Philip Ashley Movies

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

BBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play.

The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and ominously destroys the glass pane separating the subject from the viewer.

Sophy, a kitchen maid, has her fortune told by a gypsy, who sees something shiny over Sophy's head: a sword, or perhaps a crown. Sophy then sets out for Paris, where she gains employment with the Zerkovitches. As war breaks out, she returns with them to Kravonia. There, Sophy meets Crown Prince...