The 1949 British black comedy regarded as a cinematic masterpiece. A crime story, it sees Alec Guinness playing eight characters, alongside co-stars Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson. The plot focuses on a vengeful man attempt to secure the family's dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.

Ian Nathan looks at the 1948 British adventure film, which stars John Mills and tells the story of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.