Thora Hird

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, ...

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to ...

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s ...

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a “Mr. and Mrs.” TV show.

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a ...

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Because of its high productivity and “almost” 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the ...

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it ...

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family’s chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years ...

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and ...