Whistle Down the Wind (1962), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Ruling Class (1972), 36 Hours (1964), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Green Man (1957), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), The Scapegoat (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best British Literature On Screen movies.
Storyline: Much to the consternation of the local townsfolk, the very rich Copper John Brodrick begins to develop a copper mine on Hungry Hill. He imports Cornish workers hoping to eventually entice the locals into working for him. His son, known as Greyhound John, isn't so sure anything will endear them to the locals. The opposition to the Brodricks is lead by the Donovan family and he gives them fair warning to stay off the property. When one of the protesters is killed while trying to help himself to some of the copper, the townspeople attack the facilities resulting in a great many more deaths - including one of Brodrick's sons, Henry - when the gunpowder store explodes. It marks the true beginning of a feud that will last for decades. Brodrick rebuilds his facilities and Greyhound John returns from London where he is studying the law after his sister tells him Fanny Rosa has also returned. A cave-in at the mine kills another member of the Donovan family but the younger John contracts typhoid and dies. Copper John lives on hoping his grandson Johnny will take over but he joins the army. When he finally inherits the estate, he has his own troubles to deal with.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: pregnant, spanking, lie, spoiled child, mother son relationship, uniform, army ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: British archaeologist David Redfern comes to Tunisia to catalog a collection of art relics and stumbles into evidence of a gun-smuggling racket. Hesitant at first to get involved or even to report the information, he becomes convinced he must do the right thing after a young man is murdered. By then, though, the smugglers know Redfern knows too much and they target him for death.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: fictional town, expatriate, escape, hunting, corrupt cop, chase, weapon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a train travelling through pre-World War II Germany, American heiress Amanda Metcalfe Madvani von Hoffstetter Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) befriends Miss Froy (Dame Angela Lansbury), an older nanny. But when Miss Froy disappears, everyone Amanda asks denies ever having seen her. Eventually, Amanda persuades American photographer Robert Condon (Elliott Gould) to help her search the train, during which they discover that Miss Froy wasn't quite what she seemed.—measham
Plot Keywords: false identity, aristocrat, servant, patient, nun, scheme, socialite ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr Christine Allison's employed by an attorney who'd formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: mercy killing, pocket watch, doctor patient relationship, literature on screen, european literature on screen, british literature on screen, crime literature on screen ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: anthropomorphic animal, violence, insanity, animal cruelty, pacific island, experiment gone wrong, based on novel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion, far earlier than expected. At a party in the village, Angus meets Lord James D'Ampton, who has just inherited his family's land right next to Temple House. Angus learns of the D'Ampton Worm, a huge dragon-snake that an earlier D'Ampton killed by cutting it in half. (There's a pretty catchy rock-folk song that tells the D'Ampton Worm legend.) As people begin disappearing and acting strangely over the next few days, the skull is stolen from Angus's room, and the watch of a missing person is found in a cavern that was the legendary home of the D'Ampton worm. Angus and James discover that there was an ancient cult that worshiped the worm as a god, and they theorize that the creature somehow survived its destruction, but it was trapped inside the cavern. The remainder of the movie shows Angus, James, and Mary Trent attempting to stop Lady Marsh from freeing the creature....—Alik Widge
Plot Keywords: surprise ending, panties, kiss, female frontal nudity, dildo, bound and gagged, vampire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in 19-year-old American Marion, who is available but refuses any romantic illusions. Her candor and cynicism put him off at first, but after he sees her breaking up with her rocker boyfriend, he's attracted to her and invites her on an idyllic fortnight in France. She slowly pokes holes in his artifice and he comes to care for her. When they return to Londonwith the press thinking they're married, they come to a crossroads: go back to their old lives, marry each other, or invent a new, open relationship. Is Robert up to it?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: lust, female frontal nudity, female rear nudity, female nudity, sex on couch, sex in bed, adultery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she immediately feels reinvigorated and becomes a better and more engaging teacher overnight, while even bonding with some of the students. Even her sex life with her husband improves. However, there is a downside to this when the moon is full. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous fiery creature dubbed Mrs. Hyde contained and continue to use her newfound creativity and lust for life for good?
Plot Keywords: person on fire, downpour, speech, narcissistic man, narcissist, narcissism, mysterious death ...
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