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Emily (1976 Film)
''Emily'', also known as ''The Awakening of Emily'', is a 1976 British erotic historical drama film set in the 1920s directed by Henry Herbert, produced and written by Christopher Neame, and starring Koo Stark. The story revolves around a seventeen-year-old girl who is pursued by various middle aged men and women. The main setting of the film is Wilton House, which was the director's ancestral seat, and the countryside around it. An X-rated film, it has a cast of mainstream actors including Victor Spinetti, Sarah Brackett, Constantin de Goguel, Ina Skriver, Jeremy Child, Jack Haig, and Richard Oldfield. Its music was composed and sung by the singer and poet Rod McKuen. Plot Emily Foster is an American-born seventeen-year-old brought up in London. Her father died when she was a small child, while her mother, Margaret Foster, is supported by a lover. The film, set in 1928, follows Emily as she returns home from a finishing school in Switzerland to her mother's cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Herbert, 17th Earl Of Pembroke
Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, 14th Earl of Montgomery (19 May 1939 – 7 October 2003), styled Lord Herbert between 1960 and 1969 and often known simply as Henry Herbert, was a British landed gentry, landowner, member of the House of Lords, film director, and producer. Background and education Herbert was the only son of the Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 16th Earl of Pembroke and 13th Earl of Montgomery and his wife, Mary (a daughter of the John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow) and a godson of Prince George, Duke of Kent. Through the 11th Earl of Pembroke, he descended from Countess Catherine Vorontsov. After making documentaries about musicians, the first feature film he directed was ''Malachi's Cove'' (1974), also known as ''The Seaweed Children'', starring Donald Pleasence and Arthur English, but he is best remembered for his second film, ''Emily (1976 film), Emily'' (1976), a picture set in the 1920s starri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Haig (actor)
Jack Haig (born John Cecil Coppin; 5 January 1913 – 4 July 1989) was an English actor who specialised in supporting roles, mainly in television comedy. He was best known for playing Monsieur Roger Leclerc in the British sitcom '''Allo 'Allo!'' between 1982 and 1989. Biography Haig was the son of music hall actors Bertha Baker and Charles Coppin, whose act went under the name "Haig and Esco." He was seen in a long list of British television favourites including: '' Hugh and I'', ''Are You Being Served?'', ''Terry and June'' and ''Dad's Army'' (although he turned down the role of Corporal Jones which then went to Clive Dunn) . He was in the '' Crossroads'' soap opera as occasional character Archie Gibbs from 1967 to 1982 and a couple of cinema films. He achieved his greatest success as Monsieur Roger Leclerc in BBC's Allo 'Allo!'', a role he played until his death. His last appearance was in the final episode of series 5, where he impersonated a Spanish guitarist, alongside K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsignor Quixote
''Monsignor Quixote'' is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1982. The book is a pastiche of the early 1600s novel ''Don Quixote'' by Miguel de Cervantes with many moments of comedy, but also offers reflection on matters such as life after a dictatorship, Communism, and the Catholic faith. Plot summary Father Quixote, a parish priest in the little town of El Toboso in Spain's La Mancha region, regards himself as a descendant of Cervantes' character of the same name, even if people point out to him that Don Quixote was a fictitious character. One day, he helps and gives food to a mysterious Italian bishop whose car has broken down. Shortly afterwards, he is given the title of ''Monsignor'' by the Pope, much to the surprise of his bishop who looks upon Father Quixote's activities rather with suspicion. He urges the priest to take a holiday, and so Quixote embarks upon a voyage through Spain with his old Seat 600 called " Rocinante" and in the company of the Communist ex-mayor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soldier, Soldier
''Soldier Soldier'' is a British television drama series. Created by Lucy Gannon, produced by Central Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of seven series and 82 episodes from 10 June 1991 to 9 December 1997. It featured the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'A' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers, a fictional British Army infantry regiment loosely based on the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. The title comes from a traditional song of the same name, " Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?", an instrumental version of which is used as its theme music. Synopsis Set in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, it is a dramatisation of army life in the early to mid-1990s, when the British Army was undergoing significant change. This is perhaps best demonstrated during the third series, around 1994, when a significant number of real regiments were forced into amalgamations with one another due to downsizing of the army. Within the world of ''Sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Irish R
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flame Trees Of Thika
''The Flame Trees of Thika'' is a British television serial of seven 50-minute episodes made by Euston Films for Thames Television in 1981. It was adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya's Central Province. The story deals with the lives of British settlers in this part of East Africa in 1913, when the country was a British colony, up to the start of World War One. The series stars Hayley Mills (in her first starring role after a six-year performing hiatus), Holly Aird, David Robb and Ben Cross. Plot Robin Grant ( David Robb), his wife Tilly ( Hayley Mills) and daughter Elspeth (Holly Aird) move to British East Africa (now called Kenya) to set up a coffee plantation. They meet Piet Roos ( Morgan Sheppard), a Boer big game hunter, and Njombo, a local person, who goes to work for them. The Grants face many travails in getting established, but these improve after they hire ano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger UXB
