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Appendix 1: Synopses of films

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Karel Reisz, Bryanston/Woodfall, UK 1960.

Albert Finney; Rachel Roberts; Shirley Ann Field; Hylda Baker.

One of the first 'kitchen sink' films heralded as the British
'new wave'. Arthur Seaton (Finney) is a young factory worker
living with his parents in a northern industrial town. He has
an affair with a married woman (Roberts) and meets a girl he
wants to marry (Field ). тДе film's explicit reference to
private and public moral codes marked a clear change in British
cinema.

The Searchers

John Ford, Warner, US 1956.

John Wayne; Jeffrey Hunter; Natalie Wood; Vera Miles; Ward Bond.

Set in the late 1860s the film details the five year search for
Debbie (Wood) abducted by Comanches when they attacked her home
and murdered her family. Ethan (Wayne) and Marty (Hunter) follow
this western quest through spectacular landscapes and varying
weather conditions, returning periodically to the isolated Texan
settlers' community.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Stanley Donen, MGM, US 1954.

Howard Keel; Jane Powell; Jeff Richards; Russ Tamblyn.

'In the old west, seven hard working brothers decide they need
wives, and carry off young women from the villages around.
Disappointingly studio bound western musical, distinguished by
an excellent score and some brilliant dancing, notably the barn
raising sequence.' Halliwell 1987.

The Seventh Veil

Compton Bennett, Theatrecraft, UK 1945.

James Mason; Anne Todd; Herbert Lom; Albert Lieven; Hugh
McDermott.

Psychological drama about a concert pianist (Todd) and the
reasons for her pathological belief that her hands are
irreparably damaged. Lom is her psychiatrist and Mason the
misogynist cousin who, as her guardian, has brought her up and

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