The basis for the action movie was formed from a variety of sources all of which pre-dated the invention of cinema. It is there in the swashbuckling stories of novelists like Alexandre Dumas and Sir Walter Scott, or the heroics…

Yet during this decade there was an emergence of some of the most interesting and popular British films with the cinema-going public, offering an insight into the society and culture of this period in British history. The introduction of the…