The Blue Lamp was a seminal film from Ealing Studios that set out to show ‘fairly and realistically the work of the London police,’ as producer...
ITV Sitcom Kindly Leave The Kerb, another Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer series, followed the exploits of a pair of old buskers, Ernest Tanner (Peter Butterworth)...
David Farrar takes the lead in this British thriller as Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Craig, desperately hunting for the kidnapped child of American diplomat Lee Cochrane...
In taut little B picture Burnt Evidence electrician Jack Taylor (Duncan Lamont) is going through something of a hard time. His business is on the verge...
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...
Described by The News of the World as ‘a great and stirring British war film’, The Gift Horse follows a ship and her crew from the...
In gentle culture-clash comedy A Day To Remember a group of British tourists descends on liberated France. They are the darts team of The Hand and...
Absorbing police melodrama The Long Arm is, said The Star “the most enjoyable game of cops-and-robbers since The Blue Lamp“. But where The Blue Lamp offered...
In Negotiations with strike action threatened, the Union is called in to settle the conflict with the two sets of drivers. Carter is determined that the...
UK / BBC / 6×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 11 October – 15 November 1961 black and white Writer: Ted Willis and Edward J Mason /...