By Vlad Zakh · February 26, 2026
Kay Walsh brought a sharp, versatile presence to British film across five decades, comfortable in wartime drama and Dickensian melodrama alike. Oliver Twist drops an orphan among Victorian pickpockets, Last Holiday spends a man’s savings after a wrongly terminal diagnosis, The Horse’s Mouth follows a penniless painter chasing a last masterpiece, and Tunes of Glory pits two officers against each other. This Happy Breed and In Which We Serve round out the list.
01 Dennis Price features in this drama about two rival officers who clash over command and discipline at a remote Scottish army barracks.
Directed by Ronald Neame · 1h 46m · Rated NR
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02 Kay Walsh appears as an eccentric, penniless painter schemes and cons his way toward finishing one last masterpiece.
Directed by Ronald Neame · 1h 35m
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03 A man mistakenly told he has a terminal illness decides to spend his savings on one final, glorious holiday.
Directed by Henry Cass · 1h 28m · Rated NR
Stream: Criterion Channel
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04 An orphaned boy falls in with a gang of young pickpockets led by a cunning criminal mastermind.
Directed by David Lean · 2h 01m · Rated NR
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05 Celia Johnson features in this drama about an ordinary London family navigating two decades of joy and hardship between the wars.
Directed by David Lean · 1h 51m · Rated PG
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06 The crew of a British warship and their families endure the hardships of the Second World War.
Directed by Noël Coward & David Lean · 1h 55m · Rated NR
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