Sir John Mills' life told through his own colour home movies!
'Moving Memories' is a unique opportunity to experience the life of a film legend through his own 16mm home movies. Sir John started shooting in 1948 before home movie making became widely accessable. He shot on the then groundbreaking colour reversal film which means that many of his colour clips are behind the scenes on movies released in black and white, such as 'Ice Cold in Alex' and 'Dunkirk'. The cast list for these never before seen home movies is extraordinary. Sir John recorded personal moments with unforgettable stars.
Moving Memories features interviews with Sir John , Hayley, Juliet, Jonathan Mills, & Lord Attenborough. It features classic movie clips, plus never before seen personal home movie footage, and amazing behind the scenes shots. A truly unique film (60 minutes).
Following the discovery of 12000 feet of personal 16mm home movies in Sir John Mills' attic, Marcus Dillistone directed and edited 'Moving Memories', a 60 minute film which tells the extraordinary life and career of Sir John Mills, uniquely told through Sir John's own behind-the-scenes footage!
The 'cast' of these unique home movies reads like a cinema who's who: Rex Harrison, David Niven, Stewart Grainger, Jean Simmons , Dickie Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Ernest Borgnine and Angela Lansbury... to name but a few!

In a confused welter of artistic licence, this is the classical music biopic which makes 'Song to Remember'look like a masterpiece. Bogarde succeeds in diminishing the reputation of the musical colossus who spanned European music for most of the 19th Century. The absurdities of the plot, the sequoia-like quality of the acting and the prevalence of historical,musical and linguistic anachronisms combine to elevate this offering to the status of an A1 turkey.How a pianist of the stature of Bolet came to be mixed up in this fiasco can only be guessed at. The characterisation of Liszt fails to convey even a minute impression of his magnetic personality and the overwhelming effect that he had on not only his audiences, but also his pianistic rivals.Clara Schumann herself said that 'we toil over that which Liszt reads at sight!' Whilst the emphasis seems to focus on his romantic prowess,rather than his status as the greatest pianist of the century or,arguably, of all time, one feels,nevertheless, that this was an opportunity lost.

In this series, first shown between 5th September to 10th October 1993, director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, The Three Musketeers) surveys a remarkable decade in British filmmaking through archive clips and interviews with directors and stars.

The first part of a televisual life of the film actor who died in 1999, drawing on new video footage from the archive of Bogarde's long-term partner and manager Anthony Forwood.

Follow the antics of four of the funniest roommates who ever tried to get through English medical school. One's a womanizer, one's a rugby star, one's determined to flunk, and one just happens to be a good influence on the other three in this British production.

Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he's got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent. Just as well she's immediately attracted to 007's unwitting replacement.

In 1889, young Englishwoman Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson) arrive in Paris to see the Exposition Universelle. This is Vicky's first time in Paris, and after checking into a hotel, she drags her tired brother to dinner and the famous Moulin Rouge. She finally retires for the night, while Johnny has a late-night drink. When English painter George Hathaway (Dirk Bogarde) drops off his girlfriend, Rhoda O'Donovan (Honor Blackman), and her mother (Betty Warren) at the hotel, he asks Johnny for change for a 100 franc note to pay a carriage driver; Johnny loans him 50 francs and gives him his name and room number.
The next morning, Vicky finds a blank wall where Johnny's room used to be. When she questions hotel owner and manager Madame Hervé (Cathleen Nesbitt), the latter claims she arrived alone. The room number now adorns the common bathroom. Madame Hervé's brother Narcisse (Marcel Pontin) and the day porter (Eugene Deckers) back up her story.
Frantic, Vicky goes to see the British consul (Felix Aylmer), followed secretly by Narcisse. She has no proof of her brother's existence, so the consul can only suggest she find a witness, Nina (Zena Marshall), the hotel maid who attended her. Nina had informed her that she was going up in a balloon with her boyfriend at the Exposition that day, so the consul takes her there. Tragically, she is too late. Before she can talk to Nina, the balloon ascends, bursts into flames, and plummets to the ground, killing the two passengers.
Vicky tries the French police commissaire (Austin Trevor). He questions Madame Hervé and her brother, but can find nothing amiss in their story. Since her room has been reserved for only two nights, Vicky has to leave the hotel. Madame Hervé offers her a ticket home to England, which she is forced to accept, as she has little money left. However, unbeknownst to either party, Rhoda O'Donovan has been asked by George Hathaway to deliver a letter containing his loan repayment to Johnny. Not finding his room, Rhoda slips the envelope under Vicky's door, where she finds it.
Vicky goes to see George. When he confirms having met her brother, she bursts into tears. He offers his assistance. George notices there are six balconies, but only five rooms on the floor, and finds the missing hotel room, the entrance having been covered over to be part of the wall.
Under questioning by the police, Madame Hervé reveals where Johnny has been taken. It turns out that he became sick with the Black Plague during the night. The news would have been disastrous for the Exposition, so he was secretly taken away to a hospital. George brings along Doctor Hart (André Morell), who tells Vicky her brother has a chance of living.

