By Vlad Zakh · March 6, 2026
Roger Livesey brought a warm, distinctive gravelly voice to British film and delivered one of cinema’s best-loved performances as an ageing military officer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. A Matter of Life and Death and I Know Where I’m Going! are other Powell and Pressburger highlights, The Master of Ballantrae feuds two Scottish brothers, The Entertainer clings to fading music hall glory, and Of Human Bondage rounds out the list.
01 Roger Livesey is in this adaptation about a clubfooted medical student whose obsessive infatuation with a cruel waitress consumes his life.
Directed by Ken Hughes · 1h 40m · Rated NR
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02 Brenda de Banzie features in this Laurence Olivier drama about a washed-up music hall performer who clings to fading glory while his family unravels around him.
Directed by Tony Richardson · 1h 44m
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03 Roger Livesey is in this Errol Flynn adventure about two feuding Scottish brothers who end up on opposite sides of a rebellion and a long, bitter rivalry.
Directed by William Keighley · 1h 30m · Rated NR
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04 A determined young woman's plans to marry a rich man are complicated by an unexpected encounter on a Scottish island.
Directed by Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell · 1h 31m · Rated NR
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05 A wartime pilot who survives a fatal crash has to argue for his life before a heavenly court.
Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger · 1h 44m · Rated PG
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06 Anton Walbrook appears as a British officer's decades-long friendship with a German soldier is tested by two world wars.
Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger · 2h 43m · Rated NR
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