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Appendices

June 2009
Appendices

I Database of British films: methodology

• Intuitive list of UK films 1946-2006
• Random list of UK films 1946-2006

II Film case studies

III Statistical analysis of UK film releases in Europe and the US

IV Marketing case studies

V Analytical tables

VI Image Clearances
I Database of British films

Methodology

Research for this study was partly based on building, for the first time, a database
of all UK feature-length films known to have been released over the reference
period 1946-2006. The database was then used to produce two samples: the
intuitive list of 200 UK films and the random list. For further details please contact
the Research and Statistics Unit at the UK Film Council.
• Intuitive list of UK films 1946-2006

This list contains 200 of the UK films that have been regarded by
critical consensus as the best in the canons of national cinema. The
selection was based on intuitive criteria which took into account
existing scholarship and film review literature, ongoing contemporary
demand for those films in new media such as DVD or downloads, and
evidence of those films being referred to, quoted or evoked in the
wider context of UK culture.

The list is not comprehensive; by definition, any such list cannot be,
because it is based on largely subjective criteria which are not stable
over time, as templates of taste and popular appeal are in a constant
state of flux. However, the authors have taken particular care to
ensure that the sample does not merely reflect the taste range and
aesthetic preoccupations of a chosen elite, but features as wide a
range of films as possible in terms of genre, form, themes and
audience appeal. Finally, in order to obtain a more objective sense of
the cultural make-up of UK cinema over the period, a separate random
sample of 200 films was also compiled (see next appendix).

The films are listed in chronological order.

Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Michael Powell
The Life and Death James McKechnie
1943 Emeric
of Colonel Blimp Neville Mapp
Pressburger
Celia Johnson
1945 Brief Encounter David Lean
Trevor Howard
Stewart Granger
1946 Caravan Arthur Crabtree
Jean Ken
1946 Men of Two Worlds Thorold Phyllis Calvert
Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Dickinson Eric Portman
Michael Powell
Deborah Kerr
1947 Black Narcissus Emeric
Sabu
Pressburger
Richard
1947 Brighton Rock John Boulting Attenborough
Hermione Baddeley
Flora Robson
1947 Holiday Camp Ken Annakin
Dennis Price
It Always Rains on Googie Withers
1947 Robert Hamer
Sunday Jack Warner
James Mason
1947 Odd Man Out Carol Reed
Robert Newton
Michael Powell Anton Walbrook
1948 The Red Shoes Emeric Marcus Goring
Pressberger Moira Shearer
Scott of the John Mills
1948 Charles Frend
Antarctic Derek Bond
Anna Neagle
1948 Spring in Park Lane Herbert Wilcox
Michael Wilding
Kind Hearts and Dennis Price
1949 Robert Hamer
Coronets Valerie Hobson
Henry Stanley Holloway
1949 Passport to Pimlico
Cornelius Hermione Baddeley
The Queen of Thorold Anton Walbrook
1949
Spades Dickinson Edith Evans
Joseph Cotten
1949 The Third Man Carol Reed
Alida Valli
Antony
The Astonished Noel Coward
1950 Darnborough
Heart Celia Johnson
Terence Fisher
Jack Warner
1950 The Blue Lamp Basil Dearden
Dirk Bogarde
Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Michael Powell
Jennifer Jones
1950 Gone to Earth Emeric
David Farrar
Pressburger
Richard Widmark
1950 Night and the City Jules Dassin
Gene Tierney
Barry Jones
1950 Seven Days to Noon Roy Boulting
Andre Morell
The Lavender Hill Charles Alec Guinness
1951
Mob Crichton Sid James
Richard Donat
1951 The Magic Box John Boulting
Margaret Johnston
The Man in the Alexander Alec Guinness
1951
White Suit Mackendrick Joan Greenwood
Michael Powell
The Tales of Moira Shearer
1951 Emeric
Hoffmann Robert Rounseville
Pressburger
Cry the Beloved Canada Lee
1952 Zoltan Korda
Country Charles Carson
Alexander Phyllis Calvert
1952 Mandy
Mackendrick Jack Hawkins
Henry Dinah Sheridan
1953 Genevieve
Cornelius John Gregson
John Paddy Norman Wisdom
1953 Trouble in Store
Carstairs Moira Lister
Dirk Bogarde
1954 Doctor in the House Ralph Thomas
Muriel Pavlow
John Mills
1955 Above Us the Waves Ralph Thomas
John Gregson
Michael Richard Todd
1955 The Dam Busters
Anderson, Michael Redgrave
A Kid for Two Celia Johnson
1955 Carol Reed
Farthings Diana Dors
1955 The Ladykillers Alexander Alec Guinness
Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Mackendrick Cecil Parker
The Quatermass Brian Donlevy
1955 Val Guest
Xperiment Jack Warner
Michael Powell
The Battle of the Peter Finch
1956 Emeric
River Plate John Gregson
Pressburger
Kenneth More
1956 Reach for the Sky Lewis Gilbert
Muriel Pavlow
The Bridge on the William Holden
1957 David Lean
River Kwai Alec Guinness
Ian Carmichael
1957 Lucky Jim John Boulting
Terry Thomas
Peter Cushing
1958 Dracula Terence Fisher
Christopher Lee
Tony Richard Burton
1958 Look Back in Anger
Richardson Claire Bloom
A Night to Kenneth More
1958 Roy Baker
Remember David McCallum
Dirk Bogarde
1958 A Tale of Two Cities Ralph Thomas
Dorothy Tutin
Joan Sims
1959 Carry on Nurse Gerald Thomas
Kenneth Connor
Laurence Harvey
1959 Expresso Bongo Val Guest
Sylvia Syms
Alec Guinness
1959 The Horse's Mouth Ronald Neame
Kay Walsh
The Hound of the Peter Cushing
1959 Terence Fisher
Baskervilles Andre Morell
Ian Carmichael
1959 I'm All Right Jack John Boulting
Terry Thomas
Simone Signoret
1959 Room at the Top Jack Clayton
Laurence Harvey
Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Nigel Patrick
1959 Sapphire Basil Dearden
Yvonne Mitchell
J Lee John Mills
1959 Tiger Bay
Thompson Horst Buchholz
Richard
1960 The Angry Silence Guy Green Attenborough
Pier Angeli
Edmond T David Farrar
1960 Beat Girl
Greville Adam Faith
Tony Laurence Olivier
1960 The Entertainer
Richardson Joan Plowright
Alec Guinness
1960 Our Man in Havana Carol Reed
Burl Ives
Carl Boehm
1960 Peeping Tom Michael Powell
Moira Shearer
Saturday Night and Albert Finney
1960 Karel Reisz
Sunday Morning Shirley-Ann Field
John Mills
1961 Flame in the Streets Roy Baker
Sylvia Syms
Deborah Kerr
1961 The Innocent Jack Clayton
Michael Redgrave
Tony Rita Tushingham
1961 A Taste of Honey
Richardson Dora Bryan
Dirk Bogarde
1961 Victim Basil Dearden
Sylvia Syms
Sean Connery
1962 Dr No Terence Young
Ursula Andress
John Alan Bates
1962 A Kind of Loving
Schlesinger June Ritchie
Peter O'Toole
1962 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
Alec Guinness
The Loneliness of Tony Michael Redgrave
1962
the Long Distance Richardson Tom Courtenay
Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Runner
John Tom Courtenay
1963 Billy Liar
Schlesinger Julie Christie
Dr Strangelove; or,
How I Learned to Peter Sellers
1963 Stanley Kubrick
Stop Worrying and George C Scott
Love the Bomb
Dirk Bogarde
1963 The Servant Joseph Losey
Sarah Miles
Tony Albert Finney
1963 Tom Jones
Richardson Susannah York
Stanley Baker
1963 Zulu Cy Endfield
Jack Hawkins
John Lennon
1964 A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester
Paul McCartney
The Masque of the Vincent Price
1964 Roger Corman
Red Death Hazel Court
John Dirk Bogarde
1965 Darling
Schlesinger Julie Christie
Omar Sharif
1965 Doctor Zhivago David Lean
Julie Christie
Catherine Deneuve
1965 Repulsion Roman Polanski
Ian Hendry
Michael Caine
1966 Alfie Lewis Gilbert
Shelley Winters
A Man for All Fred Paul Scofield
1966
Seasons Zinnemann Robert Shaw
Michelangelo Vanessa Redgrave
1967 Blow Up
Antonioni Sarah Miles
Lee Marvin
1967 The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich
Ernest Borgnine
Far from the John Julie Christie
1967
Madding Crowd Schlesinger Terence Stamp
Intuitive film list sorted by year/title
Year
Title Director(s) Lead actor(s)
released
Sidney Poitier
1967 To Sir, With Love James Clavell
Christian Roberts
2001: A Space Keir Dullea
1968 Stanley Kubrick
Odyssey Gary Lockwood
Carry on Up the Sid James
1968 Gerald Thomas
Khyber Kenneth Williams
The Charge of the Tony Trevor Howard
1968
Light Brigade Richardson Vanessa Redgrave
Chitty Chitty Bang Dick Van Dyke
1968 Ken Hughes
Bang Sally Ann Howes
Lindsay Malcolm McDowell
1968 If…
Anderson David Wood
Ron Moody
1968 Oliver! Carol Reed
Shani Wallis
Harry Andrews
1969 Battle Of Britain Guy Hamilton
Michael Caine
Michael Caine
1969 The Italian Job Peter Collinson
Noel Coward
David Bradley
1969 Kes Ken Loach
Freddie Fletcher
Alan Bates
1969 Women in Love Ken Russell Oliver Reed
Glenda Jackson
Michael Caine
1970 Get Carter Mike Hodges
Ian Hendry
Julie Christie
1970 The Go-Between Joseph Losey
Alan Bates
Donald
James Fox
1970 Performance Cammell
Mick Jagger
Nicolas Roeg
Vanessa Redgrave
1971 The Devils Ken Russell
Oliver Reed
1971 Dr Jekyll and Sister Roy Ward Baker Ralph Bates