The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Read More »
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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Robert Hamer, Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson
In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist’s assistant Read More »
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Read More »
To Paris with Love (1955) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray
A middle-aged widower (Guinness) and his son go to Paris on vacation and try to find wives for each other in this charming romantic comedy. 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 Scapegoat (1959) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
On a vacation in France from his nondescript job and life, John Barratt encounters a titled but impoverished French nobleman who looks exactly like him. Read More »
School for Scoundrels (1960) Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Comedy
Endlessly finding himself on the wrong end of a situation, businessman Henry Palfrey seeks help at the College of Lifemanship run by the cunning Mr. Potter. Read More »
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Crime, Drama
Slice of life drama following the lives of various people in London’s East End on a wet Sunday. Read More »
His Excellency (1952) Robert Hamer, Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Comedy
An ex dock-worker is appointed governor of a Mediterranean colony of the British Empire. Read More »
The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) Charles Frend, Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Drama
The story of a woman who loved three men for their different ways and discovered after many a heartache, that her first love was also her true love. Edward the Peacemaker was on the throne of England when Joanna Godden’s father died and bequeathed a large farm on the Romney Marsh of Kent. Beautiful, impetuous, self-willed, Joanna determined to defy convention and – a mere woman – run the farm herself. Her decision outraged the whole shire – not least her farmer neighbour Arthur Alce.
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The Long Memory (1953) Robert Hamer, John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
A man seeks revenge but will he destroy himself in the process? After a long jail term for a crime he did not commit, a man is torn between revenge (which will probably destroy him) or making a new life for himself.
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The Detective / Father Brown (1954) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Amateur detective Father Ignatius Brown defies his Bishop and decides to transport to Rome a holy relic from his church – a cross that once belonged to St. Augustin – rather than allow the more elaborate plans to proceed. On the channel crossing he becomes suspicious of a fellow traveler, a Mr Dobson, whom Brown quickly determines is not the automobile salesman he claims to be. He does befriend another priest whom he takes into his confidence but soon realizes that his suspicions should have been reversed. The fake priest is in fact Gustave Flambeau a professional art thief and an expert at disguise. After he gets away with the cross, Brown refuses to work with the police, insisting that he wants to save the man’s soul, not put him in prison. With the assistance of his friend Lady Warren, Father Brown sets a trap for Flambeau but Brown realizes that his work is only just beginning.
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