Geoffrey Sumner

Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald...

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling...

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

A brief review of the 1955 Farnborough Air Show.

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they...

A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East...

The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the...

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is...

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention....

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a...

A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he...

“Vibrant, progressive animation contrasts with some outdated attitudes in this Electricity Council cartoon on energy usage” - BFI.

A portrait of the beautiful game of association football as Britain emerged from WWII.

A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.

A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.

A boy detective, with Colonel Audacious and his wonderful invention, in a model aeroplane, the 'flying-eye', foil the efforts of international...

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in...

Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was...

Following the Scottish fishing boat Glenstruan on a voyage out of Aberdeen.

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the...

A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and...

Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of...

A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.

Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself...

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.

In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience...

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the...

Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British...

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on...

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands...

A BAFTA Special award nominated animated documentary that's based on the animated look at the annual report of ICI as shown in "Balance 1950" from...