War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from prison, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police, and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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Tag Archives: UK
London in the Raw (1965) Arnold L. Miller, David Gell, Caron Gardner, Emmett Hennessy, Documentary
‘The World’s greatest city laid bare! Thrill to its gay excitement, its bright lights, but be shocked by the sin in its shadows!’
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Blunt: The Fourth Man (1986) John Glenister, Ian Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Williams, Drama
Sir Anthony Blunt, celebrated art historian and Surveyor of the Royal family’s pictures since 1945, was exposed in 1979 as a KGB traitor in Andrew Boyle’s book The Climate of Treason.
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Primitive London (1965) Arnold L. Miller, David Gell, Bobby Chandler, Terry Dene, Documentary
Exploitation film documentary on ‘Swinging London’ as it actually happened. Arnold Louis Miller, the director of ‘Nudist Memories’, interviews mods, rockers and beatniks.
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Cage of Gold (1950) Basil Dearden, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Crime, Drama
A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her “dead” husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.
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Hedda Gabler (1981) David Cunliffe, Elizabeth Bell, Philip Bond, Kathleen Byron, Drama
Beautiful and willful Hedda Gabler, a very ambitious and controlling woman, enters into a loveless marriage with the respectable but dull George Tesman to insure herself economic and social security.
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Daughters of the Dust (1991) Julie Dash, Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Drama, Romance
Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902.
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister’s son, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests they open a café in the downstairs of her large house.
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99 Women (1969) Jesús Franco, Maria Schell, Luciana Paluzzi, Mercedes McCambridge, Crime, Drama, Adult
New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women’s sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and submitted to torture, rape and lesbianism.
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Frightmare (1974) Pete Walker, Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax, Horror
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates (Keith and Rupert Davies) were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes.
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