Patricia Healey

A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.

Grande-Bretagne, Dorset, 1834. George Loveless et ses amis, laboureurs à Tolpuddle, sont de plus en plus exploités par les propriétaires terriens, avec la complicité du clergé. Ils s’organisent pour revendiquer des hausses de salaires, et créent en secret la Société Amicale des Laboureurs. Dénoncés par un propriétaire, six d’entre eux sont condamnés à la déportation en Australie. Devenus très populaires et hérauts d’une classe de plus en plus pauvre, ils deviennent les « martyrs de Tolpuddle ».

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

Durant son voyage, Travis apprend qu'il lui faut renoncer à ses principes afin de réussir mais qu'à la différence des autres personnages qu'il croise, il doit conserver un certain détachement pour mettre de la distance entre lui et les maux du monde : c'est pour cela que ce film est souvent considéré comme une réécriture du Candide de Voltaire. Dans le film, Travis devient successivement vendeur de café (il travaille pour Imperial Coffee dans le Nord-Est de l'Angleterre et l'Écosse), victime de torture dans un établissement gouvernemental et cobaye pour la recherche médicale sous la supervision du Dr Millar.

Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.

Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.