Ian Dalrymple
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Director), 15 (Writer)
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A "documentary" style film to praise the R.A.F. at the start of World War II. The 'Michael Powell' touch adds to the stock footage to bring us the people involved in a bomber attack on the Keil Canal and a Spitfire night fighter repulsion of the Nazi bombers. (imdb)
Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is. (imdb)
Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. (imdb)
Movie adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene, and based on his war-time experiences in Sierra Leone.
A no-nonsense account of a group of UN soldiers during the Korean "police action" of the early 1950s. This "skeleton" patrol maintains its tenuous hold over a strategic hill, while determining the best method of sneaking into a communist-held village. While Korean veterans tended to dismiss the film as Hollywood-style hokum, Hell in Korea has stood the test of time far better than many other more elaborate "realistic" wartime dramas. (allmovie.com)
Brook, the quintessential Englishman, being spitefully accused of cheating at cards by the husband of a woman with whom Brook is infatuated. He may be a bounder but he's not a cad, and he insists (at the cost of his good name and his army career) on proving it in court.
French Without Tears is a 1940 comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Ray Milland. It was based on the play of the same name by Terence Rattigan who also co-wrote the script. (Wikipedia)
A present-day version of Arnold Bennett's novel telling of a Treasury official who, despite keeping a firm control on the handling of public money, has no idea how to cope with the large fortune which he unexpectedly inherits. (BFI)
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos. (imdb)
Crime drama about a woman psychiatrist who saves a London hoodlum from being hanged. (BFI)
The wife of a politician is found dead at a country inn, where she had been seen with the politicians secretary, Alan. He is the immediate suspect but has a valid alibi. (imdb)
"Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " (imdb)
WWI veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son. (imdb)
A poor widow with two daughters augments her income by using her children to extort money. Visiting the houses of the rich people, they tell a sad story and beg for help. Then she meets a wealthy man who proposes marriage to her.