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A professor and three children go to South America to look for a
missing sea captain. They encounter many obstacles and mishaps in
their search. Based on a children's book by Jules Verne.
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The March Hare (DVD)
Derrick Demarney, Ivan Samson, Peggy Cummins, Cyril Cusack, Terence Morgan, …
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George More O'Ferrall directs this comedy set around the world of
horse racing. Terence Morgan stars as Sir Charles Hare, a wealthy
Irishman who loses a bet and is forced to give up his estate,
including his prized racehorse, to tough bookie Hardwicke (Ivan
Samson).
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Wonderful Things (DVD)
Frankie Vaughan, Jocelyn Lane, Jeremy Spenser, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jean Dawnay, …
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Herbert Wilcox directs this 1950s comedy starring Frankie Vaughan
and Jocelyn Lane. The film opens in Gibraltar, where the youthful
fisherman Carmello (Vaughan) struggles to earn enough money from
his trade to offer a viable future to his highly-strung fiancée.
Carmello decides to relocate to England, where he believes he will
be able to earn enough to return to Gibraltar as a man of means.
However, when he falls head over heels in love with an English rose
his plans are complicated...
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His and Hers (DVD)
Kenneth Williams, Francesca Annis, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kenneth Connor, Joan Sims, …
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Brian Desmond Hurst directs this 1960s comedy starring Kenneth
Williams, Joan Sims, Oliver Reed and Francesca Annis. Reggie Blake
(Terry-Thomas) is an author familiar with the dictum 'write about
what you know'. Since his editor is insistent that he wants
interesting and diverse material, Reggie is forced to put himself
in a number of bizarre situations - such as wandering into the
desert to learn the culture of a tribe native to the area.
Unfortunately, these activities displease his wife Fran (Janette
Scott) and a great deal of domestic strife ensues...
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His and Hers (Blu-ray disc)
Oliver Reed, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Francesca Annis, Wilfrid Hyde-White, …
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Brian Desmond Hurst directs this 1960s comedy starring Kenneth
Williams, Joan Sims, Oliver Reed and Francesca Annis. Reggie Blake
(Terry-Thomas) is an author familiar with the dictum 'write about
what you know'. Since his editor is insistent that he wants
interesting and diverse material, Reggie is forced to put himself
in a number of bizarre situations - such as wandering into the
desert to learn the culture of a tribe native to the area.
Unfortunately, these activities displease his wife Fran (Janette
Scott) and a great deal of domestic strife ensues...
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My Teenage Daughter (DVD)
Sylvia Syms, Wanda Ventham, Kenneth Haigh, Josephine Fitzgerald, Anna Neagle, …
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Herbert Wilcox directs this classic British drama starring Anna
Neagle and Sylvia Syms. The film follows Valerie Carr (Neagle), a
widowed mother, who struggles to keep her 17-year-old daughter
Janet (Syms) under control and out of trouble. However, with Janet
falling under the influence of Tony Ward Black (Kenneth Haigh), an
apparently wealthy and carefree young man, Valerie has her work cut
out for her...
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The Sandwich Man (DVD)
Michael Bentine, Peter Arne, Max Bacon, Alfie Bass, Dora Bryan, …
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A look at London in the swinging 60s through the eyes of a humble
sandwich board man (Michael Bentine). Throughout the course of the
day he travels London and meets many different types of people
played by top comedy names of the time including Alfie Bass,
Terry-Thomas, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors, Wilfred Hyde-White,
Warren Mitchell, Norman Wisdom and Ian Hendry.
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The Browning Version (DVD)
Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Robert Patrick, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard, …
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Michael Redgrave stars in this classic adaptation of Terence
Rattigan's play. Public schoolmaster Crocker-Harris (Redgrave) has
become a bitter, disillusioned man. Stuck in a loveless marriage
with a wife who openly cheats on him, he has long since lost the
enthusiasm he once showed for his career and his pupils. 'The
Crock', as he is known within the school, has become a figure of
disdain among the students whose life he has made a misery. When
ill health forces him to resign his long-standing post, a simple
act of kindness from one boy has a profound effect on the seemingly
heartless master.
