Malcolm Arnold

The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (2000)

The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius (2000)

Filmmaker John Milius discusses David Lean's classic Academy Award winner "The Bridge on the River Kwai. ...

Deep Purple: Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1970)

1. Intro 2. First Movement: Moderato - Allegro 3. Second Movement: Andante 4. Third Movement: Vivace - Presto Recorded on September 24th, 1969 at London's Royal Albert Hall, Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra really was a meeting of two different ...

The Reckoning (1970)

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he's confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father die ...

David Copperfield (1969)

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. ...

Divertimento (1968)

BP documentary film exploring the natural beauty of oil under the microscope, and through a variety of other techniques. ...

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school. ...

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark. ...

The Thin Red Line (1964)

Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant W ...

The Chalk Garden (1964)

The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, ...

Nine Hours to Rama (1963)

José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi. ...

The Lion (1962)

Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced w ...

The Inspector (1962)

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine. ...

On the Fiddle (1961)

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various ...

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ. ...

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities ...

Tunes of Glory (1960)

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair un ...

The Angry Silence (1960)

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers. ...

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. ...

Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest i ...

Blind Date (1959)

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by ...

The Boy and the Bridge (1959)

A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up home there. ...

Coupe des Alpes: The Story of the 1958 Alpine Rally (1959)

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 (Experimental BBC London Local Tests). Final showing: 7th November 1968. ...

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualified to be sent as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn to send herself to a poor, remote village. There, she eventually lives a full and happy life: runni ...

The Roots of Heaven (1958)

In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivor ...

The Key (1958)

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 pret ...

Dunkirk (1958)

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get t ...

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant (1958)

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction. ...

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's ...

Island in the Sun (1957)

A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island. ...

A Hill in Korea (1956)

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight thei ...

Port Afrique (1956)

An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about. ...

Trapeze (1956)

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer. ...

Wicked as They Come (1956)

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder. ...

1984 (1956)

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. ...

The Deep Blue Sea (1955)

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. ...

A Prize of Gold (1955)

A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans. ...

The Woman for Joe (1955)

A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman. ...

Value for Money (1955)

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her. ...

I Am a Camera (1955)

Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until thei ...

The Constant Husband (1955)

Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detec ...

The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while h ...

The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabel ...

Beautiful Stranger (1954)

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook. ...

The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him. ...

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about the ...

Hobson's Choice (1954)

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him. ...

Devil on Horseback (1954)

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey ...

36 Hours (1953)

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 3 ...

Copenhagen: 'City of Towers' (1953)

This travelogue emphasizes Copenhagen's harmonious residents and tone. We see well-known landmarks and get a quick history of some of them. ...

The Captain's Paradise (1953)

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow hi ...

Four Sided Triangle (1953)

A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship cha ...

Man of Africa (1953)

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and Batwa tribes to a new territory after the natural resources of their native soil has been depleted. The pro ...

Powered Flight: The Story of the Century (1953)

A historical documentary tracing the development of powered flight from early aviation pioneers to the postwar jet age, focusing on Britain's role in the evolution of air travel. ...

The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering. ...

The Ringer (1952)

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him. ...

It Started in Paradise (1952)

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down. ...

The Sound Barrier (1952)

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law's prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service. ...

Stolen Face (1952)

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns. ...

Wings of Danger (1952)

A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion. ...

Home at Seven (1952)

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder. ...

Curtain Up (1952)

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, ...

The Island (1952)

The initial stages of the construction of an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent, and its impact on the local farming community. ...

No Highway in the Sky (1951)

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manife ...

Your Witness (1950)

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than w ...

The Forbidden Street (1949)

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the ...

Dollars and Sense (1949)

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling. ...

Mining Review (1948)

One of a series of newsreels made about mining ...

Queen o’ the Border (1948)

A portrait of Hawick, pronounced 'hoik' by the locals, a town in the Scottish Borders. The film was shot in Technichrome - a vibrant colour system developed in 1948 to photograph the British Olympic Games. ...

Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival (2004)

A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. ...

Malcolm Arnold at 70 (1991)

A documentary about British composer Malcolm Arnold ...

Deep Purple: Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1970)

1. Intro 2. First Movement: Moderato - Allegro 3. Second Movement: Andante 4. Third Movement: Vivace - Presto Recorded on September 24th, 1969 at London's Royal Albert Hall, Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra really was a meeting of two different ...