Simon Heffer discusses the film It Always Rains on Sunday, noting how it showed a gritty world of shrewish housewives, spivs, thugs and avuncular but determined policemen. Show more
Simon Heffer discusses the 1951 film The Browning Version, pointing to how it outlined personal, marital and institutional failure with a clarity and honesty unusual for its time. Show more
Simon Heffer discusses the 1952 film The Long Memory, noting its potrayal of Britain as depressed, worn out by war and full of the poor, dispossessed, transient and criminal. Show more
Simon Heffer discusses the 1956 film Yield to the Night as part of a series about taboo-breaking classic British films of the post-war period. Show more