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On the Fiddle (DVD)
Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King, …
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Cyril Frankel directs this 1960s comedy starring Sean Connery in
one of his final pre-Bond roles. It is World War II and layabout
Cockney Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch) finds himself forced to enlist
in the war effort after one of his schemes backfires. In the RAF he
strikes up a friendship with Pedlar Pascoe (Connery) and the pair
hatch a cunning plan to avoid being sent to the frontlines. How
will they react when the peril of war finally catches up with them?
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Outcast of the Islands (DVD)
Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Kerima, Wendy Hiller, Robert Morley, …
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Trevor Howard is a clerk in a South Seas trading post who gets
involved in a smuggling plot via a secret sea route, eventually
betraying his employer and destroying himself in the process. The
film confronts the core theme of Conrad's novel - the battles of
the noble and the ignoble. It enjoyed enormous publicity - mainly
in the form of Kerima, the sultry starlet who brings the downfall
of the shiftless trader, Howard.
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The Rainbow Jacket (DVD)
Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Robert Morley, …
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Basil Dearden directs this Ealing Studios racing drama. Disgraced
jockey Sam (Bill Owen) has been banned from racing after taking a
bribe. Unwilling to leave the racing world behind, he takes on a
young protege, Georgie Crain (Fella Edmonds), and trains him up to
be the next champion. But as financial pressures loom, do Sam and
Georgie have what it takes to make it against all odds? Robert
Morley and Honor Blackman co-star.
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Our Man in Marrakesh (DVD)
Herbert Lom, Tony Randall, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Le Mesurier, Senta Berger, …
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Classic British spy thriller directed by Don Sharp. Tony Randall
stars as American tourist Andrew Jessel, who, while holidaying in
Morocco, becomes embroiled in a web of suspicion and intrigue after
checking into a hotel in Marrakesh and finding a dead body. Might
Kyra Stanovy (Senta Berger), a woman who convinces him not to call
the police, have the answers?
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Duel in the Jungle (DVD)
David Farrar, George Coulouris, Jeanne Crain, Patrick Barr, Dana Andrews, …
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George Marshall directs this 1950s British adventure in which an
American insurance investigator sets out to learn the truth behind
the disappearance of a diamond broker. Scott Walters (Dana Andrews)
is in London on business when he hears that one of his firm's
high-profile clients Perry Henderson (David Farrar) has died while
diving for diamonds off the coast of Africa. Suspicious both by
nature and professional obligation, Walters visits Perry's widow
Marian (Jeanne Crain) in search of further information. Ultimately,
the pair journey to Africa to continue the investigation, where
matters become very murky and dangerous indeed...
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Two Way Stretch (DVD)
Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Liz Fraser, Beryl Reid, …
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In Huntleigh prison, a group of cell mates (Peter Sellers, Bernard
Cribbins and David Lodge) plan the perfect burglary. By escaping
the day before their release, then breaking back in again, they
will have the perfect alibi when they rob a maharajah's palace of
its diamonds - they will seemingly never have left their cell.
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The Passionate Friends (DVD)
Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel Dean, …
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David Lean directed this tale based on the novel by H.G. Wells in
which a woman (Ann Todd) meets and marries an older man (Claude
Rains) but then bumps into her former lover (Trevor Howard) and
finds her passions re-ignited.
