John Glenister

Misterioso

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.

Sometime in August

Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.

Blunt

Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.

On Your Way, Riley!

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.

The Lady's Maid's Bell

Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.

To the Camp and Back

Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-war—a Luftwaffe pilot.

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian crisis; a crisis which soon threatens the very foundations of their marriage. A New York bartender refuses to lower his standards even when his boss threatens to sack him. Michael Loomis runs into trouble when he confesses to his beautiful young wife that he can't help eyeing the girls in their summer dresses ...

The Nuclear Family

1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.

Pygmalion

Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.

Contract

George is a leading industrialist, respected and feared by many. Billy, however, has no fear of him, as he shows when chance brings them together.

Rumpole's Return

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

The Specialist

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?

Trouble with Gregory

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio people. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours ...

A Photograph

A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.

Two Men from Derby

Two men from Derby County FC are keen to make a new signing, but he is not at home. His wife promises he won't be long and makes conversation with them while attending to her household chores.

Almost a Vision

Champagne dialogue alleviates nervousness of sleeping together.

The House on Highbury Hill

The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.

Miss Julie

A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.

Billy's Last Stand

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

Zigger Zagger

Zigger Zagger is a 1967 play by Peter Terson which was the first work to be commissioned by the National Youth Theatre who revived it at Wilton's Music Hall in 2017 for its 50th anniversary. Described as a "football opera" in which the cast sing and chant like a Greek chorus, the play was an instant success. The production was directed by Michael Croft while the Musical Director was Colin Farrell. Adopted later by non-league giant killers, Altrincham FC.