Joan Greenwood

A bubbly satire, acclaimed as one of the funniest and cleverest of British comedies. Alec Guinness, as a scientist, invents a fabric that will never wear out. Threatened with unemployment, the unions and a dismayed garment tycoon plot to destroy his miracle formula.

Escapees from a Confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island.

A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. Nominated for Best British Film at the **BAFTA Film Awards.** WInner of the Best Production Design Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system." - Ben Walters, **Time Out***...

Impatient to become duke, the ninth in line decides to eliminate the eight relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy. Obstructing the path to his title is Alec Guinness, in one of his greatest performances, playing all eight relatives.

A chemist creates a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out or gets dirty. When word of the creation leaks out, all the mill owners and workers want it, and the man that created it, destroyed.

Eighteenth century smugglers beseige a small English village. A gothic melodrama of smuggling, intrigue and upper class decadence seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy.

Watson, on his first solo case, investigates the strange goings-on at Baskerville Hall. Frustrated at every step, he has to call for the great detective, Sherlock Holmes to help him out.