Search: Starring Esmond Knight

Black Narcissus (1947)

Review preview for Black Narcissus

Perfectly controlled lighting simulates the thin air that exhausts the once disciplined sisters.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

A group of nuns struggle to keep order in a remote Himalayan convent.
Gone To Earth (1950)

Review preview for Gone To Earth

With dialogue like this, you don't need a scene at the village fair to reinforce olde worlde cliches of English rural life, but you get it, anyway.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5

A barefooted Shropshire lass marries the vicar and is seduced by the squire.
Henry V (1944)

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Shakespeare's most popular history... lashings of style, wit and theatrical skill, all shot in Glorious Technicolor.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5

Laurence Olivier brings his own dramatic touch to Shakespeare in a stirring tale of battle against the odds.
Peeping Tom (1960)

Review preview for Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom is a film all about watching and identification, a film whose real horror hinges on the way it implicates the audience in its dark voyeurism.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

A young photographer becomes fascinated by expressions of fear, with deadly consequences.
The Red Shoes (1948)

Review preview for The Red Shoes

The dance sequences are brilliantly performed and well worth watching the film for in their own right.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

A dancer is torn between the man she loves and her obsessive commitment to her craft.