Billie Whitelaw Archives

The Krays

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.

R

6.1

1990 Crime 119 min Play

6.4

Gumshoe

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

NR

6.4

1971 Comedy 88 min Play

5

Leo the Last

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.

R

5

1970 Comedy 104 min Play

5

The Adding Machine

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

NR

5

1969 Comedy 100 min Play

6

Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

NR

6

1968 Comedy 89 min Play

6.8

Twisted Nerve

Hywel Bennett stars as Martin Durnley, a rich but damaged Oxford University drop-out with a hatred of his banker stepfather, played by Frank Finlay. His mum babies the boy, a consequence of Martin's elder brother, a Down Syndrome sufferer (or 'Mongoloid' - or even 'mentally backward' as they say here), being in full-time care, and the doctors having warned Martin's parents not to have any more children - just to be on the safe side. Too late: troubled mummy's boy Martin, with his cuddly ...

NR

6.8

1968 Drama 112 min Play

7.1

Payroll

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

NR

7.1

1961 Crime 105 min Play