Three young children live on a remote farm in the North of England; their mother is dead and their father is too busy to look after them. Kathy (Hayley Mills) is the eldest Nan (Diane Holgate) is the quiet child of the family while six year old Charles (Alan Barnes) is the most outspoken. The children wage constant guerrilla warfare against farmhand Eddie and the traps he sets for wild animals. They rescue three kittens that Eddie believes he has drowned. Charles tries to give
A key film of the British New Wave 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy the gritty realism of its setting and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench his Saturday evenings in the local pubs and his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts) wife of a fellow factory worker. Played by Albert Finney with an irresistable animal vitality Arthur is anti-authority (Don't let the bastards grind you down) and unashamedly amoral (What I'm out for is a good time. All the rest is propoganda). With powerful central performances cracking dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankworth 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' still stands as a vibrant modern classic.
Doctor Helder (Briant) is sent to an asylum for experimenting on cadavers. There he is rescued by Doctor Carl Victor (Cushing) the original Doctor Frankenstein now living under a new identity who learns that a new monster is set to walk the earth...
Percival Glyde is murdered in his sleep with a wooden spike that is hammered into his skull. His killer (Tod Slaughter) steals his identity and moves into Glyde's London mansion. The family lawyer who has not seen the real Percival since he was a boy informs the madman of Glyde's arranged marriage to the beautiful heiress Laurie Fairlie. Greed and perversion drive this lunatic to the brutal killing of anyone who attempts to unravel his secret identity...
3 Classic Mills FilmsTIGER BAYPolish actor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz - The Magnificent Seven) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (BAFTA-nominated Mills) who steals the gun. Investigating officer Graham (John Mills) is in pursuit when Korchinsky abducts Gillie.WHISTLE DOWN THE WINDHayley Mills (Bell's daughter and a recipient of one of the film's four BAFTA nominations) Diane Holgate and Alan Barnes live on their widowed father's farm in the north of England.Their lives are disrupted when they discover a wanted man (Alan Bates) hiding out in their father's barn. After a confrontation and misunderstanding they come to the conclusion he is Jesus Christ.SIR JOHN MILLS' LOVING MEMORIESDiscovered years later in an attic clear out and seen here for the first time this extraordinary footage which spans 25 years has a cast list which reads like a who's who of British cinema. Never before has there been such an intimate behind the scenes look at the life of an actor who without doubt is considered to be a legend in his own lifetime.
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