Silver Sirens

The Golden Age of British Film and Theatre

British cinema during the 1940s enjoyed a golden age as wartime film-makers found a new freedom to reflect the national mood, producing works of unparalleled ambition and boldness. Audiences turned to Ealing comedy films, escapist Gainsborough melodrama and World War II propaganda.
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Main title from While I Live (1947) (4). Screenplay by John Harlow.

While I Live
While I Live (1947) opening credits (4)

Main title from While I Live (1947) (3). With John Warwick. Based on the play ‘This Same Garden’ by Robert Bell. All rights reserved

While I Live
While I Live (1947) opening credits (3)

Main title from While I Live (1947) (2). Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Carol Raye, Patricia Burke and Sonia Dresdel

While I Live
While I Live (1947) opening credits (2)

Main title from While I Live (1947) (1). Edward Dryhurst Productions Limited presents

While I Live
While I Live (1947) opening credits (1)

Screenshot from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (1). China 1926… Ravaged from within by corrupt warlords… oppressed from without by the great world powers who had beaten China to her knees a century before… China… A country of factions trying to unite to become a nation… through revolution…

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) screenshot (1)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (10)

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (10)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (9)

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (9)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (8). Co-starring Marayat Andriane and Mako

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (8)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (7). Candice Bergen

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (7)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (6). Richard Crenna

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (6)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (5). Richard Attenborough

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (5)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (4). Starring Steve McQueen

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (4)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (3). A Robert Wise production

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (3)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (2)

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (2)

Main title from The Sand Pebbles (1966) (1). Twentieth Century Fox

The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (1966) opening credits (1)

Recent DVD and Blu-ray Releases

Danger Within (1959) [Blu-ray]

Danger Within (1959) Blu-ray from Network and the British Film (2020) (1)

Released:
16th November, 2020
Price: £12.99

Escape plans of officers in a prisoner-of-war camp are threatened by an informer.
Featuring: Danger Within (1959).

Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) [Blu-ray]

Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) Blu-ray from Network and The British Film (2020)

Released:
1st June, 2020
Price: £12.76

A waitress wins a local beauty contest and becomes a charm school starlet and later a stripteaser.
Featuring: Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951).

The Man in Grey (1943) [Blu-ray]

The Man in Grey Blu-ray from Network and The British Film (2020)

Released:
18th May, 2020
Price: £15.66

In Regency times, an aristocrat’s love for her less fortunate friend is repaid by jealousy, treachery and murder.
Featuring: The Man in Grey (1943).

North Sea Hijack (1980) [Blu-ray]

North Sea Hijack Blu-ray from 88 Films (2019)

Released:
9th March, 2020
Price: £15.99

A British oil rig in the North Sea is held for ransom.
Featuring: North Sea Hijack (1980).

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