It was 1935. Only nineteen years old, Pat Jackson, who was assistant to the film’s co-director, Harry Watt, was waiting for the Night Mail with Watt and the cameraman Jonah Jones on the summit of Beattock. Over a thousand feet above sea level, the hill was the highest point on the West Coast Main Line. Pat – who would go on to direct the great wartime drama documentary Western Approaches – described the occasion in his memoirs: “It was cold, I remember, and we played ru

It was a brilliant, shocking poster that made you sit up if not lose your head. The trouble was that eight thousand miles away British soldiers were now in serious risk of losing theirs as the Falklands War approached its climax. The release of Britannia Hospital at the end of May 1982 could not have been more disastrously timed. In an effort to limit the damage, the producer and distributor of the film, EMI, ordered that all copies of the poster be destroyed. A dull, typogr

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