Mandy is diagnosed profoundly deaf at the age of two. Her parents struggle to come to terms with her condition, but when her mother decides to send her away to a school for the deaf, the family begins to splinter.
When a bunch of new recruits are called up for national service, they are given to Sergeant Grimshawe (William Hartnell) as his final troop before he retires. The Sergeant decides to place a £50 bet with his fellow sergeants that his new group will become champion squad. However upon assessing hi...
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 w...
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...
