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  1. Trial, The (1962) (1962 Video)

    aka: ProcÈs, Le

    Director
    Orson Welles
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £12.99

    Adaptation by Orson Welles of Franz Kafka’s existentialist novel in which an ordinary man awakes one day to find a police inspector at the foot of his bed. Oblivious to his crime he is dragged into his own...

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  2. Look Back in Anger (1958)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    An angry young man fights against life and his wife in this 1958 film adaptation by Nigel Kneale of the celebrated anti-establishment drama by John Osborne. Directed by Tony Richardson and starring Richard...

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  3. Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

    Director
    Peter Brook
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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  4. Secret People (1952)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    Crime drama set in the 1930s and starring Valentina Cortese and a young Audrey Hepburn. Maria and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their political activist father is murdered by a European...

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  5. Whisky Galore! (1949)

    Director
    Alexander Mackendrick
    Subject
    English language and literature; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 83 minutes), £12.99

    When a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky runs aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation to replenish their depleted supplies. Only an English Home Guard captain stands in...

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  6. Winslow Boy, The (1948)

    Director
    Anthony Asquith
    Producer
    Teddy Baird; Anatole de Grunwald
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Law
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £15.99

    A courtroom drama adapted from Terence Rattigan’s play ‘The Winslow Boy’, based on a true story. Follows a father’s struggle in the face of bankruptcy and personal ruin for justice for his son, a...

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  7. Queen of Spades, The (1948)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

    This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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  8. Went the Day Well? (1942)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    English language and literature; Film studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

    Feature film from a story by Graham Greene. The village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops dsguised as British soldiers as part of Hitler’s plan for the invasion of Britain. Music by William...

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  9. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

    Director
    Alex Gibney
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £17.99

    In GONZO - THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON, director Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE) creates a portrait of one of journalism’s most controversial and talented superstars. Famous in the...

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  10. Big Knife, The

    Director
    Robert Aldrich
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £15.99

    THE BIG KNIFE, adapted from Clifford Odets’s gripping play, is a dark, cynical probing of the film industry’s behemoth studio system. When matinee idol Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) refuses to renew his...

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