Guy Middleton
1907 - 1973
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Frank Launder
Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Laughter in Paradise
Mario Zampi
Fay Compton, George Cole
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Laughter in Paradise
The Captive Heart
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
The Captive Heart
Балканский ветер
Anthony Asquith
Уильям Болдуин, Ray Milland
История белградского наркобарона Петара Мараша и его конфликта с влиятельным государственным куратором сербского криминального мира по кличке Красный. Вражда начинается из-за участка земли в сербской глубинке, который имеет стратегическое международное значение: именно тут должна пройти трасса газопровода, вокруг строительства которого схлестнулись американские и российские спецслужбы. Спасаясь от наемников, Мараш оказывается в России, где сталкивается с агентом секретной службы Ларисой и невольно становится причастным к гибели ее брата. Теперь Петар Мараш станет объектом охоты сербских, американских и российских спецагентов, а также мафиозных кланов всей Юго-Восточной Европы.
South Wind: On the Border
Oh! What a Lovely War
Richard Attenborough
Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.
Oh! What a Lovely War
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Kevin Billington
Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
The Belles of St. Trinian's
Frank Launder
Alastair Sim, George Cole
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
The Belles of St. Trinian's
The Rake's Progress
Sidney Gilliat
Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
The Rake's Progress
The Halfway House
Basil Dearden
Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns
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 they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
The Halfway House
Albert R.N.
Lewis Gilbert
Anthony Steel, Jack Warner
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Albert R.N.