''Danger UXB'' is a 1979 British ITV television series set during the Second World War. It was developed by John Hawkesworth and starred Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers (RE). The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company,The tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in World War I were numbered 170–185 and 250–258. Seven of them (170–173 and 178–180), were revived in 1939–1940, serving on Malta and Gibraltar, but not in bomb disposal. which has been made a bomb disposal unit, and specifically 347 Section of the company, to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in London during the Blitz. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fuzing. The series primarily features militar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Cundell
Pamela Isabel Cundell (15 January 1920 – 14 February 2015) was an English character actress. She played Mrs Fox in the long-running TV comedy ''Dad's Army''. She was a descendant of Henry Condell, one of the managers of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company of William Shakespeare. Henry Condell also helped put together the first folio of Shakespeare's works after his death. Early life Pamela Cundell was born in Croydon, Surrey, in 1920 into a show business family, and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before gaining experience in rep and summer shows as a stand up comic. Career Making her first television appearance in 1957 with Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, she worked with many of the comic performers of her time, including Frankie Howerd, Benny Hill and Bill Fraser, the last of whom she was married to. A semi-regular in ''Dad's Army'' as Mrs Fox, her character married Lance-Corporal Jones ( Clive Dunn) in the final episode. Cundell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Hayden
Jane Hayden (born 1957) is an English stage, television, and film actress. Early life Hayden was born in Harrow, Middlesex, the younger sister of Linda Hayden, although their name at birth was Higginson. Their screen surname is an adaptation of their father's first name; he was Haydn Henley Higginson. Both sisters trained at the Aida Foster Theatre School, and Jane Hayden's first screen role came in 1970, when she played a child in a BBC television film about Lenin, ''Out of This Spark: The Making of a Revolutionary''.'' Radio Times'', Volume 187 (G. Newnes, 1970), p. 51 Filmography *''Out of This Spark: The Making of a Revolutionary'' (BBC, 1970) as Child *''Warship'' (1973) as Samantha *'' The Awakening of Emily'' (1976) as Rachel *''Confessions of a Pop Performer ''Confessions of a Pop Performer'' (also known as ''Timothy Lea's'' ''Confessions of a Pop Performer'') is a 1975 British Sex comedy, sex-farce film directed by Norman Cohen and starring Robin Askwith and Tony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Auker
David Auker is a British film and television actor. Filmography Film *'' Unman, Wittering and Zigo'' (1971) .... Aggeridge *''Confessions of a Pop Performer'' (1975) .... Zombie (Kipper) *''Adventures of a Taxi Driver'' (1976) .... 2nd kidnapper *'' Emily'' (1976) .... Billy *''Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers'' (1977) .... Lantry *'' A Bridge Too Far'' (1977) .... 'Taffy' Brace *'' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977) .... LS RP2 Peters (HMS Ranger Crewman) *'' Confessions from a Holiday Camp'' (1977) .... Alberto Smarmi *'' Cola, Candy, Chocolate'' (1979) .... Johnny Smith *'' Last Resort'' (2000) .... 2nd Council Official *'' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (2004) .... Clive (final film role) Television *'' Crossroads'' (1964) .... Arnold Jenkins *'' Hans Brinker'' (1969) .... Jacob *'' The Worker'' (1970) .... Skinhead *'' Shades of Greene'' (1975) .... Chemist's assistant *''Get Some In!'' (1976) .... AC1 cook Dunlop *''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (1978) .... Policeman *''Dange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Class System
The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution) divided hierarchically within a system that involved the hereditary transmission of occupation, social status and political influence. Since the advent of industrialisation, this system has been in a constant state of revision, and new factors other than birth (for example, education) are now a greater part of creating identity in Britain. Although the country's definitions of social class vary and are highly controversial, most are influenced by factors of wealth, occupation, and education. Until the Life Peerages Act 1958, the Parliament of the United Kingdom was organised on a class basis, with the House of Lords representing the hereditary upper class and the House of Commons repres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Ethics
Sexual ethics (also known as sex ethics or sexual morality) is a branch of philosophy that considers the ethics or morality of Human sexual behaviour, sexual behavior. Sexual ethics seeks to understand, evaluate and critique interpersonal relationships and sexual activities from social, cultural, and philosophical perspectives. Some people consider aspects of human sexuality, such as gender identification and sexual orientation, as well as Consent (criminal law), consent, sexual relations and Human reproduction, procreation, as giving rise to issues of sexual ethics. Historically, the prevailing notions of what is regarded as sexually ethical have been linked to philosophy and religious teachings. More recently, the feminist movement has emphasized personal choice and consent in sexual activities. Terminology and philosophical context The terms ''ethics'' and ''morality'' are often used interchangeably, but sometimes ''ethics'' is reserved for interpersonal interactions and ''mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
