There was certain inevitability that Sydney Tafler would be found playing the title role in Wide Boy (d. Ken Hughes, 1952). In British films of the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, Tafler was most likely to ...

How a few graphic horror films led to the introduction of video censorship Many of these videos were identical to the cinema versions approved (often after cuts) by the British Board of Film Censors, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife... Their cuts produce a faster-paced story, intended to engage contemporary ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

Low, Rachael, The History of the British Film, 1918-1929 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971) Low, Rachael, The History of the British Film, 1929-1939 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985) ...

Featuring: Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, George Lansbury, David Low, George Bernard Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, J.B. Priestley and many others. The most ambitious film yet attempted by the ...

When a London crime syndicate loses its spoils to three Australian crooks impersonating police officers, its members decide to co-operate with the police in an attempt to catch the frauds. The set-up ...

A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

A young boy dreams that his snowman comes to life.

Even though he saw himself as insecure, fearful of unemployment, shaking when handling props, forgetting his lines, and even refusing to watch his own screen performances, Gordon Jackson, with his ...

In 1935, the notion that film should be considered an art form, something to be preserved in the same way books and paintings are, was still quite revolutionary. The BFI National Archive was one of ...