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Also on release this month: The Flame of Love Seven Nights in Japan Charley Moon The Extra Day Ballad in Blue Don’t Bother to Knock

Spring in Wonderful Things Memoirs of a Survivor Those Were the Days Up Jumped a Swagman Home at Seven Nothing But the Best Julie Christie stars in an award-winning adaptation of Doris Lessing’s famous dystopian novel. This complex, haunting science-fiction feature is presented in a Set in the exotic surroundings of Russia before the First brand-new transfer from the original film elements in World War, The Flame of Love tells the tragic story of the its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. doomed love between a young Chinese dancing girl and the adjutant to a Russian Grand Duke. One of five British films Set in Britain at an unspecified point in the near- featuring Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, The future, Memoirs of a Survivor tells the story of ‘D’, a Flame of Love (also known as Hai-Tang) was the star’s first housewife trying to carry on after a cataclysmic war ‘talkie’, made during her stay in London in the early 1930s, that has left society in a state of collapse. Rubbish is when Hollywood’s proscription of love scenes between piled high in the streets among near-derelict buildings Asian and Caucasian actors deprived Wong of leading roles. covered with graffiti; the electricity supply is variable, and water is now collected from a van. ‘D’ spends her Also featuring Blackmail star John Longden and German time examining her relations with authority, with the actor Georg Schnell, The Flame of Love is presented here marauding gangs of brutalised children who roam the in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, streets, and with Emily, the traumatised, orphaned in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. It contains the teenager who is delivered into her care. opening overture (without picture) in full. SPECIAL FEATURES: SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF

1930 / 1.19:1 / Black and White / 76 mins / 1981 / 1.85:1 / Colour / 111 mins / Mono / English Mono / English Making his only major film appearance, legendary soul singer Ray Charles helps transform the lives of a blind boy and his widowed mother in this poignant, uplifting film drama set in mid-1960s London. Presented in a brand-new transfer from original film elements showing This marvellously entertaining, tongue-in-cheek musical the maximum filmed picture area,Ballad in Blue sees romp stars Frank Ifield as a talented young Australian singer Charles – who had lost his sight completely by the age who moves to London in search of his big break, tries to woo of eight – performing some of his best-loved songs, a top model – while seemingly overlooking the beautiful including I Got a Woman, Hit the Road, Jack and Busted. publican’s daughter who truly loves him – and gets tangled up with a gang of thieves! During a performance, global star Ray Charles befriends David, a young boy who has recently lost his sight. Then, Featuring Ifield’s only feature-film appearance and made at during a world tour, Charles finds himself in , where the height of his fame, Up Jumped a Swagman interweaves a surgeon is pioneering a radical procedure that could vibrant scenes of London life with some of Ifield’s best-loved restore David’s sight; he sets out not only to convince hits. Also featuring Suzy Kendall, Ronald Radd and Annette David’s mother to allow her son to undergo the surgery, Andre, it is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the but also to reconcile her with her boyfriend, a struggling original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. composer who seeks solace in alcohol.

