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Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1953: 36 Hours: Montgomery Tully: Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Eric Pohlmann: Crime: Albert R.N. Lewis Gilbert: Anthony Steel, Jack ...
This is a chronological list of films produced in the United Kingdom split by decade. There may be an overlap, particularly between British and American films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either British produced or strongly associated with British culture .
This is a partial list of songs that originated in movies that charted (Top 40) in either the United States or the United Kingdom, though frequently the version that charted is not the one found in the film. Songs are all sourced from, [1] [2] and,. [3] For information concerning music from James Bond films see
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The most represented years, with four films each, are 1949, 1963, and 1996. The earliest film selected was The 39 Steps (1935), and only two other 1930s films made the list. David Lean is the most represented director on the list, with seven films, three in the top five and The Bridge on the River Kwai in eleventh place.
In February 2011 Time Out surveyed 150 film industry experts to produce its list of "The 100 best British films." Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now topped the list. [1] [2] An updated list was published in May 2021, retaining the same rankings but adding four films (The Souvenir, Scum, God's Own Country, and Dunkirk) in place of Listen to Britain, Penda's Fen, I'm All Right Jack, and School for ...
14 January – Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia antartica is given its first performance in Manchester. [1]3 February – Contralto Kathleen Ferrier, suffering from terminal cancer (unknown to the public), gives a critically acclaimed performance on the first night of a new English-language production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Many successful songs were the product of films, including number ones for Doris Day in 1954 with "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane and for Frank Sinatra with the title song from Three Coins in the Fountain, underlining the dominance of American culture in both film and music at this time, and arguably providing a mechanism for the transference ...