Screenplay: Nicholas Phipps

Direction David Lean

Cast Ann Todd · Norman Wooland · Ivan Desny · Leslie Banks

Synopsis Based on the true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family, she stood trial in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. Her trial was much publicized in the newspapers of the day...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast David Niven · Glynis Johns · George Coulouris · Barry Jones

Synopsis At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid...

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast Alec Guinness · Yvonne De Carlo · Celia Johnson · Charles Goldner

Synopsis Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organised - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Muriel Pavlow · Kenneth More · Donald Sinden

Synopsis Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950's medical training. There is, however,...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Brenda De Banzie · Brigitte Bardot · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Michael Wilding · Frances Mercer · Coral Browne

Synopsis Anna Neagle is a WWII WREN---the counterpart of the American WAVE---who encounters Michael Wilding in a blacked-out Piccadilly during an air raid. They get married and have a two-day honeymoon before she is sent to Singapore. The ship in which...

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Tom Walls · Glynis Johns · Jeanne De Casalis · Hugh McDermott

Synopsis A Canadian soldier is billeted with a British family for the Christmas holidays to the delight of the two unmarried daughters.

Direction Jack Lee

Cast John Gregson · Peggy Cummins · Donald Sinden · Nadia Gray

Synopsis A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Hugh Williams · Isabel Jeans · Michael Lawrence

Synopsis Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Jean-Pierre Aumont · Joan Hopkins · Cecil Parker · Margaretta Scott

Synopsis The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Direction Wendy Toye

Cast John Gregson · Cecil Parker · June Thorburn · Keith Michell

Synopsis Newlywed Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Michael Wilding · Tom Walls · Peter Graves

Synopsis An aristocrat, (Michael Wilding), falls out with his dim family and obtains the position of a footman with a posh family who live in Park Lane, an exclusive area of London.Only the butler knows Michael's real identity which he keeps...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Michael Wilding · Gladys Young · Daphne Slater

Synopsis On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Peter Finch · Stanley Holloway · Mary Peach · Donald Pleasence

Synopsis Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him.

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Michael Craig · Mary Peach · Brenda De Banzie · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis A recently-qualified barrister is annoyed when he finds his firm is taking on the boss's niece. The two youngsters soon find themselves in court on opposite sides in a case on the restitution of conjugal rights where both plaintiff and...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Michael Craig · Virginia Maskell · Leslie Phillips · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Muriel Pavlow · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery...

Direction Peter Graham Scott · Seymour Friedman

Cast George Raft · Sally Gray · Frederick Piper · Reginald Tate

Synopsis When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Frankie Vaughan · Janette Scott · Anthony Newley

Synopsis Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Michael Wilding · Odile Versois · Jack Hulbert · Constance Cummings

Synopsis A couple hire a yacht for what they hope will be a relaxing cruise to Norway, but instead become involved with smugglers and end up going up the River Seine to Paris.