Bryan Forbes – MRQE

The League of Gentlemen

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

Restless Natives

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.

The Key

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into “U-Boat Alley” to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He’s given a key by a fellow tugboat-man — a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

I Am a Dancer

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Yesterday’s Enemy

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted

I Was Monty’s Double

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German’s about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

Quatermass 2

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow “meteorites” originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

Satellite in the Sky

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).

The Baby and the Battleship

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed – and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.

Appointment in London

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.