Bond is sent on an assignment to kill Scaramanga, a professional assassin who kills with a golden gun. The latter has also stolen a device for using the sun's energy. The plot, in which Bond attempts ...

Though he had been, in his own words (2000), "a moderately successful actor for 25 years", it was being part of that ensemble in The Full Monty (UK/US, d. Peter Cattaneo, 1997), that made Tom ...

Featuring: Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, George Lansbury, David Low, George Bernard Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, J.B. Priestley and many others. The most ambitious film yet attempted by the ...

The screen's loss was politics' gain when dominant actress Glenda Jackson successfully stood as Labour MP for Hampstead in 1992, and has not filmed since, giving herself whole-heartedly to her ...

1668. A Cockney stage actress (a former orange seller) and a French born Duchess are mistresses and rivals for the affections of King Charles II and for the hearts of the British people.

Owners of movie theatres in Britain were initially opposed to advertising-supported television, which they believed would reduce already falling cinema audiences (which had declined from 1,635 million ...

The humanitarian poet of the British documentary movement, Basil Charles Wright was born into a wealthy liberal family in Sutton, Surrey, on 12 June 1907. After attending Sherborne School he studied ...

Though he had been, in his own words (2000), "a moderately successful actor for 25 years", it was being part of that ensemble in The Full Monty (UK/US, d. Peter Cattaneo, 1997), that made Tom ...

A complex treatise exploring feminism, motherhood and sexual difference in seven numbered chapters. Headings are: Opening Pages; Laura Talking; Stones; Louise's Story Told in 13 Shots; Acrobats; Laura ...

The stories of various British and American pilots stationed at an RAF airbase in the Midlands during the Second World War.

In two brief periods of filmmaking activity, 1898-1900 and 1913-1915, Bamforth and Company, of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, was responsible for producing a modest but historically significant collection ...