Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel – stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow. Read More »
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The Echo Murders (1945) John Harlow, David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling
The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner Read More »
Dangerous Cargo (1954) John Harlow, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling, Karel Stepanek
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks Read More »
This Was Paris (1942) John Harlow, Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, War, Drama
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other. Read More »
Headline (1943) John Harlow, David Farrar, Anne Crawford, John Stuart, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Headline serves as a vehicle for handsome David Farrar, who in 1943 was Britain’s fastest-rising leading man. Farrar is cast as Broogle, a crime reporter who’ll do anything-ANYTHING-for a story. When the wife of the publisher disappears after witnessing a murder, Broogle ignores Scotland Yard’s warnings to “lay off” and endeavors to solve the mystery himself. The film’s best performance is rendered by BBC radio favorite Richard Goolden, cast as a self-styled “psychological” detective. While genuine journalists howled at the innacuracies in Headline, audiences ate it up.
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