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Tag Archives: UK
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) Ken Hughes, Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money. Read More »
The Spider and the Fly (1949) Robert Hamer, Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray
A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires Read More »
The Dark Man (1951) Jeffrey Dell, Edward Underdown, Maxwell Reed, Natasha Parry
A killer called ‘The Dark Man’ commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. Read More »
Contraband (1940) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control Read More »
Langrishe Go Down (1978) David Hugh Jones, Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Annette Crosbie
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Read More »
The Shiralee (1957) Leslie Norman, Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars
Based on a best-selling Australian novel by D’Arcy Niland, The Shiralee stars Peter Finch as an Aussie “swagman,” or poacher Read More »
Gift Horse (1952) Compton Bennett, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts
In 1940, a mothballed American destroyer is commissioned in the Royal Navy. Read More »
Above Us the Waves (1955) Ralph Thomas, John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British Navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Read More »
Station Six-Sahara (1963) Seth Holt, Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck, Ian Bannen
In the Sahara, at an oil pipeline pumping station belonging to Medina Oil Company, five technicians man the facility. Read More »
Extreme Ops (2002) Christian Duguay, Rufus Sewell, Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
A film crew travels to the Austrian Alps near the (former) Yugoslav border to film three extreme sports Read More »
The Citadel (1938) King Vidor, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson
Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town Read More »
The Mark of Cain (1947) Brian Desmond Hurst, Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. Read More »
The Big Swap (1998) Niall Johnson, Anthony Edridge, Sorcha Brooks, Richard Cherry
Prompted by one of their number, who had previously indulged, five mature thirty-something couples Read More »
For Them That Trespass (1949) Alberto Cavalcanti, Stephen Murray, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. Read More »