One of several features pairing British screen sweetheart Anna Neagle with the ever-popular Michael Wilding, this jaunty 'upstairs-downstairs' romantic comedy could hardly have failed to triumph at the box-office, and Spring in Park Lane would indeed prove the most successful British film of 1948 - its fairytale scenes and witty reversal of social roles offering cinemagoers a welcome antidote to post-war austerity. The film, which also marked another major success for Neagle's husband, direct.
A massive box-office hit this romantic drama set in World War Two and its aftermath is an emotional tour de force that marked the first screen pairing of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding who would become one of Britain's best-loved film couples throughout the later 1940s. Directed by Herbert Wilcox Neagle's then husband and featuring inventive dance sequences by renowned choreographer Wendy Toye Piccadilly Incident is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Alan Pearson a Naval Intelligence Captain and WREN Diana Fraser meet by chance in Piccadilly during an air raid. They fall in love and after a brief courtship marry just hours before Diana is due to be sent to Singapore; theirs is one of many hasty wartime romances. But their love story is cut short when Diana is reported missing believed drowned after the fall of Singapore. In time Alan finds love again and remarries. But Fate is to bring about an impossible situation which can only be resolved by considerable self-sacrifice... Special Features: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF
Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Thora Hird and Jack Watling star in Herbert Wilcox's masterly drama of love across the social divide. A phenomenal box-office success which resonated with cinema audiences struggling amidst the upheavals of post-war Britain, The Courtneys of Curzon Street chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Courtney family - from the close of the nineteenth century, when Edward Courtney's marriage to his mother's Irish maid scandalises Victor...
Anna Neagle gives one of her finest performances in a moving study of Florence Nightingale's fight to improve conditions for soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. Directed by Herbert Wilcox, The Lady with a Lamp co-stars Neagle's regular screen partner Michael Wilding and is presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. A landowner's daughter, drawn to nursing by her strong faith, travels to Turkey to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimea. Appalled by the squalid conditions that are claiming more lives than the fighting itself, she devotes her energies to the drive to improve care and sanitation. As a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, it is not the only battle she will face but her tireless campaign of reform will lay the foundation for modern nursing, and make her a national icon. Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Materials PDFs
In another perfect embodiment of a much-loved historical figure Anna Neagle follows her starring roles as Queen Victoria and Edith Cavell with a turn in this lavish biopic of Florence Nightingale. Based on the play by Reginald Berkeley Herbert Wilcox's film charts Nightingale's dramatic life story from her early years in society through to her pioneering reform work in the nursing service of the 19th century England.
Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding star in this classic portmanteau film that portrays the fates and fortunes of a group of disparate characters on their way to the Derby at Epsom Downs. Co-starring Googie Withers and John McCallum and directed by Herbert Wilcox, Neagle's husband and long-time collaborator Derby Day is presented as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. Each year, thousands of people make their way to Epsom for the greatest fixture on the racing calendar. These little clusters of people, each unknown to the other, are all strangely incongruous. This year, however, some are destined to be intertwined before the day's end in both joy and despair.
Award winning feature documentary Buddah Wild, directed and presented by award winning film maker and actress, Anna Wilding, is a beautiful and moving film that is a refreshing and entertaining synthesis of Eastern and Western culture, without a nibble of Hollywood cheese. Buddha Wild explores our lives as we strive to live at one with nature, our environment and explores what really goes on behind the monastery doors, through a group of remote monks adapting to the Western world. This engaging movie touches on hot-button issues like the roles of women, racism, politics, the environment and celibacy in a monk’s daily life. Special Features: Unreleased interviews. Includes director's commentary and an appearance by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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