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.

1967 film by Joseph Losey

The last time Britain was a major force in world cinema was in the 1960s; a documentary of a few years back on the subject was entitled 'Hollywood UK'. This was the era of the Kitchen Sink, social realism, angry young men; above all, the theatrical. And yet, ironically, the best British films of the decade were made by two Americans, Richard Lester and Joseph Losey, who largely stayed clear of the period's more typical subject matter, which, like all attempts at greater realism, now seems curiously archaic.
'King and Country', though, seems to be the Losey film that tries to belong to its era. Like 'Look Back in Anger' and 'A Taste of Honey', it is based on a play, and often seems cumbersomely theatrical. Like 'Loneliness of the long distance runner', its hero is an exploited, reluctantly transgressive working class lad played by Tom Courtenay. Like (the admittedly brilliant) 'Charge of the Light Brigade', it is a horrified, near-farcical (though humourless) look at the horrors of war, most particularly its gaping class injustices.
Private Hamp is a young volunteer soldier at Pachendaele, having served three years at the front, who is court-martialled for desertion. Increasingly terrorised by the inhuman pointlessness of trench warfare, the speedy, grisly, violent deaths of his comrades and the medieval, rat-infested conditions of his trench, he claims to have emerged dazed from one gruesome attack and decided to walk home, to England. He is defended by the archetypal British officer, Captain Hargreaves, who professes disdain for the man's cowardice, but must do his duty. He attempts to spin a defence on the grounds of madness, but the upper-crust officers have heard it all before.
This is a very nice, duly horrifying, liberal-handwringing, middle-class play. It panders to all the cliches of the Great War - the disgraceful working-class massacre, while the officers sup whiskey (Haig!) - figured in some charmingly obvious symbolism: Hargreaves throwing a dying cigarette in the mud; Hamp hysterically playing blind man's buff.
The sets are picturesquely grim, medieval, a modern inferno, as these men lie trapped in a never-ending, subterranean labyrinth, lit by hellish fires, with rats for company and the constant sound of shells and gunfire reminding them of the outside world.
The play, in a very middle-class way, is not really about the working class at all - Hamp is more of a symbol, an essence, lying in the dark, desolately playing his harmonica, a note of humanity in a score of inhumanity. He doesn't develop as a character. The play is really about Hargreaves, his realisation of the shabby inadequacy of notions like duty. He develops. This realisation sends him to drink (tastier than dying!). Like his prole subordinates, he falls in the mud, just as Hamp is said to have done; he even says to his superior 'We are all murderers'.
This is all very effective, if not much of a development of RC Sherriff's creaky 'Journey's End', filmed by James Whale in 1930. Its earnestness and verbosity may seem a little stilted in the age of 'Paths of Glory' and 'Dr. Strangelove'; we may feel that 'Blackadder goes forth' is a truer representation of the Great War. But what I have described is not the film Losey has made. He is too sophisticated and canny an intellectual for that.
The film opens with a lingering pan over one of those monumental War memorials you see all over Britain (and presumably Europe), as if to say Losey is going to question the received ideas of this statue, the human cost. But what he's really questioning is this play, and its woeful inadequacy to represent the manifold complexities of the War.
This is Brechtian filmmaking at its most subtle. We are constantly made aware of the artifice of the film, the theatrical - the stilted dialogue is spoken with deliberate stiffness; theatrical rituals are emphasised (the initial interrogation; the court scene, where actors literally tread the boards, enunciating the predictable speeches; the mirror-play put on by the hysterical soldiers and the rats; the religious ceremony; the horrible farce of the execution). Proscenium arches are made prominent, audiences observe events.
This is a play that would seek to contain, humanise, explain the Great War. This is a hopeless task, as Losey's provisional apparatus explains, 'real' photographs of harrowing detritus fading from the screen as if even these are not enough to convey the War, never mind a well-made, bourgeois play. Losey's vision may be apocalyptic - it questions the possibility of representation at all - the various tags of poetry quoted make no impact on hard men men who rattled them off when young; the Shakespearean duality of 'noble' drama commented on by 'low' comedy, effects no transcendence, no greater insight.
Losey's camerawork and composition repeatedly breaks our involvement with the drama, any wish we might have for manly sentimentality; in one remarkable scene an officer takes an Aubrey Beardsley book from the cameraman! This idea of the theatrical evidently mirrors the rigid class 'roles' played by the main characters (Hamp's father and grandfather were cobblers too; presumably Hargreaves' were always Sandhurst cadets). Losey also takes a sideswipe at the kitchen sink project, by using its tools - history has borne him out.

