Margaret Lockwood as Anna Bomasch in Night Train to Munich (1940) in the BFI’s promotional booklet for its 2008 Sidney Gilliat season. Page reads: ‘As a writer and director in the heyday of Britain’s studio system Sidney Gilliat was both a consummate entertainer and a sharp social commentator. British cinema is all the richer for his beady eye and dry wit argues Geoff Brown.’

Margaret Lockwood as Anna Bomasch in Night Train to Munich (1940) in the BFI’s promotional booklet for its 2008 Sidney Gilliat season. Page reads: ‘As a writer and director in the heyday of Britain’s studio system Sidney Gilliat was both a consummate entertainer and a sharp social commentator. British cinema is all the richer for his beady eye and dry wit argues Geoff Brown.’