Michelangelo Antonioni's close-up of Swinging Sixties London. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city twenty-four hours a day focusing in on the world's most beautiful models. One day he takes some photographs of a couple embracing in a park and suspects he has stumbled across a murder. Antonioni received Academy Award nominations for Best Writer and Best Director in 1966 for this his first English Language film.
Set in 1950’s Dublin Steve Lawlor (Richard Leech) returns to Ireland to aid the Republican cause by taking part in the armed robbery of a security van in the North. The robbery is a success but Lawlor who held the loot disappears. Canadian photographer John Kevin (William Sylvester) arrives in Dublin expecting to meet Lawlor but is informed by police that his friend died in a blazing car crash. The Republican gang believe Lawlor’s absent passenger in the car bookseller Danny O’Callaghan is the traitor and has made off with the stolen money. Lawlor’s Italian girlfriend doesn’t believe he died in the crash and when Kevin is attacked by a mysterious assailant in a white trenchcoat he becomes suspicious and begins investigating the circumstances of Lawlor’s death. But will he discover the real story behind his friends’ death and will the Movement take their revenge on a traitor?
The Will Hay Collection is a nine-disc box containing the following films: Ask a Policeman / Boys Will Be Boys Oh, Mr Porter! / Convict 99 Old Bones of the River / Where There's a Will Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! USA! Windbag the Sailor (exclusive to this box set): dating from 1936 this is the first film to unite Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The hapless trio find themselves as the crew of a decrepit ship.
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