In Which We Serve (1942)
Noel Coward
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This Happy Breed (1944)
David Lean
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Blithe Spirit (1945)
David Lean
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The memorable wartime drama In Which
We Serve gave Noël Coward ample scope to demonstrate his
remarkable range of talents. Not only does Coward give an
impressive performance in the leading role... [More...]
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After his first successful collaboration with David Lean on the wartime
drama In Which We Serve
(1942), Noël Coward allowed Lean to direct single-handedly another
of his stage plays... [More...]
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A rare comedy from David Lean, one of England’s finest filmmakers, is this "spirited"
adaptation of a popular stage play by Noel Coward. Lean and Coward collaborated
on three other films: In Which We Serve (1942)... [More...]
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Brief Encounter (1945)
David Lean
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Great Expectations (1946)
David Lean
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Oliver Twist (1948)
David Lean
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Although often misrepresented (usually by people who have never seen
the film), Brief Encounter is
assuredly one of the great all-time classics of British cinema... [More...]
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Sixty years on, David Lean’s Great
Expectations remains the finest screen adaptation of a Charles
Dickens novel. From the eerie opening scenes set on the Kentish
marshes to the labyrinthine Gothic dusty mausoleum... [More...]
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David Lean followed his superlative Great Expectations (1946) with
this equally impressive re-telling of a popular Dickens classic
novel. Of the numerous film and television adaptations that Oliver Twist has undergone... [More...]
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The Passionate Friends (1949)
David Lean
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Madeleine (1950)
David Lean
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The Sound Barrier (1952)
David Lean
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With this, his second romantic melodrama, David Lean presumably hoped
to repeat the success of his earlier Brief Encounter (1945).
Although it has a narrative structure... [More...]
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Madeleine was the least
successful and remains the most underrated of David Lean’s historical
dramas, even though artistically it is on a par with his other great
films of this period... [More...]
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One of the least known and most underrated of David Lean’s films, The Sound Barrier offers a
fascinating glimpse of Britain in the early 1950s... [More...]
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Hobson's Choice (1954)
David Lean
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Summertime (1955)
David Lean
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean
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Whilst it may not enjoy the universal acclaim of David Lean’s better known films,
this adaptation of Harold Brighouse’s
popular stage play is one of the director’s most enjoyable works... [More...]
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David Lean directed many great films, several undisputed masterpieces,
but the film of which he was fondest was Summertime,
a comparatively modest work which has been
described as a remake of his earlier Brief Encounter... [More...]
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This classic film was based on a novel by Frenchman Pierre Boulle, who
also wrote the novel that inspired the Planet of the Apes franchise.
Boulle... [More...]
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lean
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
David Lean
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A Passage to India (1984)
David Lean
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Lawrence of Arabia is one of
the great film classics of the Twentieth Century, a lavish and
absorbing spectacle that deserves the epithet "epic" more than perhaps
any film before or since... [More...]
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David Lean’s epic saga of romance and revolution in Russia has been
vilified as much as it has been praised. Some consider it a
masterpiece, possibly Lean’s best film; others dismiss it as overblown
artistic... [More...]
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What better way to end a glorious filmmaking career than with a
superlative adaptation of a 20th Century literary masterpiece?
Incredible to think that David Lean was 75 when he made A Passage to India... [More...]
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