Strong drama series Maybury dealt with the professional and personal life of psychiatrist Eddie Roebuck (Patrick Stewart) who worked in a mental institution. The intent was...
Festival was a BBC anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. The first production was Noel Coward’s Fallen...
This sharp adaptation of Orwell’s novel by director Michael Radford and Jonathan Gelns wisely avoids the temptation to decorate the story with modish science fiction trimmings...
Adapted from AJ Cronin’s novel, this is the story of a minor diplomat, played with admirable restraint by Michael Horden, who becomes increasingly jealous of the...
Period comedy. Shaw’s comic tour-de-force is set beside the seaside where a holiday atmosphere prevails. Amidst the sunshine and sea air, against a background of a...
Samuel Goldwyn loaned David Niven to Alexander Korda’s London Films to play the title role in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s version of Baroness Orczy’s adventure....
‘Thank heavens’, wrote Reynolds News of this charming drama, ‘for a British film free of outmoded snobbery, a film about working people who are neither criminals...
Waltz of the Toreadors is an adaptation of the titillating play by Jean Anouilh, stars Peter Sellers as General Fitzjohn; eking out his retirement with a...
CEA Film Report called absorbing British period melodrama Esther Waters ‘a well-made picture’ and went on to report ‘it tells a poignant story’. That story was...
Period sitcom, based on a novel by Gabriel Chevallier. It was adapted by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and saw the French villagers of Clochemerle kick...
In Gideon’s Day Inspector Gideon’s (Jack Hawkins) day begins badly. A zealous constable issues him with a parking ticket, and Gideon has to accuse his colleague...
In a career that spanned more than 50 years as first a writer then director, Val Guest helmed 65 films, many of which have become accepted...
1972 sitcom Them is something of a forgotten entry in the Johnny Speight cannon, it does deal with one of his favourite subjects though – tramps....