Mary Ure

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar® Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel. A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th Century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother.

An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.

Commandos, posing as German soldiers, parachute into a city to rescue a supposed allied General from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car.