A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. Read More »
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Cosh Boy (1953) Lewis Gilbert, James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Read More »
A Stranger in Town (1957) George Pollock, Alex Nicol, Anne Paige, Mary Laura Wood
In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed. Read More »
The Thief of Baghdad (1978) Clive Donner, Roddy McDowall, Kabir Bedi, Frank Finlay
A resourceful thief helps a handsome Prince fight an evil wizard, and win the hand of a beautiful Princess. Read More »
Man of Violence (1970) Pete Walker, Michael Latimer, Luan Peters, Derek Aylward
A mercenary joins forces with 2 crooked cops in an attempt to steal a fortune in gold bullion from a corrupt Arab country. Read More »
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) Ken Annakin, Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox
In the infancy of aviation in 1910, a British newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross-channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. Read More »
Night Train to Paris (1964) Robert Douglas, Leslie Nielsen, Aliza Gur, Dorinda Stevens
Former OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year’s Eve by Catherine Carrel Read More »
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »
Breakout (1959) Peter Graham Scott, Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, William Lucas
A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught. Read More »
The Rake’s Progress (1945) Sidney Gilliat, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford Read More »
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter Greenaway, Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner Read More »
Prudence and the Pill (1968) Fielder Cook, Ronald Neame, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote
Prudence is on the pill; so is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Read More »
Cal (1984) Pat O’Connor, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella Read More »
Foxhole in Cairo (1960) John Llewellyn Moxey, James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Niall MacGinnis
In 1942, Rommel halts his victorious Afrika Korps and sends German agent John Eppler and radio operator Sandy to Cairo. Read More »
The Admiral’s Secret (1934) Guy Newall, Edmund Gwenn, Aubrey Mather, James Raglan
Edmund Gwenn is a retired naval officer who has acquired an old valuable relic by force. Read More »