In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition. During the night, noise conspires to keep him awake and the historian is astonished to come face to face with door number 13. Continuing his work, a history of a reformation era witchcraft scandal emerges. The nocturnal disturbances escalate, leading Anderson with no choice but to open the door to room number 13...

With only an oversized shirt, black tights, and a chair, Elaine Stritch performs her autobiographical one-woman show at London's Old Vic Theatre featuring tales and songs from her 50-plus-year career on stage and screen.

This is a film based on the life of the Wolfenden family and some charachters in the city of Reading, England. Wolfenden whoose son, Jeremy, professess to being Queer, is asked to chair a Home Office committee to look at the laws on Prostitution and Homosexuality. The story follows at least three story arcs. ONE. Wolfenden starting up the committee and dealing with the people who are interviewed, then coming to a decision about the laws surrounding prostitution and homosexuality. TWO.Jeremy Wolfenden's life as a young homosexual man in 1950s Britain. His arrival and sucess at Oxford, his stresses as a 'queer' man and the debates between him and his Father. THREELabourer, Charlie Bollard's relationship with '23 men' and particularly with Parker the baker with whom he becomes obsessed. Bollard is arrested and charged with 'offences' and sees his former partners sentenced to 'an average of 3 and a half years in goal'. The intertwining stories tell the story of the what it was like to be homosexual in 1950s England.