David Kossoff

In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanna (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours.

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

When the royal castle needs plumbing – and money to buy it – the sly Prime Minister of a tiny nation creates a phony space program to raise the funds. But when the local wine turns out to be ideal for rocket fuel...going to space becomes a reality!

A portrait of the early life of cinema's first great comedic artist follows the young genius from poverty and family chaos to the summit of stardom.