кэтрин полюбили друг друга... Кэтрин начиталась готических романов, описывающих, как в старинных замках мужья-злодеи измывались над юными девами. Сама себя она часто представляла без чувств на руках огромного изверга со шпагой, несущего ее на огромную кровать. Находясь в замке генерала, она пытается разобраться в обстоятельствах смерти его супруги...

'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.

Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.

Фильм посвящен трагической судьбе изобретателя первой в мире кинокамеры Уильяма Фриз-Грина. Свою деятельность Фриз-Грин начал в одной из фотостудий Бристоля и вскоре завоевал признание своими талантливыми снимками. Но ему хочется воспроизвести жизнь в движении. После долгих усилий ему удалось создать необходимый аппарат, но им никто не заинтересовался и бедность не покидала семейство Фриз-Гринов. Он похоронил первую жену, а вторая ушла, не вынеся постоянной нужды. Сыновья вступили в армию во время Первой мировой войны, и Фриз-Грин умер в полной неизвестности, одиноким, без всяких средств к существованию.

Симпатичная официантка ради смеха решает участвовать в конкурсе красоты и неожиданно его выигрывает. Но погружение в шоу-бизнес оказывается не таким радужным, как казалось ранее. Её начинают преследовать неудачи, и она чуть не скатывается до стриптиз-ревю. Но есть надежда, что всё кончится хорошо.

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.

Гарри Фабиан — Лондонский шустрила с честолюбивыми планами, которые никогда не срабатывают. Однажды, когда он сталкивается с наиболее известным греко-римским борцом в мире, Грегориусом, в лондонской борцовской арене, которой управляет его сын Кристо, он выдумывает схему, которая, как он думает, положит начало к его финансовой независимости.

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

Таинственный клиент приглашает архитектора Крэйга в свой дом, и по прибытии у Крэйга появляется странное чувство, что это место ему знакомо, несмотря на то, что ранее он никогда тут не бывал. Вскоре выясняется, что это на самом деле кошмарный сон, и чтобы пробудиться, Крэйгу придётся выслушать пять страшных историй от собравшихся здесь людей.

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?

Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.

Бомбардировщик английских ВВС Vickers Wellington по имени «Б — значит Берти» (англ. B for Bertie) разбивается в Нидерландах недалеко от Зёйдерзе во время бомбометательного вылета по Штутгарту. Его экипажу (двум пилотам, двум стрелкам, радисту и навигатору) приходится прыгать с парашютом. Пятеро из них быстро находят друг друга, но шестой их товарищ пропал. Вскоре группа встречает нескольких местных жителей под предводительством школьной учительницы Элсе Мертенс, знающей английский язык. Поначалу голландцы не верят лётчикам, так как не видели никакой авиакатастрофы, но вскоре соглашаются помочь потерпевшим крушение, несмотря на некоторые опасения. Замаскированные англичане в сопровождении множества местных жителей отправляются на велосипедах на футбольный матч, где их передают в попечение местному бургомистру. Там же неожиданно и обнаруживается потерявшийся член экипажа. Англичане незамеченными почти достигают моря, но в последний момент их обнаруживает часовой...

Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...

A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.

Действие фильма происходит накануне второй Мировой Войны. В поезде, едущем из Тироля в Лондон, загадочным образом исчезает пожилая леди. Ее попутчица начинает расследовать это происшествие вместе с молодым человеком. Постепенно они, вместе с остальными пассажирами, оказываются втянутыми в шпионскую интригу.

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.

Довоенный разведчик Томми Блайт прерывает свой медовый месяц, чтобы расследовать обнаружение жизненно важных чертежей министерства авиации на женщину, погибшую в дорожно-транспортном происшествии в Лондоне. Тропа ведет к пансиону в Ноттинг-Хилле и его разнообразным жильцам.

Кейт - секретарь лорда Флэмборо. Но она также является лидером преступной группировки. Сможет ли Майк Пембертон поймать ее с поличным?

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.

Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance

When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a sea cruise. Posing as a successful writer, Joe attracts various attractive women to him on the voyage, but his deceptions start to land him in trouble.

British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.

Romance set in a chemical factory.

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes implicated in her sudden death.