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7.1

♡ 11

John Boulting Director

Dennis Price as Bertram Tracepurcel

Aileen Lewis as Reporter at Kite Residence

Sam Kydd as Shop Steward

John Le Mesurier as Waters

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

The Quatermass Xperiment

6.6

♡ 13

91%

Val Guest Director

Gordon Jackson as BBC TV producer

John Kerr as Film Lab Technician

George Roderick as Local Policeman

Sam Kydd as Police sergeant questioning Rosie

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

The Captive Heart

1946

7.0

♡ 11

72%

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.

Gordon Jackson as Lieut. Lennox

Basil Radford as Major Ossy Dalrymple

Sam Kydd as POW in Top Bunk

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.

The Blue Lamp

1950

6.8

♡ 7

83%

Basil Dearden Director

Sam Kydd as Bookmakers Assistant at White City

Arnold Bell as Hospital Doctor

Jennifer Jayne as June

Meredith Edwards as PC 'Taff' Hughes

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

The Cockleshell Heroes

6.5

♡ 6

44%

José Ferrer Director

Trevor Howard as Captain Hugh Thompson

Christopher Lee as Commander Dick Raikes - Submarine Commander

Anthony Newley as Marine Clarke

Sam Kydd as Truck Driver

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

Secret People

1952

6.2

♡ 6

33%

Thorold Dickinson Director

Ian Bannen as Gendarme at British Pavilion

Sam Kydd as Irish Police Sergeant

John Gabriel as Member of Paris Committee

Hilary Mason as Nurse

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Seven Days to Noon

1950

7.0

♡ 7

100%

John Boulting Director

Geoffrey Keen as Alf

Geoffrey Matthews as Bit Part

Colin Douglas as Soldier in house search

Sam Kydd as Soldier in House Search

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.

Alf 'n' Family

1968

6.2

♡ 6

47%

Norman Cohen Director

Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett

Sam Kydd as Fred

Anthony Booth as Mike Rawlins

Una Stubbs as Rita Garnett

Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during the Blitz.

Spin a Dark Web

1956

6.0

♡ 3

Vernon Sewell Director

Rona Anderson as Betty Walker

Peter Hammond as Bill Walker

Bernard Fox as McLeod

Sam Kydd as Sam

A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).

The Risk

1960

6.2

♡ 3

based on novel or book

John Boulting Director

Ian Bannen as Alan Andrews

Anthony Booth as Parkin

Bruce Wightman as Phil the Barman

Sam Kydd as Slater

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

It's Never Too Late

1956

6.0

♡ 1

Comedy

housewife

Michael McCarthy Director

Patrick Barr as Charles Hammond

Alan Bates as King Lear

Delphi Lawrence as Mrs. Madge Dixon

Sam Kydd as (uncredited)

To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist and when her screenplay comes to the attention of a Hollywood producer, Laura is suddenly plunged into the big time.

The Killing of Sister George

1968

older woman younger woman relationship

7.0

♡ 8

59%

Robert Aldrich Director

Susannah York as Alice 'Childie' McNaught

Madeline Smith as Nun

Sam Kydd as Taxi Driver

Cyril Delevanti as Ted Baker

When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

A Town Like Alice

1956

7.2

♡ 6

77%

australia

based on novel or book

Jack Lee Director

Sam Kydd as Australian Driver

Peter Finch as Joe Harman

Jean Anderson as Miss Horsefall

Geoffrey Keen as Solicitor

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

The Rainbow Jacket

1954

6.4

♡ 2

95%

Basil Dearden Director

Sam Kydd as Bruce

Honor Blackman as Monica

George Roderick as Racegoer at Epsom

Howard Marion-Crawford as Travers

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

A Kid for Two Farthings

6.4

♡ 7

67%

Carol Reed Director

Alfie Bass as Alf the Bird Man

Bruce Beeby as Policeman

Diana Dors as Sonia

Sam Kydd as (uncredited)

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

Smashing Time

1967

5.9

♡ 2

88%

Desmond Davis Director

Aileen Lewis as Art Gallery Patron

Howard Marion-Crawford as Hall Porter

John Clive as Sweeney Todd Manager

Sam Kydd as Workman in Cafe

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

There Was a Crooked Man

1960

6.6

♡ 3

Comedy

Stuart Burge Director

Alfred Marks as Adolf Carter

Susannah York as Ellen

Sam Kydd as Foreman

Leonard Sachs as Police Inspector

When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.

The Warriors