Sep 30th   
Red Dust** (PG)     
(Plaza Stockport)

(US 1932)
MGM.  83m. bw

A rubber plantation owner in remote Indochina is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of two very different women.
Raunchy "pre-code" jungle melodrama with some daringly risqué moments for the time including Harlow's nude bathtub scene, but there are plenty of other none-too subtle moments. The women steal the attention (where they can) from Gable at his most masculine.

Written by: John Mahin, Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by William Collison.
Producers: Hunt Stromberg, Irving Thalberg,
Director: Victor Fleming.
Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Tully Marshall, Donald Crisp, Forrester Harvey, Willie Fung.
Photography: Harold Rosson, Arthur Edeson.
Music: Domenico Savino.

Preceded by:
Pathe Pictorial  (circa 1933)
(Around the World with Pictorial Cameras [Japan} -- Jumps and Jumpers [lions] -- Aviation's Latest Wonder -- Soldier Showdown! -- Swing High, Swing Sure.)

 Sep 27th   
La Bataille de Gaulle** (15)
Part Two: J'ecris ton Nom 

GB title: De Gaulle: Liberte
(Curzon Colchester) 

A more laboured second half of the De Gaulle epic(qv), covering the later North Africa campaign to the eventual hard-fought liberation of Paris, with pausing for speeches and an uncertain grasp of whose main story we are following, whether from De Gaulle himself or the Resistance, or from General Leclerc (who takes  a strong part in the early narrative.) Cutting would help to make  the film as a whole a more digestible experience, but still as gripping, for all its lengthy double running time.; with Felix Kysyl, Pip Torrens (as Montgomery), Tom Mison (as Eden), Daniel Beits (as Eisenhower), Stephen Campbell Moore (as Harold McMillan). 
Music: Theo Casio.

Sep 16th   
Violent Playground*     
(GB 1958)   
Rank. 108m. bw

A Liverpool police detective switched to the Juvenile Prevention department suspects that a series of arsons are the work of young teenage gang leader.
Half-baked working class thriller, from the time just before the "kitchen sink" era came along. Some fine authentic locations and a tense finale, all undercut by a sanitised plot and delivery of lines in polite English accents.

Written by: James Kennaway.
Producer: Michael Relph.
Director: Basil Dearden.
Starring: Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Peter Cushing, Anne Heywood, Clifford Evans, John Slater, Moultrie Kelsall, Michael Chow, Tsai Chin, Melvyn Hayes.
Photography: Reg Wyer, Reg Johnson.
Music: Philip Green.
Editing: Arthur Stevens.

Sep 6th   
La Bataille de Gaulle** (15)
Part One: Resistance
GB title: De Gaulle: Resistance
(Picturehouse Central, London)    

(Fra/Bel/Canada 2026)
Pathe/Tf1/Belvedere. 160m. ws

After the submission of France to Germany in 1940, exiled General Charles de Gaulle vows to fight on  and lead a fledgling Free French force with some pockets of fellow resistors in Paris. 
Epic and compelling war drama with the usual variable period details taken with history (especially the American element, for once), with heightened emphasis on certain  notable events such as the siege of Bir Hakeim near Tobruk.

Written by: Antonin Baudry, Berenice Vila, based on the book "A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle" by Julian Jackson.
Producers: Axelle Boucai, Ardavan Safaee, Jerome Seydoux.
Director: Antonin Baudry.
Starring: Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale (as Churchill), Florian Lesieur, Matthieu Kassovitz (as Admiral Darlan), Niels Schneider, Thierry Lhermitte, Anamaria Vortolome, Campbell Scott (as Franklin Roosevelt).
Photography: Pierre Cottereau, Giora Bejach.
Music: Volker Bertelmann.

+ Part Two: Sep 27th