The Film Programme

This “hard-boiled thriller with a slightly runny yolk” stars Emlyn Williams and Ernest Thesiger and is Mark’s forgotten gem from the 30s

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BFI library

Edward Dmytryk's ingenious thriller about a doctor who tries to dispose of his wife's lover is Mark's pick of the 1940s.

Obsession is available on DVD, cert PG

Gainsborough's Hitchcockian thriller about a missing person and a missing room is Mark's pick of the 1950s.
So Long At The Fair is available on DVD in Spain.

IMDB: So Long At The Fair

William Hartnell's last film role before he became Dr Who gets Mark's vote for the 1960s. Also stars Sylvia Syms and Donald Sutherland as a door-man.

The World Ten Times Over is not available on DVD, but can be seen for free at the BFI mediatheques in London and Derby.

BFI Mediatheques

Happiest Days of Your Life
Happy Is The Bride
Hatter’s Castle
Hindle Wakes (1927)
His and Hers
Hobson’s Choice
Holiday Camp:
So good to see so many of my favourites in your listeners' selection of old British films. One not listed is "Holiday Camp" (from the Huggetts series) - old classic actors incl. Jack Warner & Flora Robson portraying British post-war life, with some interesting documentary footage. P Quinn
Home At Seven (1952)
House of Mystery

It's Great To Be Young
I want to Live
I'll Never Forget
Images (1972)
In the Doghouse

Jigsaw

Kill or Cure
Kind Hearts and Coronets
King Rat

Laughing Lady (1946)
Life for Ruth
L-shaped Room
The Long Memory
Love on Wheels

Mad About Men
Man Within (1947)
Mandy
Mine Own Executioner
Miranda
Mr Denning Drives North
Modesty Blaise
Moonfleet
My Brother’s Keeper

Night Must Fall - directed by Karel Reisz in 1964. His follow-up to Saturday Night and Sunday Morning could not be more different, a rather bonkers psycho thriller, but fascinating nonetheless. Fintan McDonagh
No, My Darling Daughter
No Love For Johnnie
Nothing But the Best
1919 (1985 version)
Nurse on Wheels

Odd Man Out - James Mason as wounded IRA man trying to evade the law as he stumbles round eerie and atmospheric post-war Belfast - absolutely wonderful! Caroline Devlin
One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – The 1970 film of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book, Filmed in Sweden with an international cast, all the acting is wonderfully underplayed which heightens the horror of life in one of Stalin's Siberian work camps. Malcolm Heyes
Otley
Our Mother's House
Outcast of the Islands

Paranoiac – A psychological horror from Hammer that terrified me when I saw it at an impressionable age. I'd love to see how it holds up now. Fintan McDonagh
Pastor Hall (1940)

Rebecca
The Reckoning
Rome Express
Rotten to the Core

San Demitrio, London
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Scott of the Antarctic
Sea of Sand
Sebastian
Seven Days to Noon
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
St Trinian’s
Steaming - Diana Dors' last film and a film in colour. Ian Massey
Symptoms

Take My Life (1947)
Taste of Honey
That's Your Funeral
The Aldwych Farces
The Big Money
The Boy and the Bridge - I have only seen it once and that was in 1959. The wonderful photography of the Thames river bank around Tower Bridge quayside, full of boats and cranes. If it would be possible to see just one film from the 50s this would be the one. Peter Hartley
The Brain
The Bridal Path
The Browning Version
The Clouded Yellow
The Court Jester
The Cruel Sea
The Debussy Film (1965)
The Fallen Idol
The Family Way
The Foreman Went To France
The Ghost Goes West
The Good Companions
The Gorgon
The Halfway House
The Hill
The Honey Pot (1967)

The Franchise Affair
The Informers
The Jokers
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Paul Brewin
The Loudest Whisper
The Mercenaries
The Man in the Back Seat
The Mind of Mr Soames
The Night Mail
The Night My Number Came Up
The Offence
The Passing Of The Third Floor Back
The Phantom Light
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The Raging Moon (1971)
The Rocking Horse Winner
The Shadow of the Cat
The Shop at Sly Corner - in which Diana Dors makes an early appearance, and which I remember as a slightly subversive thriller! Frank Little
The Shuttered Room (1967)
The Small World Of Sammy Lee
The Snorkel (1958)
The Spider And The Fly
The Stars Look Down
The Story Of Gilbert And Sullivan
The Strange Affair
The Stranger's Hand
The Terror
The 39 Steps (1959)
The Tunnel
The Weak And The Wicked
The Whisperers
The Wild And The Willing
The Winslow Boy (with Robert Donat)
There Ain't No Justice
They Flew Alone
This Sporting Life - Paul Brewin
Tread Softly Stranger
Turkey Time

The Jokers
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Paul Brewin
The Loudest Whisper
The Mercenaries
The Night Mail
The Night My Number Came Up
The Offence
The Passing Of The Third Floor Back
The Phantom Light
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The Raging Moon (1971)
The Rocking Horse Winner
The Shop at Sly Corner - in which Diana Dors makes an early appearance, and which I remember as a slightly subversive thriller! Frank Little
The Shuttered Room (1967)
The Small World Of Sammy Lee
The Snorkel (1958)
The Spider And The Fly
The Stars Look Down
The Story Of Gilbert And Sullivan
The Stranger's Hand
The Terror
The 39 Steps (1959)
The Tunnel
The Weak And The Wicked
The Whisperers
The Wild And The Willing
The Winslow Boy (with Robert Donat)
There Ain't No Justice
They Flew Alone
This Sporting Life - Paul Brewin
Tread Softly Stranger
Turkey Time

Unearthly Stranger
Up the Creek
Up the Junction

Value for Money
Violent Playground

West Riding
Whiskey Galore
Whistle Down The Wind

West Riding
What a Carve Up
Whiskey Galore
Whistle Down The Wind