Six classic movies starring Margaret Lockwood. 'The Wicked Lady'
(1945) is set during the reign of King Charles II. Lockwood stars
as Lady Skelton, an aristocrat who attempts to relieve the tedium
of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Lady
Skelton soon finds herself caught up in a tangled web of romance,
danger, and jealousy. In 'Love Story' (1944), Lissa (Lockwood)
discovers she only has a short time to live, so travels to Cornwall
for a final fling. While there, she falls in love with young
mineral prospector, Kit (Stewart Granger). However, the course of
true love does not run smoothly. In 'Bank Holiday' (1938), a group
of people set off on an August bank holiday, including a raucous
Cockney family, a would-be beauty queen, and two young lovers -
whose relationship starts to come apart when one has to deal with a
bereavement at the hospital where she works. In 'Give Us the Moon'
(1944), a young man, Sascha (Vic Oliver), joins a group called 'The
Elephants' whose principle is to abide by a complete disregard for
work. However chaos ensues when the group decides to help run the
hotel owned by Sascha's father. In 'Highly Dangerous' (1950), when
British Intelligence discovers that an Iron Curtain country is
developing insects as weapons, they dispatch entomologist Frances
Gray (Lockwood) to get into the country and collect specimens.
However her cover is almost immediately blown on her arrival and
her contact is murdered. Finally, in 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938),
when the elderly Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty) goes missing on a
train bound for England, her friend Iris Henderson (Lockwood) sets
out to find her. However, Iris' attempts are immediately frustrated
by her fellow passengers, who question whether Miss Froy ever even
existed. Only music scholar Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) is
prepared to believe Iris, and together they set about getting to
the bottom of the mystery.
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Ten Little Indians (DVD)
Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, …
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The third screen version of Agatha Christie's 1939 whodunnit,
featuring a host of great British screen actors including Dennis
Price, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Stanley Holloway, and, strangely
enough, the American teen pop idol, Fabian. Ten strangers, who all
harbour their own guilty secret, are lured to a remote mansion on
the Austrian Alps in the middle of winter. They have been invited
by a mysterious host (whom none of them has met) called Mr U.N.
Owen (the uncredited voice of Christopher Lee), and it's not long
before they all start popping their clogs, one by one. It soon
becomes apparent that one of their party is the killer, but which
one?
Four films based on the literary works of Graham Greene. In 'The
Third Man' (1949), writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in
war-torn Vienna to take up a job with his friend Harry Lime (Orson
Welles). He is informed that Lime died a week previously in a car
accident, but upon investigating further discovers that the
circumstances of Lime's death are shrouded in confusion. Martins
begins to wonder just how well he knew his old friend after the
head of local military police, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard),
convinces him that Lime was in fact a black market drug racketeer
responsible for many deaths. In 'Brighton Rock' (1947), 16-year-old
gangster Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) uses young waitress
Rose Brown (Carol Marsh) as an alibi after commiting a murder at
the race track. Worried that she will give him away, Pinkie marries
Rose. However, his subsequent attempts to drive her to the point of
suicide do not go according to plan. 'The Heart of the Matter'
(1953) stars Trevor Howard as Scobie, an assistant police
commissioner posted in Sierra Leone in World War 2. Exploring
familiar Greene themes such as religion and work politics, the film
co-stars Elizabeth Allan and Maria Schell as the wronged wife and
the hard-done-by mistress. 'The Fallen Idol' (1948) is an
award-winning adaptation of Greene's short story 'The Basement
Room', and is told primarily from a child's perspective. Philippe
(Bobby Henrey) is the young son of a diplomat who idolises Baines
(Ralph Richardson), his father's butler. When Baines' wife is found
murdered and Baines is implicated, Philippe does everything he can
to point the investigation away from the butler. In doing so he
makes matters worse - and also discovers that his hero is not the
man he thought he was.
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The Third Man (DVD)
Alida Valli, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Annie Rosar, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, …
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Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles
in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in
post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp
Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take
up a job with his old acquaintance, Harry Lime (Welles). When he is
informed that Lime died a week previously in a car accident,
Martins is intrigued by inconsistencies in the accounts of the
death and decides that he can't leave the city without
investigating matters further. As a consequence, he finds himself
drawn into a web of intrigue and searching for the elusive 'third
man' who was at the scene of Lime's death. When the head of the
local military police, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), informs him
that Lime was involved in black market drug distribution, the plot
thickens even further...
