A Gainsborough picture to shock and break your heart.  Barbara Worth (Margaret Lockwood) meets her match in Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason) in a film of dandy highway men, dissatisfaction and desire.

This was the most commercially successful of Gainsborough Pictures, and probably remains the most memorable. Unfortunately, most critics at the time hated it.  It's a twisted take on romance, one where the heroine doesn't lust after love throughout the film.  She has her own agenda. But, like all wicked ladies, she meets her end just as she realises what could have been.

It's rather saucy for its time.  In fact, it had to be reshot to pass the US censors because there was too much cleavage!

Price: £5 (full price) / £3.50 (conc)
OR £4.50 advance tickets online here http://www.wegottickets.com/event/134500 

This film is being shown as part of our GREAT BRITISH ROMANCE SEASON (11 to 22 September 2011)

It's time to celebrate a very British kind of romance! The Star and Shadow presents four films that straddle WWII and span the country.

Sunday 11th September, 7:30 pm: Wuthering Heights (1939)

Our Great British Romance season begins with one of the greatest love stories ever told. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven star in this classic tale of doomed love upon the Moors. Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy!

Thursday 15th September, 7:30 pm: I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Powell and Pressburger most certainly know how to do romance! Wendy Hiller is magnificent as the unromantic and stubborn Joan Webster who is out to marry for marriage's sake, but who finds love along the way.

Sunday 18th September, 7:30 pm: The Wicked Lady (1945)

A Gainsborough picture to shock and break your heart. Barbara Worth (Margaret Lockwood) meets her match in Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason) in a film of dandy highway men, dissatisfaction and desire.

Thursday 22nd September, 7:30 pm: Brief Encounter (1945)

Our season ends with the ultimate of all Great British Romance films. A chance meeting leads to an impossible love affair, every Thursday, over a cup of tea. It's GREAT. It's BRITISH. It's ROMANCE!