Screenplay: T.E.B. Clarke

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Alec Guinness · Stanley Holloway · Sid James · Alfie Bass

Plot Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy retiring man who dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer...

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Stanley Holloway · Betty Warren · Barbara Murray · Paul Dupuis

Plot When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, an area of London, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is, in fact part of...

Direction Jack Cardiff

Cast Trevor Howard · Dean Stockwell · Wendy Hiller · Heather Sears

Plot Set in an English mining town, the film focuses on Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell), the sensitive son of a roughhewn, alcoholic miner (Trevor Howard) and his gentle, repressed wife (Wendy...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Stanley Holloway · George Relph · Naunton Wayne · John Gregson

Plot Comedy of railfans who take over their village's passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons it.

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Alastair Sim · Harry Fowler · Douglas Barr · Joan Dowling

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Dorothy Tutin · Paul Guers · Marie Versini

Plot British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue...

Direction John Ford

Cast Jack Hawkins · Dianne Foster · Cyril Cusack · Andrew Ray

Plot Chief Inspector from Scotland Yard Gideons starts his day badly wit a traffic ticket, but faces then such cases as an escaped and murderous madman, and a payroll robbery.

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Jimmy Hanley · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Flemyng

Plot A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies which finally results in the death of a policeman.

Direction Ronald Neame · Cliff Owen

Cast James Garner · Melina Mercouri · Sandra Dee · Anthony Franciosa

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Alec Guinness · Irene Browne · Maurice Denham · Percy Herbert

Plot Alec Guinness plays a British Naval Captain, plagued by incurable seasickness, who retires from service and buys a decrepit amusement pier in a small coastal town. After discovering the local...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Robert Beatty · Simone Signoret · Jack Warner · Gordon Jackson

Direction Sidney Cole · Charles Crichton · Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Gladys Henson · Susan Shaw · Patric Doonan

Plot A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Robert Morley · Kay Walsh · Edward Underdown · Fella Edmonds

Plot A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Michael Redgrave · Robert Morley · Ronald Squire · Elizabeth Sellars

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Benny Hill · Belinda Lee · David Kossoff · Garry Marsh

Plot This early feature foreshadows the schtick of TV mischief-maker Benny Hill. Here, Hill stars as Hugo Dill, an amateur detective and self-styled master of disguise. Somehow, the bumbling Dill manages...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Françoise Rosay · Tom Walls · Patricia Roc · Ralph Michael

Plot Warring communities of Breton and Cornish fishermen bury their differnces during the war and make friends when France is occupied by the Germans.

Direction Don Chaffey

Cast Jean-Pierre Aumont · Herbert Lom · Leo McKern · Pamela Franklin

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast David Farrar · Ralph Michael · Robert Wyndham · John Slater

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Mervyn Johns · Glynis Johns · Tom Walls · Françoise Rosay

Plot A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as...

Direction Harold French · Pat Jackson · Anthony Pelissier

Cast Nigel Patrick · Roland Culver · Kay Walsh · Noel Purcell

Plot The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey, puts...