Most Popular J. B. Priestley Trailers
Total trailers found: 57
15 September 1957
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance.
31 July 1940
Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.
10 November 2010
A suspect is looked for by an eligible police officer after a women allegedly committed suicide...
16 November 1938
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries.
13 January 2006
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life.
04 December 1934
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
29 May 1949
Guests at an hotel become irrationally convinced that they have been there before - perhaps in a different life?
13 January 1977
Eight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
25 April 1981
The life of Mr. Kettle, an executive of a single bank in a small provincial English town Brickmill, is strictly organized: 7 a.
11 January 1939
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
22 June 1942
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
11 May 1939
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast.
07 April 1985
1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence.
01 August 1991
According to the story of JB Prestley "Jenny Villiers." Actors of the London Theater gathered in the Green Room of Barton Spa, a kind of theater museum.
09 November 1980
Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.
13 September 2015
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide.
05 August 1960
Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wilde's disastrous libel charge against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas.
16 November 1936
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave.
13 August 1935
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain.
16 March 1954
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances.
13 July 1959
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job.
13 September 1979
Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
20 October 1932
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
25 December 1957
Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos.
04 February 1965
Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
19 February 2015
An unexpected inspector drops by a lavish party of a notable family in order to investigate the suicide of a pregnant girl.
22 May 1936
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home.
15 May 1950
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
16 November 1962
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident.
31 October 1963
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
22 April 1957
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
06 June 1972
Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating revelations, revealing a hitherto undiscovered tangle of clandestine relationships and dark secrets, the disclosures of which have tragic consequences.
10 July 1949
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries.
05 February 1964
A German professor un-nerves the residents when he claims to have been in a small Yorkshire moors inn sometime previously.
25 December 1951
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law.
27 October 1966
Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here.
26 November 1994
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government.
31 December 1978
A lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century.
28 July 1935
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H.
21 January 1971
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson.
28 February 1933
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
30 August 1974
The action takes place in one of the provincial towns of England. The First World War ended. Every member of the Conway family dreams of fulfilling their hopes.
27 December 1984
Action takes place in England during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relationship in the once wealthy bourgeois family, whose members, in their own way, are experiencing the collapse of their plans and hopes.
27 April 1969
A portrait of Raymond Chandler, creator of the Philip Marlowe mystery thrillers, by John Foster and Fred Burnley.
21 August 1944
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
11 August 1942
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
22 May 1983
An unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft.
12 February 1965
Sub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold.
28 September 1963
England. The old and sick artist Symonds Kendle, fleeing from the insistent claims of his children to his remaining paintings and drawings, goes with his granddaughter Felicity to another city to a friend.
26 December 1987
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law.
12 July 1943
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries.
24 March 1982
Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been there before.
13 September 1934
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
