Former sea captain William Targett returns to his native Dorset village. He brings with him his black wife, Tulip, a princess from Dahomey, Africa. Bigotry and ignorance among the villagers leads to ...

Best remembered for her role as long-suffering Wendy McKim in Genevieve (d. Henry Cornelius, 1953) - the quintessential English rose who takes second place in her husband's affections to his vintage ...

Sex comedies, sitcom spin-offs... and the rise of a truly independent cinema Besides the sex comedy, the other genre indelibly associated with 1970s British cinema was the television spin-off, based ...

The Bermondsey-born son of a fishporter and charwoman, Maurice Micklewhite began in poverty and went on to become one of the most prolific and durable of film stars. After Korean War service, he ...

Shaun Terence Young's long career in British cinema encompassed a variety of genres and international co-productions, but he is best remembered as the director of three of the first four James Bond ...

To look separately at the role of women in the fields of film, video and television in Britain is to recognise that the experiences of women in these areas are somehow different to those of men. The ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

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A disparate group of campers band together to rid themselves of hippies planning an all-night rave next to their site. The dramatic contrast between the enclosed, static and make-believe logic of ...

Tall, gangly, with protruding teeth framing a cheerfully gormless grin, Cardew Robinson is best remembered today for his enduring schoolboy comedy persona, 'Cardew the Cad of the School'. Developed in ...

Associated Rediffusion for ITV, tx. (London) 16/9/1959-12/6/1967 236 x 60 min episodes in 10 series, black & white ...