James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate Trailer
Alan Bridges was an English television and film director. In 1967 Bridges directed a television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations starring Gary Bond as Pip. He won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Hireling.
Total trailers found: 33
29 October 1970
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones).
27 January 1981
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J.
03 October 1965
Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean.
26 December 1990
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.
05 October 1976
A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
04 January 1976
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
04 March 1970
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner.
18 October 1965
A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
01 October 1965
Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain.
13 October 1968
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
09 April 1969
A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.
06 January 1983
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together.
23 August 1978
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
01 January 1978
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends.
03 December 1969
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
26 October 1980
Another of Dennis Potter's "visitation dramas": Adultery by John disturbs Janet, so she flirts with the simple, mistreated Billy during the middle of giving him a reading lesson.
28 April 1977
A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
10 June 1973
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
13 May 1970
After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.
27 November 1968
TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.
01 September 1964
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
10 April 1968
Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.
01 February 1985
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot.
21 March 1971
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged.
05 July 1972
A contemporary retelling of the Mary Shelley story, produced as a tribute to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley on the 150th anniversary of his death.
02 January 1981
Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to pieces.
04 July 1972
Jack Black is a disturbed commercial actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
31 May 1975
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast.
14 February 1974
The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees).
06 May 1985
Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.
14 October 1971
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR.
01 January 1984
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
