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Appendix 1: Synopses of films

J Lee Thompson, Godwin/Willis, UK 1957.

Anthony Quayle; Yvonne Mitchell; Sylvia Sym; Andrew Ray; Carole
Lesley.

Marital drama told mainly from the point of view of the wife
(Mitchell) as her marriage is threatened by her husband's
(Quayle) affair with a younger woman (Sym). The film stands out
for its careful attention to the domestic details of the lower
middle class urban setting and for its sympathetic attention to
the different desires of its protagonists.

Yield to the Night

J Lee Thompson, ABP, UK 1956.

Diana Dors; Yvonne Mitchell; Michael Craig.

Anti capital punishment drama based on the Ruth Ellis case. Dors
plays the lead and her accomplished performance surprised many,
particularly since she spends most of the film in her prison cell
accompanied only by her warder (Mitchell) and dressed in a
voluminous nightdress, without makeup, as she awaits execution.

The Young Ones

Sidney J Furie, ABP, UK 1961.

Cliff Richard; Robert Morley; Carole Grey; Melvyn Hayes.

Musical comedy set in London in which a youth club is threatened
with demolition by a property tycoon (Morley) whose son
(Richard), a member of the club, organises resistance. To raise
the necessary funds the teenagers put on a musical in an
abandoned theatre and its success unites the generations.

Zulu

Cy Endfield, Paramount/Diamond, UK 1964.

Stanley Baker; Jack Hawkins; Michael Caine.

'In 1879 British soldiers stand fast against the Zulus at Rorke's
drift. Standard period heroics, well presented and acted.'
Halliwell 1987.    ‘

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