The Assyrian Rejuvenator: Conman and invesigator Romney Pringle exposes a swindle and makes a profit. Cast: Donald Sinden (Romney Pringle), Michael Bates (Colonel Sandstream), Jo Rowbottom...
Besides bringing us the genius of Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian and Edwardian era was truly a golden age of detective fiction and in the sparkling ITV...
Period comedy drama All’s Well That Ends Well, an entry in the BBC’s Television Shakespeare collection, when Bertram (Ian Charleson), the King of France marries Helena...
Based on a script by Robin Maugham and Bryan Forbes, 1956 movie The Black Tent is a wartime romance mystery starring Anthony Steel as British officer...
In legal drama Judge John Deed, Martin Shaw, with just the right amount of gravitas, plays the high court Judge of the title, who with a...
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...
While Gerald Thomas directed the longest-running comedy franchise in the world (the Carry On movies), elder brother Ralph contented himself with directing a mere seven movies...
The minimal plot of Twice Round the Daffodils centres on four new arrivals at the sanatorium – RAF officer Ian Richards (Donald Sinden), brawny Welsh miner...
This was one of Ealing Studio’s most financially successful productions and it consolidated Jack Hawkins’ star status, which he had established with his strong performance the...
Producer William MacQuitty spent several years in the Navy and his love of all things nautical -submarines in particular – inspired him to make the action-packed...