Rolling in Money
Aug 20, 1934An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Comedy
Leslie Sarony
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Where’s George?
Aug 18, 1935A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
When You Come Home
Jan 01, 1948When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter.
Comedy
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Mar 31, 1983Dans les jours sombres de 1983, la Crimson Permanent Assurance, une société de comptables composée de travailleurs âgés, un peu comme un navire négrier, a été reprise par des entreprises soucieuses d'efficacité. Quand ils licencient un employé, il y a un soulèvement, et le bâtiment est libéré de ses amarres pour traverser l'océan (sec) et s'attaquer aux centres financiers du monde, en commençant par une attaque générale contre le grand gratte-ciel de The Very Big Corporation of America, avec ses canons pour classeurs, ses épée à ventilateur au plafond et ses épée à broche de papier.
Comedy
The Beggar's Opera
Jan 01, 1983A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
Noddy in Toyland
Dec 12, 19571950s, possibly lost film starring Colin Spaull as the Enid Blyton character.
Family
The Country Wife
Feb 13, 1977Cold Harbour
Apr 25, 1978
Waterloo Sunset
Jan 23, 1979Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Drama
The Taming of the Shrew
Oct 23, 1980Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the suitors begin busily hunting out a madman who's willing to do it, and they find Petruchio: a man who's come to wive it wealthily in Padua. And Petruchio marries Kate with a plan to tame her, while everybody else begins scheming to win Bianca's hand.
Drama
Hot Water and Vegetabuel
Mar 18, 1928British music hall star Leslie Sarony sings "When You're Up to Your Neck in Hot Water (Think of the Kettle and Sing)" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Comedy
Game for Three Losers
Apr 01, 1965
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Nov 18, 1976Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.
Drama
The Chinese Detective
Nov 05, 1982Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney.
Drama
Nearest and Dearest
Feb 07, 1973Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 46 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome and 28 in colour. The series, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, was set in Colne, Lancashire, in the North West of England.
Comedy
Timeshift
Apr 20, 2017Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
Documentary
Minder
Mar 10, 1994This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
Comedy
All Creatures Great and Small
Nov 17, 1990Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon.
Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.
Comedy
I Didn't Know You Cared
Jun 26, 1979I Didn't Know You Cared is a British comedy series set in a working class household in South Yorkshire in the 1970s, written by Peter Tinniswood loosely based upon his books A Touch Of Daniel, I Didn't Know You Cared and Except You're A Bird. It was broadcast by the BBC in four series from 1975 to 1979.
The main characters are Carter Brandon; his Uncle Mort; his mother, Annie; his father, Les; his girlfriend, Pat Partington; and Uncle Staveley. Auntie Lil appears in the first two series. Other recurring characters, mostly from Carter's workplace, are Linda Preston; Mrs Partington; Sid Skelhorn
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