Before Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies there was At Last the 1948 Show, the ground-breaking comedy sketch series starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Marty Feldman, and Aimi MacDonald. Highlights of this package include brilliant a solo turn from Brooke-Taylor as the one-man battalion, Chapman as a government minister literally falling to pieces, an outstanding Cleese/Feldman two-hander, ‘The Wonderful World of the Ant’, and all ending with a rousing rendition of ‘The Ferret Song’.
Knowing it is every prisoner's duty to escape, Allied prisoners hatch an ingenious plan to do just that. Inspired by Greek mythology, the soldiers use their wooden vaulting horse to cover an escape tunnel that hopes to make its way under the camp's wire fence. Inspired by one of the most famous e...
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, looki...
Carol Reed, fresh off the success of Odd Man Out (1947) and The Third Man (1949), directs this crime thriller with James Mason and Claire Bloom in the lead roles. In post-war Berlin, Ivo Kern (Mason) is a man with a criminal past who participates in the accidental kidnapping of British citizen Su...
