, 1h9 OriginUnited-kingdom GenresThriller ActorsNorman Wooland, Dennis Waterman, Howard Lang, John Moulder-Brown, Josephine Stuart Rating62% Roy Lewis, just released from jail, kidnaps his young son Ted and takes him on a train bound for Inverness. However, Lewis doesn't know that Ted is diabetic and faces death without regular insulin injections. Meanwhile, a police manhunt is launched.
, 1h56 Directed byDavid Lean, George Pollock OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Adventure, Crime, Melodrama ThemesFilms about children, L'enfance marginalisée ActorsAlec Guinness, Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan Roles Oliver's Mother Rating77% A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and matron Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws; Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, I want some more").
, 1h42 Directed byHarold French OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama ActorsMichael Denison, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dulcie Gray, Fred Groves, Ronald Howard, Mary Clare Roles Lily Rating71% The story revolves around the life of Jonathan Dakers (Denison), a small town doctor. He is training to be a surgeon when his father dies. Due to the resulting financial problems, he cannot continue his training. He buys a share in Dr. Hammond's general practice in Wednesford, a poor foundry town.