With a star-studded cast, The Magic Box follows the marvellous and magical life of William Friese-Greene (Robert Donat) as he works tirelessly to develop ever more innovative technological gadgets for capturing the moving image. This engaging biopic celebrates the medium of cinema joyously, looking back at the wonder of its early days.
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...
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...
