Fast-paced comedy-thriller Cottage To Let stars Leslie Banks as inventor John Barrington who during the Second World War is working on a new bomb-sight at his...
“The gentle art of getting and remaining ‘one up’ on the next fellow, so painstakingly chronicled by British humorist Stephen Potter in his series of books,...
This is the second screen appearance of Ronald Searle’s immortal creations under the now experienced leadership of director Frank Launder. With St. Trinian’s headmistress Miss Fritton...
Sidney Gilliat’s lauded drama stars John Mills and Joy Shelton as Jim and Lillie Colter, a young couple wrenched apart by war. It’s the height of...
A beautifully restrained performance from the legendary Alastair Sim is at the centre of this piece of vintage mystery from the mid 1950’s. Based on the...
If school performance tables had been in existence in the ’50s, there’s no doubt where St Trinian’s would have appeared, thanks to its conniving, unruly miscreants...
Stage Fright, a later British production from Alfred Hitchcock features an outstanding cast. Acting student Jane Wyman’s ex-boyfriend (Richard Todd) has a major dilemma: his mistress,...
‘Honey – a pure honey… I think you will agree with me this is the most delightful British comedy in years,’ wrote the Sunday Express of...
Two of British cinema’s enduring talents are behind this devilishly funny black comedy: Sidney Launder and Frank Gilliat produced and wrote The Green Man, basing it on...
Alastair Sim is at the peak of his unique wry powers as Christianna Brand’s eccentric but immensely shrewd police Inspector Cockrill, investigating a series of murders...
Left, Right and Centre is a tale love and ballots. Political opponents Ian Carmichael and Patricia Bredin spar their way into each others’ hearts in this delightful...
In London Belongs To Me garage mechanic Richard Attenborough and his mother Gladys Henson are living in a typical south London boarding house in 1939. Also...
The actors and actresses at Ealing Studios may not have threatened MGM and Paramount in the glamour-and-gloss stakes, but their unforgettable portrayals of English toffs, cockneys,...
Comedy series Misleading Cases focused on Albert Haddock who finds himself regularly in trouble with the law and in the dock, but thanks to his encyclopedic...
In The Prodigal Daughter a household of three clerics are struggling to cope with their household duties, all three, led by the elderly Father Perfect are...