Father-daughter tensions arise when a millionaire (Harker), suspecting his playgirl daughter's fiancé is a gold-digger, pretends the family fortune is gone. A bubbly comic parable built around Betty Balfour's effervescent energy, the film is an early example of Hitchcock's long-term fascination with the foibles of the filthy rich.
A schizophrenic woman struggles to cope with an oppressive family and unsympathetic medics in Ken Loach's hard-hitting drama. A remake of David Mercer's In Two Minds, which Loach had previously made for the BBC's The Wednesday Play series. Drawing on RD Laing's critique of the diagnosis and treat...
Telling the story of a family trying to make sense of a postwar world, Frieda asks the awkward question, 'Does a good German exist?' There isn't one simple answer but many, represented by the various reactions of the inhabitants of the English village of Denfield when a German refugee arrives as ...
The bomb-torn streets of postwar London are the stage for a ripping boys'-own adventure in this buoyant classic, the first of the great 'Ealing comedies'. When schoolboy dreamer Joe discovers that robbers are planning their crimes using secret codes in a children's comic, the police are unconvinc...
