Cast: Avis Bunnage

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Tom Courtenay · Michael Redgrave · James Bolam · Avis Bunnage

Synopsis A Borstal boy has nothing going for him except the ability to run. He is selected to compete against a public school and starts a training programme, during which he relives his troubled past and plans how to show his...

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Albert Finney · Shirley Anne Field · Rachel Roberts · Hylda Baker

Synopsis Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is a young man filled with a rage perhaps even he doesn't fully understand. Working in the tough environment of a Nottingham factory, he compensates for the drudgery and discipline of his weekday life with weekends...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Edith Evans · Nanette Newman · Harry Baird · Jack Austin

Synopsis The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Leslie Caron · Tom Bell · Bernard Lee · Brock Peters

Synopsis Jane (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, but is unhappy with this solution. She falls...

Direction Joan Littlewood

Cast James Booth · Barbara Windsor · Roy Kinnear · Avis Bunnage

Synopsis Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch...

Direction David Giles

Cast Alan Bates · Anna Massey · Jack Galloway · Janet Maw

Synopsis In a drunken and disheartened state, Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair. When he becomes sober again he realises what he has done, and though unable to find his wife and child, changes his ways. He becomes the...

Direction James Dearden

Cast Julie Neesam · Peter Blake · Avis Bunnage · Leonard Fenton

Synopsis A woman has second thoughts about the hitchhiker she just picked up.

Direction Peter Smith

Cast Michael Angelis · Avis Bunnage · James Ellis · Tom Georgeson

Synopsis A scheduling mixup means two groups of old-timers have reserved the same bar for a party on the same night. The situation is trickier than expected since the bar is in Liverpool, and one group are Protestant die-hards while the...

Direction Mike Ockrent

Cast Denyse Alexander · John Bird · Mark Boyton · Avis Bunnage

Synopsis Cleaning woman and war widow Hilda Capper realizes on her birthday that her life is better than that of her employers.

Direction John Boulting

Cast Anton Rodgers · Charlotte Rampling · Eric Sykes · Ian Bannen

Synopsis Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing...

Direction Anthony Page

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Jürgen Prochnow · Irene Worth · Peter Vaughan

Synopsis In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between young countess Nina von Halder (Bisset) who is studying veterinary medicine and a Fritz Friedländer (Prochnow), a man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall...