An English lady falls for an American air force sergeant in this romantic WWII drama directed by Herbert Wilcox. In love with army major David Bruce (Rex Harrison), Lady Patricia Fairfax (Anna Neagle) soons finds herself falling for the charms of American flyer John Patterson (Dean Jagger) when he arrives at London's Grosvenor Square to spend some well-earned leave. After learning of Pat and David's long expectation of marriage, Patterson decides to do the decent thing and return to combat. His decision, however, soon brings events to a tragic conclusion for all concerned.
While attempting a robbery, Edge (Adrian Lester), a burglar, is held at gunpoint by an elderly woman and forced to hear a story. The story involves two brothers at the turn of the 20th Century, as they feud over a young woman. Ingeniously switching between two entwining stories from the past and ...
The era of the British New Wave came of age with John Schlesinger’s comedy, one of the enduring films from the movement that crucially combines humour and literary pedigree with its ‘kitchen sink’ realism.
This agreeably murky tale of court intrigue, corruption and sexual manipulation is a rare excursion for Ealing into historical drama. Peter Bull and Joan Greenwood are perfectly cast as the dissolute Prince George-Louis and his reluctant bride Sophie Dorothea. Shooting in colour for the first tim...
