British Movies

Immediately after the War, an extremely conservative British cinema emerged making mainly film versions of stage and literary classics. It was not until the mid-fifties that, under the influence of the French New Wave, British filmmakers began producing low budget, social realist films. Again, increasing prosperity brought an end to the social realist movement but it produced a number of directors who had great success in the mid-sixties. These included Tony Richardson, John Schlesinger, Richard Lester and Ken Russell. American Stanley Kubrick and Pole Roman Polanski also made their most important films in Britain during this period. (Roman Polanski moved to Hollywood in the late sixties and early seventies to become part of the "renaissance" of American cinema.)

Year	Title	Director	Cast
1959	Look Back in Anger	Richardson	Richard Burton
1960	Spartacus *	Kubrik	Kirk Douglas
1961	A Taste of Honey	Richardson	Shelagh Selaney
1962	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	Richardson	Michael Redgrave Tom Courtenay
1963	Tom Jones	Richardson	Albert Finney
1963	Billy Liar	Schlesinger	Tom Courtenay
1964	A Hard Days Night	Lester	The Beatles
1964	Dr Strangelove	Kubrik	Peter Sellers George C Scott
1965	Help!	Lester	The Beatles
1965	Repulsion	Polanski	Catherine Deneuve
1966	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Lester	Zero Mostel Phil Silvers
1967	Far from the Madding Crowd	Schlesinger	Julie Christie
1967	How I Won the War	Lester	Michael Crawford John Lennon
1968	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Richardson	trecor Howard Venessa Redgrave John Gielgud
1968	Rosemary's Baby *	Polanski	Mia Farrow
1968	2001: A Space Odyssey	Kubrik	Keir Dullea Gary Lockwood
1969	Midnight Cowboy *	Schlesinger	Dustin Hofman Jon Voight
1969	Women in Love	Russell	Glenda Jackson
1970	Ned Kelly	Richardson	Mick Jagger
1971	A Clockwork Orange	Kubrik	Malcolm McDowell
1971	Sunday, Bloody Sunday	Schlesinger	Peter Finch Glenda Jackson
1971	The Music Lovers	Russell	Glenda Jackson Richard Chamberlain
1974	Chinatown *	Polanski	Jack Nicholson Faye Dunawaye

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