A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Read More »
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Beyond the Curtain (1960) Compton Bennett, Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring
East German refugee Karen finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight Read More »
Daybreak (1948) Compton Bennett, Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed
A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love Read More »
That Forsyte Woman (1949) Compton Bennett, Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Read More »
King Solomon’s Mines (1950) Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton, Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson
Guide Allan Quatermain helps a young lady (Beth) find her lost husband somewhere in Africa. Read More »
My Own True Love (1948) Compton Bennett, Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas, Wanda Hendrix
An Englishman’s (Melvyn Douglas) fiancee (Phyllis Calvert) comforts his son (Philip Friend) who has lost a leg and a family in World War II. 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 »
The Flying Scot (1957) Compton Bennett, Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford, Crime, Drama
Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on ‘The Flying Scotsman’ passenger train. Read More »
Desperate Moment (1953) Compton Bennett, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War
In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. Read More »
The Seventh Veil (1945) Compton Bennett, James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Drama, Music
One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a local bridge. She is rescued and taken back to the hospital and undergoes psychological treatment by Dr. Larsen. Larsen, desperately wants to know the events and persons who drove her to this state and help her. He makes Francesca talk about her past – a past with a controlling guardian, Nicholas, no friends, kept apart from the man she loved and forced to practice the piano 5-6 hours a day.
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