Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for “a night out” with his workmates; it turns nightmarish. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Murder at the Gallop (1963) George Pollock, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley
The old and wealthy Mr. Enderby dies of a heart attack but the ever suspicious Miss Marple has her doubts. Read More »
Take a Girl Like You (2000) Nick Hurran, Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Robert Daws
The novel opens with Jenny Bunn’s arrival at her lodging-house. Read More »
The Legacy (1978) Richard Marquand, Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing
A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow… Read More »
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Frank Launder, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. Read More »
Twelfth Night (1996) Trevor Nunn, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs
Brother and sister Viola and Sebastian, who are not only very close but look a great deal alike, are in a shipwreck, and both think the other dead. Read More »
Murder by Decree (1979) Bob Clark, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings
Sherlock Holmes investigates London’s most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. Read More »
Summertime (1955) David Lean, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
The American secretary Jane Hudson travels from Ohio to Venice. Jane is a middle-age single and lonely woman that have saved money for her dream trip. Read More »
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) Sharad Patel, Joseph Olita, Thomas Baptiste, Leonard Trolley
This biographical movie begins with a short blurb about Uganda Read More »
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) Don Sharp, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Joachim Fuchsberger
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu Read More »
Paul Temple Returns (1952) Maclean Rogers, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Grey Blake
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed “The Marquis.” Read More »
Cruel Passion (1977) Chris Boger, Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution Read More »
The Damned (1962) Joseph Losey, Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors
The middle-aged American Simon Wells sails in his boat to Weymouth and stumbles with the twenty year-old Joan on the street. Read More »
A Political Party (1934) Norman Lee, John Mills, Enid Stamp-Taylor, H.F. Maltby
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. Read More »
Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »