A 17th Century poet and philosopher, aesthetically challenged by way of a gargantuan hooter, nobly puts his own feelings on hold to help his friend woo the woman that he himself is in love with. Wrongly believing that we ladies are fickle enough to be swayed by devastatingly good looks, Cyrano hides his nasum under a bushel and lets the intellectually and emotionally inferior mate take the credit for his silver tongue. Michael Gordon's adaptation of the classic French novel won Jose Ferrer an Os find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...