British Cinema on Late-Night TV
by rediffusionlondon | created - 02 Mar 2013 | updated - 02 Mar 2013 | PublicHere's a few of the films I discovered on late night TV during the seventies and eighties, although all of them are from the sixties and early seventies. I hope you enjoy discovering these films as much as I did.
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1. All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
An irresponsible window cleaner believes he has found true love with a woman he picked up in a tavern.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Victor Henry, Susan George, Jack Shepherd, Clare Kelly
Votes: 253
2. No Blade of Grass (1970)
R | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick
Votes: 2,056 | Gross: $0.35M
3. Bitter Harvest (1963)
91 min | Drama
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Janet Munro, John Stride, Alan Badel, Anne Cunningham
Votes: 326
4. Up the Junction (1968)
R | 119 min | Drama
Addresses some of the major 60s social issues - a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends... of which one has to get an illegal abortion.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta
Votes: 1,009
5. Night of the Big Heat (1967)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow
Votes: 2,333
aka Night of the Big Heat
6. Two Left Feet (1965)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Every time Alan Crabbe tries a manful stride into the jungle of sex, his two left feet turn the attempt into a stumble. But then he meets Eileen, who signals unmistakable messages at Alan with her large, inviting eyes.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Michael Crawford, Nyree Dawn Porter, Julia Foster, David Hemmings
Votes: 81
7. Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final one of their number winds up with a lady of the night. As they talk, the unsophisticated and naive lad starts to believe he has found true love.
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird, Michael Medwin
Votes: 310
8. School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Madeleine Hinde, Renée Asherson, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Mower
Votes: 231
9. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker
Votes: 9,282
10. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Sport
A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen
Votes: 9,371
11. Otley (1969)
M | 92 min | Comedy
Gerald Otley, wannabe antiques dealer, is kicked out of his flat for failing to pay rent, sleeps at a friend's house for the night, wakes up two days later in an airport field, and finds himself entangled in international espionage.
Director: Dick Clement | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers
Votes: 574
12. Billy Liar (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 7,097 | Gross: $0.04M
13. All Coppers Are... (1972)
87 min | Drama
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Martin Potter, Julia Foster, Nicky Henson, Wendy Allnutt
Votes: 249
14. What's Good for the Goose (1969)
105 min | Comedy
A middle aged banker picks up two young free minded women on his way to a banker's convention and falls head over heels for one of them.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Sally Geeson, Sarah Atkinson, Sally Bazely
Votes: 375
15. The L-Shaped Room (1962)
126 min | Drama, Romance
A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix
Votes: 2,230
16. The Leather Boys (1964)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson
Votes: 1,022
17. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy
A high-school dropout, obsessed with sex, is determined to lose his virginity.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Angela Scoular, Sheila White
Votes: 809
18. Bedazzled (1967)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch
Votes: 9,810
19. Darling (1965)
TV-MA | 128 min | Drama, Romance
Beautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, José Luis de Vilallonga
Votes: 7,902
20. The Family Way (1966)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers, John Comer
Votes: 1,874
21. Spring and Port Wine (1970)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton.
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: James Mason, Diana Coupland, Hannah Gordon, Susan George
Votes: 991
22. The Best Pair of Legs in the Business (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
With his life crumbling around him in a dingy holiday camp, middle-aged female impersonator Sherry Sheridan stays rooted in the past. But will his son Alan, and long-suffering wife Mary, stay with him?
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Reg Varney, Diana Coupland, Lee Montague, Jean Harvey
Votes: 249
23. Alfie (1966)
Unrated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Votes: 15,824 | Gross: $18.87M
24. Melody (1971)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married as soon as possible.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Jack Wild, Colin Barrie
Votes: 3,171
25. The Lovers! (1973)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Big-screen version of the TV sit-com about the ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, Susan Littler, Rosalind Ayres
Votes: 272
26. The Reckoning (1970)
R | 111 min | Drama
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after five years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Zena Walker
Votes: 629
27. The Death Wheelers (1973)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Horror
An amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an "undead".
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin
Votes: 3,144
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