Appendix 1: Synopses of films
Vehicle for the popular British slapstick comedian, Norman
Wisdom, who plays a butcher’s boy falling for a nurse during a
stay in hospital.
Summer Holiday
Peter Yates, ABP, UK 1962.
Cliff Richard; Lauri Peters; Melvyn Hayes; Una Stubbs; Teddy
Green; Ron Moody; Lionel Murton; David Kossoff.
Musical travelogue in which four young London Transport mechanics
led by Cliff Richard take a specially fitted red double decker
London bus across Europe to Athens, encountering various light
hearted adventures on the way.
They Were Sisters
Arthur Crabtree, Gainsborough, UK 1945.
James Mason; Phyllis Calvert; Dulcie Gray; Hugh Sinclair; Anne
Crawford; Peter Murray Hill.
'One of three sisters tries to rescue another, ill treated by her
sadistic husband, but the sister kills herself. At the inquest
the former is given custody of the children., BFI filecard.
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson, Woodfall, UK 1963.
Albert Finney; Susannah York; Hugh Griffith; Edith Evans; Joan
Greenwood; Diane Cilento; David Warner; Freda Jackson; Wilfrid
Lawson; George Devine; Joyce Redman; Rachel Kempson.
Based on Fielding's classic 18th century novel, the film
chronicles the adventures of Tom (Finney), the illegitimate ward
of a worthy west country squire, in his home, on the road after
his banishment and in London as he seeks reunion with his true
love Sophie (York), daughter of the bucolic neighbouring squire.
A Town Like Alice
Jack Lee, Rank, UK 1956.
Virginia McKenna; Peter Finch.
'Life among the prisoners of the Japanese in Malaya, especially
one who is finaly reunited with her Australian lover. Genteelly
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