Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her. This gritty, urban reimagining by Christine Edzard transposes Shakespeare's rural comedy to London's Docklands, then undergoing extensive redevelopment. While not a commercial success upon release it was ahead of its time in its counterintuitive presentation of Shakespeare in a modern setting.
A gripping apocalyptic thriller from the Boulting Brothers, the relevance of which remains undiminished today. Praised upon its release as 'the most intelligent film so far to touch upon one of the problems confronting an atomic age', it used some 70 locations around London and remains a vivid sn...
Shakespeareís Rome ñ a city of corruption and betrayal. At the head of power is Coriolanus (an incendiary Ralph Fiennes), a duplicitous and entitled war hero who imposes his extreme ideals and causes a mass riot. Banished from the city by its citizens, politicians, and even his own mother (Vaness...
A rare, late excursion into noir for Ealing Studios, scripted by first-time director Holt and critic Ken Tynan and intended as 'the least Ealing film ever made'. A good-looking ex-con (George Nader) coolly robs an old lady of her coin collection, anticipating prison, but also the later recovery o...
