Thora Hird Movies

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless...

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.

An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but ends up learning just as much about...

The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When...

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced...

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London...

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as...

A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.

Filmed in rural Sussex in 1982 and re-edited in 2008 with a new sound track, the charm of this period piece does not date. Each month there is a...

George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.

Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul...