Wherever you see an (*) scroll down to the bottom of the screen for a plot synopsis... EVENSONG (1934) (Extra WWI soldier) Author: Edward Knoblock, Dorothy Farnum Director: Victor Saville GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) (Herbert Pocket) Author: David Lean, Ronald Neame Director: David Lean OLIVER TWIST (1948) (Fagin) Author: David Lean Director: David Lean KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949) (All 8 members, both male and female, of the D’Ascoyne family) Author: Robert Hamer, John Dighton Director: Robert Hamer A RUN FOR YOUR MONEY (1949) (Whimple) Author: Richard Hughes Director: Charles Frend LAST HOLIDAY (1950) (George Bird) Author: J.B. Priestley Director: Henry Cass THE MUDLARK (1950) (Benjamin Disraeli) Author: Nunnally Johnson Director: Jean Negulesco THE LAVENDER HILL MOB* (1951) (Henry Holland) Author: T.E.B. Clarke Director: Charles Crichton THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT* (1951) (Sidney Stratton) Author: John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick, Roger MacDougall Director: Alexander Mackendrick THE CARD (1952) (Edward Henry ‘Denry’ Machin) Author: Eric Ambler Director: Ronald Neame THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE (1952) (Captain Henry St. James) Author: Alec Coppel, Nicholas Phipps Director: Anthony Kimmins THE MALTA STORY (1953) (Flight Lt. Peter Ross) Author: William Fairchild. Nigel Balchin Director: Brian Desmond Hurst FATHER BROWN (1954) (Father Brown) Author: Thelma Schnee, Robert Hamer Director: Robert Hamer THE PRISONER (1955) (The Cardinal) Author : Bridget Boland Director: peter Glenville THE LADYKILLERS (1955) (Professor Marcus) Author: William Rose Director: Alexander Mackendrick TO PARIS, WITH LOVE (1955) (Sir Edgar Fraser) Author: Robert Buckner Director: Robert Hamer THE SWAN (1956) (Prince Albert) Author: John Dighton Director: Charles Vidor THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI(1957) (Colonel Nicholson) Author: Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman Director: David Lean ALL AT SEA (1957) (William Horatio Ambrose & Ancestors) Author: T.E.B. Clarke Director: Charles Frend THE HORSE'S MOTUH (1958) (Gulley Jimson) Author: Alec Guinness Director: Ronald Neame THE SCAPEGOAT (1959) (John Barratt/Jacques De Gue) Author: Daphne Du Maurier, Gore Vidal, Robert Hamer Director: Robert Hamer OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1960) (Jim Wormold) Author: Graham Greene Director: Carol reed TUNES OF GLORY (1960) (Major Jock Sinclair) Author: James Kennaway Director: Ronald Neame A MAJORITY OF ONE (1961) (Koichi Asano) Author: Leonard Spigelgass Director: Mervyn LeRoy DAMN THE DEFIANT!/H.M.S. DEFIANT(1962) (Captain Crawford) Author: Nigel Kneale, Edmund H. North Director: Lewis Gilbert LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) (Prince Feisal) Author: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson Director: David Lean THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE(1964) (Marcus Aurelius) Author: Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina, Philip Yordan Director: Anthony Mann DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) (General Yevgraf Zhivago) Author: Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt Director: David Lean SITUATION HOPELESS, BUT NOT SERIOUS (1965) (Wilhelm Frick) Author: Jan Lustig, Silvia Reinhardt, Robert Shaw Director: Gottfried Reinhardt HOTEL PARADISO (1966) (Benedict Boniface) Author: Jean-Claude Carričre, Maurice Desvalličres, Georges Feydeau, Peter Glenville Director: Peter Glenville THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM (1966) (Pol) Author: Harold Pinter, Adam Hall Director: Michael Anderson THE COMEDIANS (1967) (Major Jones) Author: Graham Greene Director: Peter Glenville CROMWELL (1970) (Charles I) Author: Ken Hughes Director: Ken Hughes SCROOGE (1970) (The Ghost of Jacob Marley) Author: Leslie Bricusse Director: Ronald Neame BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON (1973) (Pope Innocent III) Author: Franco Zeffirelli, Lina Wertmuller, Kenneth Ross Director: Fraco Zeffirelli HITLER: THE LAST TEN DAYS (1973)(Adolf Hitler) Author: Ennio De Concini, Maria Fusco, Ivan Moffat Director: Enni De Concini MURDER BY DEATH (1976) (Jamesir Bensonmum) Author: Neil Simon Director: Robert Moore STAR WARS(1977) (Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi) Author: George Lucas Director: George Lucas THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) (Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi) Author: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan Director: Irvin Kershner LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (1980) (Earl of Dorincourt) Author: Blanche Hanalis Director: Jack Gold RAISE THE TITANIC (1980) (John Bigalow) Author: Adam Kennedy Direcotr: Jerry Jameson LOVESICK (1983) (Sigmund Freud) Author: