Film

Holiday Inn – 1942 Christmas can’t begin until Bing Crosby sings ‘White Christmas’, and he is joined here by a bevy of famous faces from the 1940’s movie world. Jim Hardy (Crosby) and Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire) have performed together for many years. But when Ted announces that he and Jim’s girlfriend, dancer Lila Dixon […]

A British fantasy film set during World War Two, A Matter of Life and Death begins like many other war films of the era. Squadron leader Peter Carter (David Niven) finds himself flying his badly damaged Lancaster bomber over the English Channel, alone and without a parachute. With apparently no hope of survival, Carter manages

Citizen Kane Released in 1941 by Mercury Productions, Citizen Kane was the debut film for Orson Welles.  At just twenty five years old Welles produced, co-wrote and directed the film, as well as playing in the starring role. The plot examines the life and legacy of wealthy newspaper publisher and industrial magnate Charles Foster Kane.

With the outbreak of war in late 1939, attempts were made by the government to close all places of popular entertainment, including the cinemas. Mostly located in city centres and regularly packed with men, women and children, it was feared that cinemas posed a danger during bombing campaigns. But a public outcry meant that the