Two lads decide to "adopt" a baby when they aren't allowed to keep a dog. Charming film with a special Oscar a-piece for Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter.
1.00 pm Film4 Wed 7 May
Thriller set in 1940. The British try to liberate diamonds from an Amsterdam vault before the Germans get to the city.
Interesting docu-drama, both glum and sentimental, but with enough action to keep things going.
2.50 pm Film4 Wed 7 May
The POW film with a difference with Hardy Kruger as Franz Von Werra - the only German to escape from the allies in WWII. It's also one of the best of the genre and you'll be rooting for Kruger despite knowing what he's going back to fight for.
2.50 pm Film4 Thur 8 May
Street urchin tries to see Queen Victoria.
Andrew Ray gets his best child-star role, but he can't steal the film from Alec Guinness as Disraeli and Irene Dunne as the Queen.
1.00 pm Film4 Thur 8 May, 3.00 pm Film4 Wed 14 May
Dirk Bogarde has the title role. Michael Horden is his employer, a diplomat, trying to bring up his son Jon Whiteley after his wife has left them. The son's more interested in Dirk however, making Michael very jealous.
Bogarde by this point was King of the Rank Studios and trying to stretch himself with roles which were different from the norm. This is one of his better early efforts at escaping from being just a matinee idol.
2.40 pm Film4 Fri 9 May
Fun comedy thriller set in a women's internment camp in France. See here for fuller review.
1.00 pm Film4 Mon 12 May
Another fifties war film. It's the Navy and it has Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee... Make your own plot.
11.15 am More4 Tues 13 May
Noel Coward's story of a family between the wars. It's sentimental and maybe faintly patronising, and the Technicolor makes the whole thing seem very artificial and theatrical; but once you get past that you have a fascinating saga that's well worth another look.
4.50 pm Film4 Wed 14 May
A draper chucks over his dull old life and goes in search of something better.
Fondly-remembered adaptation.
1.00 pm Film4 Fri 16 May
Ivor Novello is suspected of being Jack the Ripper in this classic silent film. Director Alfred Hitchcock's fifth film and the one he described as being the first true Hitchcock film. It contains many elements that would become his trademarks including a walk-on for himself.
18.30 pm NFT1 Tues 13 May
