The Greengage Summer 1961    star_border 6.2
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

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The Silver Chalice 1954    star_border 4.5
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.

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South Riding 1938    star_border 6.2
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

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Storm in a Teacup 1937    star_border 7.5
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

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Modern Orphans of the Storm: The Story of the Refugee Basque Children 1937
Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England].

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