Oliver Stapleton Movie Trailers

Mantrap Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

A longform video that showcases the British pop group ABC, using songs from their album "The Lexicon of Love" to tell a spy-caper story of how the unsuspecting lead singer, Martin Fry, is duped into fronting the band because of his striking resemblance to another man associated with espionage.

The Rise of the Comic Strip Trailer (2023)

23 June 2023

Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (1981)

13 December 1981

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl.

The Designated Mourner Trailer (1997)

23 May 1997

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.

Jazz '34 Trailer (1997)

29 January 1997

A recreation of 1934 Kansas City jazz jam session created by Robert Altman.

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders) Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.

Private Enterprise Trailer (1986)

02 January 1986

Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he takes to a promoter, Brian.

Eddie Monsoon - a Life? Trailer (1984)

04 February 1984

Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Brazil and then to England where he attracted notoriety with his explicit sex farces on the stage and shocking TV shows which even Channel 4 banned.

Dinner and a Movie Trailer (2013)

29 June 2013

After a year of exchanging romantic letters, besotted bachelor Randy Stubleski and convict Crystal Phillips finally meet when she is released from a Michigan prison.

The Rupert Bear Story: A Tribute to Alfred Bestall Trailer (1982)

09 December 1982

Programme which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the creation of children's cartoon character Rupert Bear, with Paul McCartney, Richard Rogers, Dr.