Film 3 "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" BBF No. 14

Well sir, I have a friend ... Good. Not everybody can say that. Continue!

1943 Micheal Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Following events around General Clive Wynne-Candy told in chapters of  his life from the Boer War at the turn of the 20th century to the Second World War in the 40's. An officer and a gentleman who believes there are rules to war and things must be done a certain way, the Germans are not playing by the rules this time.
Not a traditional war film at all, there are hardly any tanks and the biggest fight scene is probably in the restaurant where Candy bribes the orchestra the play Strauss because he knows it will annoy a German officer he knows.
A sombre sobering film with a very english under current of humour. Top Hole Old Boy.
Can't find an official trailer.
7/10

Film 2 "Culloden" BBF No. 50

They've created a desert and have called it "peace"

1964 Peter Watkins
A made for TV film about the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil in 1746.
It was shot and narated as if TV cameras were present at the event. A strange viewing experience, starting this list I knew it would be different from the IMDB list, but this wouldn't have been on the radar. It's a British classic masterpiece that I wasn't expecting. the John Snow character behind the stone wall is great. I can see lots of inspiration for early Python and Pete and Dud material.
And I learnt a bit of history.
Find it, watch it.
8/10

Film 1 "Billy Liar" BBF No. 78

"You and flamin' oranges"

1963 John Schlesinger
Adapted from the play by Keith Waterhouse, following the life of William Fisher.
Billy works in an undertakers office as a clerk but has aspirations of becoming a scriptwriter in London, he spends more time than is normal or healthy in a fantasy land called Ambrosia, where he can be whoever he wants to be. Can he grow up and have the nerve to actually make the trip to London?
Behind the story of Billy there is a glipse into what life was like in the early 60's in England, the work culture, the social and sex lives.
Good to see Leonard Rositer as Billy's boss, an early sight of what Rigsby was to become.