Manville Tarrant

Classique drame britannique sur les résidents d'une grande maison terrasse à Londres entre Noël 1938 et Septembre 1939. Parmi eux sont jeunes motoriste Boon Percy (Richard Attenborough) et sa mère (Gladys Henson); la maîtresse de maison, Mme Vizzard (Joyce Carey), qui est veuve et un croyant dans spiritisme; Mme Josser (Fay Compton), M. Josser (Wylie Watson) et leur fille adolescente (Susan Shaw); le moyen spiritualiste excentrique M. squales (Alastair Sim), et Connie Coke coloré (Ivy St Helier). Percy est en amour avec la fille du Josser, Doris (Susan Shaw), et se contrecœur vers le crime pour amasser des fonds pour l'impressionner avec. Mais les choses tournent mal. Boon Percy (Richard Attenborough) vit avec sa mère dans une maison louée partagée avec un assortiment de personnages dans le centre de Londres. Bien que bien intentionné, Percy se mélange avec des gangsters et assassiner. L'histoire se concentre sur les effets que cela a sur Percy et les autres résidents.

In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides to get revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. First he hires a man to kill him and frame the traitor. Later the fellow learns that he is not sick after all. Fortunately his hit man died. Later the man he wants to avenge has a final showdown with him. A struggle ensues and the fellow kills his enemy in self-defense.

In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.