Odette (1950)

Anna Neagle's another heroine, this time going underground in France against the Nazis. Not her best film but watchable and she gets to show that she's not as fragile as she looks.

9.50 am BBC2 Sat 8 Feb

Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

John Mills plays the ultimate stiff-upper-lipped hero in this wonderful re-creation of the doomed expedition. The visuals are grand and Vaughan Williams' score is one of the best in the movies.

1.15 pm BBC2 Sun 9 Feb

Pool of London (1950)

Realistic, down-beat portrayal of life on the docks. There's a thin plot about smuggled diamonds but it's the background of trams and pubs and a vanished way of life that now excites most interest. That, and British cinema's first black/white romance between Earl Cameron and Susan Shaw.

11.00 am Film4 Mon 10 Feb

Reach for the Sky (1956)

Kenneth More is Douglas Bader in probably his best-remembered performance. He's the cocky pilot who loses both legs in an accident but still manages to become a war hero. It's full of the sort of clichéd understated dialogue that can be very silly in the wrong hands but here becomes the basis of a moving example of stiff-upper-lipped myth making.

3.30 pm Film4 Wed 12 Feb

They Came to a City (1944)

Nine archetypal characters visit an ideal city.

Talky drama which flopped but now seems an essential articulation of the social discourse of the era. Still not much of a film though.

4.40 pm Talking Pictures TV Thur 13 Feb

An Inspector Calls (1954)

J.B. Priestley's spooky drama is brought to the screen in a workmanlike fashion by director Guy Hamilton. It's 1912 and a policeman calls at the family home of Arthur Birling to investigate the suicide of one of his former workers. His investigations reveal that each member of the family had contributed to the girl's death. Or did they?

The play stands or falls on the performance of the actor playing the Inspector. The film gives Alastair Sim one of his best-remembered roles. The rest of the cast give nice performances but there's only one star.

2.00 pm Talking Pictures TV Fri 14 Feb

The Crimson Circle (1936)

Three businessmen are killed by The Crimson Circle. The police investigate.

Another workmanlike slice of Edgar Wallace.

Introduced by Vic Pratt

6.10 pm NFT1 Tues 11 Mar