Marshall Brickman Director: Marshall Brickman RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) (Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi) Author: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas Director: Richard Marquand A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984) (Professor Godbole) Author: David Lean Director: David Lean LITTLE DORRIT (1988) (William Dorrit) Author: Christine Ezzard Director: Christine Ezzard A HANDFUL OF DUST (1988) (Mr. Todd) Author: Tim Sulivan, Derek Granger, Charles Sturridge Director: Charles Sturridge KAFKA (1991) (The Chief Clerk) Author: Lem Dobbs Director: Steven Soderbergh MUTE WITNESS (1994) (The Reaper aka Stumme Zeugin) Author: Anthony Waller Director: Anthony Waller ___________________________________ THE LAVENDER HILL MOB* (1951) "By jove Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men." "It is indeed Pendlebury." Bespectacled, timid, Henry Holland (Guinness) has worked faithfully for the Bank of England for 20 years. During that time his job has been to supervise the transportation of gold bullion from the refinery to the bank vaults. Ridiculed for his punctiliousness by his work colleagues and consistently passed over for promotion by his bosses, Holland remains unperturbed. For secretly he is harbouring ideas of his own – throughout his 20 years of loyal and dedicated service to the bank Holland has been planning to rob the bank of its bullion. However, for 19 of those years fate has continued to deny him, “the one contact essential to the success of all my plans.” But that may soon be about to change… Enter one Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) – a Shakespeare-quoting, would-be artist by night, and a designer and manufacturer of tacky holiday souvenirs by day. When Pendlebury moves into the same private boarding house as Mr. Holland the two quickly become friends, and it is whilst on a visit to Pendlebury’s souvenir factory to observe the casting process, that Holland realises that here, at last, is his chance. Gold bullion, as he tells Pendlebury, is useless unless one has a method of smuggling it abroad – say in the form of Eiffel Tower paperweights (a factory speciality)… Thus begins the two men’s plans to pull off the most audacious robbery England has ever seen. Aware that they cannot do it alone they acquire the help of 2 seasoned criminals – Lackery Wood (Sidney James) and Shorty Fisher (Alfie Bass). Having managed to pull-off the robbery (albeit with one or two minor hitches) they set about melting down the bullion and transforming it into Eiffel Tower paperweights prior to shipping them over to France. Once there, Holland and Pendlebury discover, to their horror, that six of the towers have been sold mistakenly to a group of English schoolgirls – there then ensues a lengthy comic chase from Paris back to England in order to retrieve the towers – an endeavour that proves almost successful, with only one of the schoolgirls refusing to cooperate. Desperate to get the one remaining, incriminating tower back, Holland and Pendlebury follow her from school straight into a local Police Exhibition, where one of the many demonstrations taking place are examples of techniques used in the investigation of the recent bullion robbery. In their desperation not to be revealed as the culprits Pendlebury grabs the offending tower, which the schoolgirl had bought as a present for a policeman friend, and the two make a run for it, stealing a police car and sending false messages over the radio in order to confuse matters. After a high-speed chase through the city streets, their car (and Pendlebury) are finally cornered, but Holland manages to escape - all the way to Rio de Janeiro, which is where we meet him when the film begins. But just exactly who is the gentleman Holland has been telling his amazing story to? THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT* (1951) In one of the most satirical Ealing comedies, Guinness stars as Sidney Stratton, an unworldly research chemist given to wild excitements and periodic maniacal outbursts. Whilst working as a labourer in a series of Northern textile mills, Stratton secretly works on a formula he’s long been developing – to create a fibre that never gets dirty and never wears out. After a series of explosive (literally) failures, Stratton finally succeeds, only to find that both mill owners and workers alike wish to suppress its production, fearing that it will put them all out of business. Unwilling to bend to the pressure put upon him to relinquish control of his formula, Sidney finds himself a wanted man, hunted and pursued through the streets of the local town. When eventually cornered, Stratton tries to fight his way through the gathering throng, only to discover that his fabric is not quite as indestructible as first thought… MORE SYNOPSES WILL BE ADDED AT A LATER DATE...