Enemy at the Door was a wartime drama series. During World War II a group of Islanders from Guernsey face upto their land being taken over...
In Edgar Wallace Mystery Backfire businessman Bernard Curzon runs a cosmetics company, Venetia, with his shady partner Mitchell Logan. The company is in dire straits and...
‘Michael McCarthy’s considerable experience in the documentary field is well in evidence in this semi-factual war melodrama set in Nazi-occupied Holland,’ wrote Monthly Film Bulletin of...
In Poison Susan is acting rather out of character, the normally ever present twinkle in her eye is gone and she is not only making furtive...
In Don’t Forget You’re Mine Frank Marker has moved from London to Birmingham and is working out of the back room of an estate agents. The...
In Unlucky For Some, the very last episode of Public Eye, Frank is asked by Ethel Waterfield, who runs a hotel with her son Keith, to...
In If This Is Lucky, I’d Rather Be Jonah, the opening episode of the third season of Public Eye, Frank has what he thinks is a...
In Fit of Conscience town planner John Friendly seeks Frank’s help about a bribe he took from builder Mr Brightwell over the development of a block of...
In Take No For An Answer Frank has had his electricity supply cut off thanks to the late payment of a bill, something giving him great...
In All For A Couple of Ponies, the very first episode of Public Eye, Frank Marker, private inquiry agent, has a seemingly straightforward case – a...
Michael Mann’s epic film is set in the America of 1757, where the French and the English are fighting for...
Spencer Tracy’s first screen appearance (and Humphrey Bogart’s second) in a prison comedy by John Ford. Ex-con Tracy gets himself...
This parable of organised violence gained unwanted relevance after September 11 but it still retains the power to shock and...
The Power and the Glory is something of a cinema breakthrough, this film was hailed at the time for its...
Although his Oscar antics may have sealed his image as a lovable joker, ebullient in his success and clambering over...
Man’s Castle is a pre-Code, Depression-era story with surprisingly adult themes from master of melodrama Borzage. Spencer Tracy, like millions...
In this tongue-in-cheek pop art meets the Avenger’s-esque espionage flick glamorous Modesty Blaise is called in by HM Government to...
The phrase ‘sleeper hit’ was never better applied than to Mike (Get Carter) Hodges’ film, whose initial distribution wasn’t just...
Memorably described as ‘Hitchcock 90210′, John McNaughton’s classy thriller uses the master’s template to craft a tale of betrayal. The...
Jennifer Aniston stars alongside Kevin Bacon and Olympia Dukakis in a sprightly romantic comedy from the creator of Moonlighting. She...