The first four films from the hugely popular 'Carry On' series. In
'Carry On Sergeant' (1958), a sergeant (William Hartnell) takes a
bet that the last recruits he trains will win the 'Star Squad'
award. The sergeant's inept young charges include Bob Monkhouse,
Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor. In 'Carry On
Teacher' (1959), trouble erupts at a secondary school when
inspectors arrive to evaluate the teachers' work. A group of pupils
(led by a youthful Richard O'Sullivan) who don't want their teacher
transferred to a different job play up. In 'Carry On Nurse' (1959),
the patients in a men's hospital ward decide to revolt against the
staff, as led by the indomitable Matron (Hattie Jacques). Finally,
in 'Carry On Constable' (1959), police sergeant Wilkins (Sid James)
has a new batch of dubious recruits on his hands, whose idea of
covert surveillance involves dressing up in drag.
Collection of ten classic films from the award-winning British
director. In 'The Sound Barrier' (1952), Ralph Richardson stars as
an aircraft manufacturer whose all-consuming passion with making
the ultimate supersonic jet kills both his son and son-in-law and
almost destroys him and the rest of his family. In 'Hobson's
Choice' (1953), Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles
Laughton) keeps a tight rein on his three daughters until his
eldest, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), marries his assistant, Willie
Mossop (John Mills), and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To
Hobson's consternation, Willie has soon become his father-in-law's
main business rival. In 'Blithe Spirit' (1945), cynical writer,
Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison), asks a medium (Margaret
Rutherford) to hold a seance in his house so he can collect
material for his latest book. No one is more surprised than the
medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of Condomine's
first wife (Kay Hammond). The ghost refuses to go away, preferring
to taunt her less sophisticated replacement (Constance Cummings).
In 'Brief Encounter' (1945), a respectable, happily married doctor
(Trevor Howard) comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife
(Celia Johnson) when a passing train blows cinder into her eye.
Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and
railway cafe of a small English town. In 'Great Expectations'
(1946), orphan, Pip (Anthony Wager), befriends an escaped convict
before being elevated to higher circles as the companion of Miss
Havisham and her niece, Estella (Jean Simmons), with whom the boy
quickly falls in love. When the adult Pip (Mills) discovers a
mysterious benefactor has paved the way for him to become a
gentleman, he assumes Miss Havisham is responsible. In 'Oliver
Twist' (1948), Oliver (John Howard Davis) is a young orphan boy who
is expelled from the workhouse run by Mr Bumbel (Francis L.
Sullivan). After becoming an apprentice to an undertaker, Oliver
decides to run away to London, only to meet the Artful Dodger
(Anthony Newley) and fall amongst his gang of thieves, led by the
scheming Fagin (Alec Guinness). In 'Madeleine' (1949), Madeleine
(Ann Todd) is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian
Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman, Emile
L'Anglier (Ivan Desny), without her father's knowledge. Meanwhile,
Madeleine's father insists on her seeing various suitors. When
Madeleine becomes engaged to William Minnoch (Norman Wooland),
Emile threatens to reveal their relationship. 'The Passionate
Friends' (1944) is an episodic tale of an average working class
family in the interwar years. The story traces the melodrama caused
by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of
women's liberation and political instability in the country during
the General Strike. It highlights the fact that these internal
wranglings are all happening in one house in an average street, and
that each average house has its own dramatic stories to tell.
Finally, 'In Which We Serve' (1942) is a World War II drama about a
destroyer, told through flashbacks and the reminiscences of the
surviving crew after their beloved ship is torpedoed.
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Carry On Nurse (DVD)
Shirley Eaton, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Wilfrid Hyde-White, …
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This was the second 'Carry On' film, and a hit in the United
States. The patients in a men's hospital ward decide to revolt
against the staff, as led by the indomitable Matron (Hattie
Jacques). Troublesome patients include Kenneth Williams, Leslie
Phillips, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey. Producer Peter Rogers
was offered a five-movie deal on the strength of this film's
success.
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