Ray Smith

'I'm an expert on pigs now. How many people can claim they've castrated 1.000 baby pigs? Not many.' Brian is enthusiastic about his new job, but...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife....

Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to...

When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After...

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies...

A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie...

Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title...

Stella escapes an unhappy relationship to live in a bedsit. She meets another man which forces her to make decisions about her life.

This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people – a local priest and a folk...

The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious...

A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as...

An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party...

An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated...

Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers...

At 17 years of age, Leslie Hartop's parents decide the time has come for her to move out and make her way in the world. She moves in with the...

Scientists who worked for the allies on the development of the atom bomb in World War II are revealed to be Russian agents.