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1965 / 2.35:1 / Colour / 86 mins / Mono / English 1940 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 86 mins / Mono / English Reprising his role in R.C. Sherriff’s West End stage hit, stars as a staid London bank clerk whose inexplicable amnesia leaves him without an alibi in the aftermath of a murder; stars as his doctor, and Adapted from Arthur Pinero’s relentlessly popular Margaret Leighton his equally perplexed wife. stage farce The Magistrate, Those Were the Days was a perfect early vehicle for the comedic brilliance This suspense film saw Richardson taking on the role of director of Will Hay. Hay’s feature-length debut is a typically for the only time in his career; the result is a taut, compelling entertaining study of the upstanding but ineffectual and very human drama that retains a gripping sense of mystery magistrate, Mr Poskett, while a youthful is right up to its conclusion. Home at Seven is presented here in a the 20-year-old stepson who must pretend to be 15 to brand-new transfer from the original film elements. preserve the secret of his mother’s falsified age. When David Preston returns home at seven, his distraught Presented in a brand-new digital transfer from the wife tells him that he did not come home at seven – or at any original film elements, this rare cinematic gem notably other time – the previous evening. In fact, he has no idea where includes a wonderful evocation of the atmosphere he could have been; he recalls nothing between the time he of an 1890s music hall, with Lily Morris and Harry left the bank on Monday and his arrival home that following Bedford among a number of leading acts featured. evening. It soon emerges that during Preston’s ‘lost day’, a murder and robbery have taken place… SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery / Original Script PDF SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDFs 1934 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 77 mins / Mono / English 1952 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 82 mins / Mono / English Set in a beautiful fishing village in , Wonderful Things! stars as Carmello, a young Giving a chilling and intensely sympathetic fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to performance, Kirk Douglas stars as a disturbed man marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to whose attempt to recover a sense of self-worth takes England to seek his fortune – and finds fortunes are not him to the limits of despair and revenge. This critically quite so easy to come by... acclaimed thriller is tautly directed by the multi-award- winning Daniel Petrie. Cat and Mouse is presented An enchanting, humorous romance set to music which here in a brand-new transfer from the original film also stars smouldering teen idol Jeremy Spenser and elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. gave an early role to Jackie Lane, Wonderful Things! was among the series of light comedies starring George Anderson, a downtrodden teacher, is delivered Vaughan on which director collaborated a final humiliating blow from his recently divorced wife with wife throughout the 1950s. The film is when she tells him that he is not the father of her son. presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original Distraught, he walks away from his old life and calls the film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. police to make a terrifying statement: ‘Tonight... before midnight... I’m going to kill somebody’. SPECIAL FEATURES: SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDF Full-Frame Version / Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDF 1958 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 82 mins / Mono / English 1974 / 1.75:1 / Colour / 86 mins / Mono / English Richard Todd plays a philandering travel agent with too Anna Neagle and star in this jaunty many girlfriends in this delightful romantic romp. Don’t romantic comedy which could hardly have failed to Bother to Knock also features Elke Sommer, June triumph at the box-office, and would Thorburn, John Le Mesurier and Nicole Maurey among a indeed prove the most successful British film of 1948 high-calibre international cast. The film is presented here – its fairytale scenes and witty reversal of social roles in a brand-new transfer from the original elements, in its offering cinemagoers a welcome antidote to post-war as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. austerity. The film, which also marked another major success for Neagle’s husband, director Herbert Wilcox, is Bill Ferguson’s troubles begin when he mislays the key to presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original his flat, and a friend helpfully presents him with several elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. more with his name and address attached. Sentimentally, he gives one to each of the glamorous girls he meets on When Judy Howard arrives at the door of her wealthy Uncle a Continental holiday – all of whom turn up at his flat, Joshua’s residence, she is surprised to be met by Richard, just as he is about to marry his British fiancee! an unfamiliar member of the staff. Who, exactly, is he? SPECIAL FEATURES: SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer / Film Inserts (Mute) Image gallery Image Gallery / Original Promotional Material PDF 1948 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 88 mins / 1961 / 2.35:1 / Colour / 85 mins / Mono / English Mono / English Black humour and biting social satire combine in this acclaimed feature starring Alan Bates as an ambitious, young real-estate clerk who’s determined heads an accomplished cast in this to crawl his way to the top of the social pile; musical drama charting the rocky road to success Denholm Elliott is the disreputable aristocrat who for a young comedy hopeful. An early feature for teaches him all he needs to know, Millicent Martin Guy Hamilton and double Oscar-winning composer the girl he sets out to woo and win. Nothing but Leslie Bricusse, Charley Moon is presented here in the Best is presented here in a brand-new digital a brand-new transfer from the original film elements transfer, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

Jimmy Brewster is a working-class lad using his A demobbed ENSA entertainer teams up with an dynamism, natural cockiness and abundant charm erstwhile colleague to make a go of it as stage to overcome any obstacles to the champagne comics. Things are not easy, so they decide to try lifestyle he craves. But just how far is Brewster their luck in London... prepared to go in order to get what he wants? SPECIAL FEATURES: SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery / Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery / Theatrical Material PDFs Promotional Material PDF 1956 / 1.33:1 / Colour / 88 mins / Mono / 1963 / 1.66:1 / Colour / 96 mins / English Mono / English

Richard Basehart, Simone Simon, , Sid Michael York stars as a fictional British prince who James and Beryl Reid are among the stars of this engaging falls in love with a beautiful Japanese tour guide in this ‘portmanteau’ feature that takes a comical look at the sumptuous romantic adventure. Directed and produced by usually obscure but oddly complicated lives of a group of Oscar-nominated Lewis Gilbert, Seven Nights in Japan is film extras. The Extra Day is presented here in a brand-new presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. theatrical aspect ratio. Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in At the end of the final day of filming, one of the studio drivers Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling loses the last can of film. The producer orders his assistant broadly, he goes through the complicated formalities Joe Blake to track down all five extras involved in the last of being greeted by a host nation. But housed with scene, ensuring they are available the following morning for the Ambassador and his family, the Prince finds the retakes. Visiting each in turn, he has a glimpse into their atmosphere stuffy and dull; he longs for freedom and, for various private lives and finds comedy, drama and tragedy. once, rebels against his upbringing with all its constraints and responsibilities, escaping for a week of romance, and SPECIAL FEATURES: unexpected drama… Alternate US Titles Logo / Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDF SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery / 1956 / 1.33:1 / Colour / 80 mins / Mono / English Original Presbook PDF

1976 / 1.75:1 / Colour / 100 mins / Mono / English This month at the Essoldo, Cheam High Street’s luxurious cinema club:

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