Classic Movies: The Story of... - Season 3
Season 3
Episodes
The Ipcress Files
A celebration of cinematic masterpiece The Ipcress Files, a spy thriller from 1965, based on Len Deighton's novel published three years earlier. Directed by Sidney J Furie, it starred Michael Caine as an intelligence officer from the War Office investigating the disappearances of high-level scientists.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The 1949 British black comedy regarded as a cinematic masterpiece. A crime story, it sees Alec Guinness playing eight characters, alongside co-stars Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson. The plot focuses on a vengeful man attempt to secure the family's dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.
The Dam Busters
The planning and making of the 1955 British docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. Directed by Michael Anderson, the plot was based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during the Second World War
Scott of Antarctic
Ian Nathan looks at the 1948 British adventure film, which stars John Mills and tells the story of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Flash Gordon (1980)
Ian Nathan looks at the 1980 sci-fi adventure, which starred Sam Jones in the title role as the American football player thrown into a battle to save the Earth.
Billy Liar
Ian Nathan takes a look at John Schlesinger's 1963 British New Wave classic, starring Tom Courtenay as problematic protagonist Billy Fisher and Julie Christie as his free-spirited love interest Liz.
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