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1930s drama set in the horse racing world starring Derrick De Marney, Marius Goring and Nancy Burne. Headstrong young nobleman Bill Urquhart (De Marney) gets himself in trouble when he helps out a friend who has a gambling debt. Disowned by his father, Bill pitches up at the stables of Stella Barrington (Burne), a young woman who has inherited her father's horses but struggles to make ends meet in the face of unfair competition. Can Bill save the day and get the girl?
Double bill of British comedies from the 1930s. In 'The Black Hand Gang' (1930) Wee Georgie Wood stars as Georgie Robinson, the rich leader of a gang of young boys. When Georgie's home is invaded by burglars it is up to The Black Hand Gang to fight them off. 'Old Spanish Customers' (1932) follows Bill and Martha Smithers (Leslie Fuller and Drusilla Wills) on a hilarious voyage to Spain.
A semi-documentary based on the lives of two friends living on the remote Shetland island of Foula. It shows their struggles with the harshness of isolation and the everyday hurdles of love and survival. In 1978 director Michael Powell added a new (colour) introduction and epilogue to the film which was re-titled `Return to the Edge of the World'.
A semi-documentary based on the lives of two friends living on the remote Shetland island of Foula. It shows their struggles with the harshness of isolation and the everyday hurdles of love and survival. In 1978 director Michael Powell added a new (colour) introduction and epilogue to the film which was re-titled `Return to the Edge of the World'.
Loretta Young and Richard Greene star in this drama directed by John Ford. When a British Indian Army colonel is discharged after an order he gave resulted in the massacre of his troops, his four sons - an Oxford student, a London barrister, an aviator and an attache at the British Embassy in Washington - try their best to support him and tell him that he's been the victim of a conspiracy. Can the sons find out why their father was set up and ultimately prove his innocence?
Triple bill of war dramas set at sea. In 'For Those in Peril' (1943), Pilot Officer Rawlings (Ralph Michael) is turned down by the RAF for air service on medical grounds and instead joins Air Sea Rescue, helping to pull downed Allied airmen out of the sea. Rawlings is initially resentful of his new job, but gradually comes to appreciate its importance. When the crew of a Boston bomber become stranded at sea in a dinghy, Rawlings and his colleagues become involved in a race against time - and the elements - to save their lives. 'San Demetrio, London' (1943), set in 1940 during the battle of the Atlantic, is based on a true story. The crew of the petrol tanker San Demetrio are left with a near impossible task when she is torpedoed by the Germans. The crew are forced to abandon ship in three lifeboats. Two are picked up by other ships in the convoy, but the third drifts for days until its crew spies the burning San Demetrio on the horizon. Do they board the ship, try to put out its fires and get it back to English shores or do they stay in the drifting lifeboat in the hope of being rescued? In 'The Cruel Sea' (1953), based on the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat, World War Two Lt. Commander Ericson (Jack Hawkins) has already lost one ship to an enemy attack when he is given command of the frigate Saltash Castle. A subsequent confrontation in the North Atlantic tests Ericson's leadership to the limit once again, as he risks sacrificing the lives of his crew for the greater good.
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