"A must-see for Dirk Bogarde fans, and highly recommended to anyone who wants to hear an intelligent actor speak at length. This two-part British TV documentary by Paul Joyce features a fascinating discussion by Bogarde about his craft, with particularly interesting bits about Visconti’s blocking of his mise-en-scene to music by Mahler in Death in Venice; how Fassbinder allegedly destroyed Despair in the cutting room; the controversial early handling of a gay theme in Victim; experiences with Judy Garland and Joseph Losey; the Hollywood blacklist; and work with Bertrand Tavernier on Daddy Nostalgia, Bogarde’s farewell film."
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When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father , Charlie, reappears...

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.

1969 film by Luchino Visconti

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
- Written by Guy Bellinger （From IMDb）

故明君贤将，所以动以胜人，成功出于众者，先知也
——《孙子兵法》公元前五世纪
所谓先知，在现代社会里，也指从事特务活动的间谍。
巴黎奥利机场十分繁忙，前往莫斯科的302航次立即就要起飞，就在这时，苏联驻法国二等参赞弗拉索夫上校突然冲进机场警务室请求政治避难。苏联大使馆一等秘书闻讯赶来劝阻弗拉索夫；弗拉索夫太太也来劝丈夫回国，弗拉索夫断然拒绝。弗拉索夫很快被送到法国情报局，法国情报局想从弗拉索夫嘴里掏点情报，可他什么也不说，只要求赶快送他去美国大使馆。法国情报局局长贝尔东随后又接到报告，知道弗拉索夫在机场曾化了一百法郎请女售货员给美国大使馆打了电话，内容是；弗拉索夫要求在美国避难。为了争取时间，法国情报部决定用汽车把弗拉索夫送回苏联大使馆，以此来威胁他提供情况。这个方法确实有效，当汽车离苏联大使馆不远，弗拉索夫正要松口时，贝尔东突然来电话命令他们立即返回。因为美国大使馆已向法国外交部施加压力，必须马上交出弗拉索夫上校。没多久，美国驻法大使奥布赖恩亲自接回弗拉索夫，并于第二天清晨，偷偷地把他送往美国华盛顿中央情报局。
美国中央情报局局长戴维斯很重视弗拉索夫的到来。但从档案室储有的弗拉索夫的详细材料来看，对于他的叛逃很难置信。弗拉索夫被放到测谎器面前反复进行心理测验，戴维斯还亲自审讯。最后，中央情报局对弗拉索夫作了认真的分析，认为弗拉索夫叛逃来美国的真正原因是；正当弗拉索夫青云直上时，赫鲁晓夫倒台了，他也从青云里掉下来，只派到巴黎当个二等参赞，他的生活又很放荡，这次被召回国，等待他的前途将更不妙。这个分析很有说服力。这时，正在这里的英国情报部二号人物菲利普•贝尔又向戴维斯作了推荐，就这样弗拉索夫被送进了优待室。从此，弗拉索夫开始为中央情报局效劳，并向戴维斯提供了北约组织最高机构里他所知道的一大批投K苏联的官员名单。
几天后当戴维斯来到慕尼黑了解北约内部组织人员时，德国武装部队司令冯•施特赖里茨突然在他乡村别墅树林里"自杀"了。接着是政府高级官员霍斯特•弗尔森在湖里钓鱼时被人杀害。德国一下子死了十三名高级官员。西德刚开完追悼会，法国反间谍机构内部又引起了一场轩然大波。因为据弗拉索夫供称法国情报局局长贝尔东和法国国防部高级官员德瓦尔也在为苏联工作。贝尔东立即被停职，德瓦尔受到审讯。德瓦尔在受审时竟然听到了贝尔东的罪证:他和苏联人进行私下交易的录音带。
欧洲所发生的一切使戴维斯有所警觉，为了试探他自己掌握的机密是否准确，当他来到英国伦敦见到贝尔时，他对贝尔说；别认为这儿干净，你这儿也臭气熏天，外交部的莱恩和伯格......。这个消息使贝尔感到意外。没过多久，英国外交部里两名高级官员就投奔苏联去了。英国有消息传来，莱恩和伯格的逃跑和法国"贝尔东"事件有牵连。
