Classic Movies: The Story of... - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Brief Encounter
Ian Nathan returns to cast his eye over more cinematic masterpieces, beginning with David Lean's 1945 romantic tragedy starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
Whisky Galore!
Ian Nathan examines Alexander Mackendrick's 1949 Ealing comedy, in which Scottish islanders try to salvage 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck.
The Producers
Ian Nathan examines Mel Brooks' classic 1968 comedy, which stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as two men who set out to make a Broadway flop.
I'm All Right Jack
Ian Nathan examines the Boulting brothers' 1959 comedy, a satire on British industrial life starring Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Rutherford.
Murder on the Orient Express
Ian Nathan examines the 1974 adaptation of the Agatha Chistie mystery, featuring a stellar cast of train-bound suspects and Albert Finney as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
The Deer Hunter
In the final episode of the series, we delve into Michael Cimino's Oscar-winning epic The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, which pioneered a radically new way of depicting the atrocities of war.
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