The small but memorable body of British coal-mining feature films The number of British feature films revolving around miners is comparatively few in number compared with, say, those highlighting the ...

It's hard to overstate the importance of coal mining to the British way of life. Until the late twentieth century, it was our primary energy source, both industrially and domestically. In the 1920s, 1 ...

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke (Ralph Nickleby); Derek Bond (Nicholas Nickleby); Sally Ann Howes (Kate Nickleby); Bernard Miles (Newman Noggs); Sybil Thorndike (Mrs. Squeers) ...

Alastair Sim was a memorable character player of faded Anglo-Scottish gentility, whimsically put-upon countenance, and sepulchral, sometimes minatory, laugh.

How a small studio brought new blood to the British horror film ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

The Square Peg (d. John Paddy Carstairs, 1958) is perhaps the best of the Wisdom comedies. Well constructed and unsentimental, it features many memorable comic sequences and numerous unexpectedly ...

The occupants of a house in Hove are rescued by the local fire service. James Williamson's Fire! (1901) dramatises the work of his local fire service (Hove Fire Station is clearly identifiable) in ...

One of the most outspoken radical feminist voices in British theatre and cinema in the 1960s and 70s, Jane Arden has since been virtually silenced by near-invisibility: her books long out of print, ...

Although Gainsborough Pictures had been in existence for two decades prior to the release of The Man in Grey (1943) and had generally specialised in comedy, the studio's reputation now largely ...

Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands. Eventually Johnny arrives ...

Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural, Craig is ...