贝尔东已遭到法国情报部的监视。这天贝尔东回到住处，他习惯地打开一本书，这本书原来是架自动录音机。录音机清晰地告诉他屋子里曾有人来过，已安装了窃听器。突然这时来了一个电话。他不敢在屋内打电话，借用邻居的电话和打电话来的人约定了接头地点。他巧妙地摆脱了法国情报部的跟踪来到会见的地点，约他见面的竟是贝尔。贝尔原来是为苏联工作三十年的老牌间谍，自从戴维斯透露了莱恩和伯格的消息后，把弗拉索夫和贝尔合谋的计划彻底打乱了，贝尔给贝尔东准备了一张去莫斯科的护照，是企图把莱恩和伯格逃跑的事件归罪于贝尔东。贝尔东看透了贝尔的花招，开车离去。贝尔用一种化学液体封闭贝尔东的车窗玻璃，企图造成贝尔东翻车死亡。贝尔东翻车受了伤，这使贝尔继续潜伏的计划失败，他慌忙地溜到苏联去了。
真相终于大白。苏联克格勃分子弗拉索夫和贝尔策划了有史以来最可怕的一次规模最大的破坏活动。德国十三名高级官员全是由贝尔暗中杀害的，法国的贝尔东和德瓦尔是无辜的。戴维斯在中央情报局揭穿了弗拉索夫的一切谎言，贝尔东和苏联私下交易的录音带是伪造的，当年贝尔和弗拉索夫在土耳其合影的照片也是在苏联境内合成拍摄的。戴维斯也遭到两条化成"蛇"的克格勃所欺骗，弗拉索夫被捕了。
半年后在东西德交界处，弗拉索夫被押来，与苏方交换俘虏。业已离任的贝尔东和戴维斯也都来到现场，贝尔东问戴维斯，弗拉索夫回国后能当上克格勃头子吗?戴维斯深知克格勃的内幕，他说:弗拉索夫这条"蛇"的前景不妙，因为他已尝过西方天堂的滋味，不会得到克格勃的信任，不久就会消失掉的。
【简　　评】
这是一部由法国拉博埃蒂影片公司拍摄于1973年的反映前苏联克格勃活动的间谍影片，根据小说《第13个自杀者》改编。《蛇》希图突破旧间谍片的框框，但痕迹尚存。摄影上有独特的处理。
这是一个虚构与真实事件兼而有之的影片。作者力图突破旧间谍片局限在两国的框框，而扩大为国际性的间谍战；另方面，也竭力避免旧间谍片大多以枪战、格斗、恐怖为主要情节的俗套，而着力表现间谍与反间谍人员之间的智斗。
《蛇》汇集了欧美各国的电影演员，如尤伯•连纳、亨利•方达、德克•博加德、菲立普•努瓦雷等。其中，法国演员菲利浦•努瓦雷在另一部影片《老枪》中担任男主角。演迪比斯的是美国演员亨利•方达，他于一九二九年起开始电影生涯，至一九七八年已演拍上百部影片，表演以深沉蕴藉见长。演鲍依尔的狄克•鲍迦，一九三六年毕业于英国皇家戏剧学院舞台艺术系，一九四八年后从事电影演出。扮演贝尔顿的菲利浦•诺阿莱，是目前法国最受欢迎的演员。他于一九五六年开始从事电影工作，另一部法国片《老枪》也是由他主演的。至于演弗拉索夫的尤尔•伯连纳，原籍苏联，一九三九年加入美国籍。一九五六年，他曾以主演歌舞片《国王与我》而获得奥斯卡最佳男主角奖。

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.

The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted Joseph Losey, whose first British film this was. Alexander Knox stars as psychiatrist Clive Esmond, who believes that he can stem the criminal tendencies of young fugitive from justice Frank Clements (Dirk Bogarde). To this end, Esmond hides Clements in his own home. At first hostile towards the handsome crook, Esmond's wife Glenda (Alexis Smith) gradually warms up to her house guest, and before long she and Clements are casting lustful glances at one another. She intends to run off with Clements and make a new life for herself, when suddenly he decides that he actually wants to reform. If nothing else, The Sleeping Tiger is a fascinating precursor to the sexual tensions prevalent in Losey's later Harold Pinter adaptations. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi