What's the best English film ever made

A.� Empire film magazine has just published the results of a survey carried out to mark St George's Day on 23 April and the number one all time best English film was The Full Monty, according to readers.

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Q. Who directed that and what's it all about

A.� The 1997 film was directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy. It was set in working class Sheffield and followed the lives of redundant steel-workers. It became the most popular film ever made in the UK and was nominated three times for an Oscar. It has also inspired a Broadway musical in New York.� It cost just over �3.94 million to make, but has made over �294 million at the box office.

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Q.� What about the other winners in the list

A.� The list produced some surprising and not so surprising runners and riders:

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• 2nd - The Italian Job, made in 1969, starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Benny Hill.
• 3rd - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, this 1998 hit was directed by Guy Ritchie, who last year married Madonna.
• 4th - Withnail and I, which starred Richard E Grant and Paul McGann
• 5th - The Third Man. This Oscar-winning script was adapted from Graham Greene's novel of the same name and set in post-war Vienna. It starred Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.
• 6th - Four Weddings and a Funeral. This blockbuster affair was the launchpad for stars Hugh Grant, John Hannah and Kristen Scott Thomas. It was directed by Mike Newell.
• 7th - Get Carter. The 1971 archtypal British gangster movie, set in Newcastle, starred Michael Caine and Britt Eckland. Not a lot of people knew that.
• 8th -�The Ladykillers. This darkly comic film with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellars, was one of the rare Ealing comedies shot in techicolour.

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By Katharine MacColl