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In this classic Kipling
tale, Toomai (Sabu) and
his elephant Kala Nag,
accompany his father on a
government expedition.
When his father is killed
by a tiger, Toomai is
sent home, but comes to
Kala Nag's rescue when
the elephant is sentenced
to death for throwing his
new driver. Toomai and
Kala Nag escape into the
wild, where they enjoy
many adventures and
become heroes.
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Yorkshire miner turned
rugby player Frank Machin
(Richard Harris) has a
number of women chasing
after him, but only has
eyes for his widowed
landlady, Mrs Hammond
(Rachel Roberts).
However, she remains
resolutely unresponsive
to his advances.
Meanwhile, Frank's
rebelliousness at the
club is tolerated as long
as he is successful on
the pitch, but as he
comes to appreciate the
emptiness of his
existence his frustration
begins to mount.
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John Mills stars as
Alfred Polly, recently
sacked from his job he
inherits money from his
father, thus enabling
him to take a bike tour
of the country. He falls
in love but it all goes
wrong so Alfred ends up
marrying his cousin,
Miriam. They set up a
draper's shop in a small
town. Miriam sours, they
face bankruptcy and
boredom and Mr Polly
comes to hate his life.
In utter despair he
decides to commit
suicide, but even this
goes wrong and he is
forced to take to the
road again.
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Orson Welles' tale of
Nazi war criminals hidden
away in Smalltown, USA.
Wilson (Edward G
Robinson), an officer
with the Allied War
Crimes Commission, is on
the trail of Franz
Kindler, one of the Nazi
leaders responsible for
the holocaust. Following
another suspected Nazi to
Harper, Connecticut,
Wilson thinks he
recognises Kindler in the
person of Charles Rankin
(Orson Welles), a local
man with plans to restore
the town clock to its
former glory. Wilson
stays around to
investigate, and
meanwhile, Kindler's
fiancée Mary
Longstreet (Loretta
Young), becomes
increasingly suspicious
of her future husband's
strange behaviour.
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Classic thriller from
Alfred Hitchcock, made
shortly before he moved
to America. When the
elderly Miss Froy (Dame
May Whitty) goes missing
on a train bound for
England, her friend Iris
Henderson (Margaret
Lockwood) sets out to
find her. However,
Iris's attempts are
immediately frustrated by
her fellow passengers,
who question whether Miss
Froy ever even existed.
Only music scholar
Gilbert Redman (Michael
Redgrave) is prepared to
believe Iris, and
together they set about
getting to the bottom of
the mystery.
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Dirk Bogarde stars as a
Q.C. with a past he has
tried to bury. Now
married, he has tried to
forget a homosexual
affair, but finds he
cannot escape it when he
receives a phone call
from his former lover.
His lover, Jack Barret
(Peter McEnery), has
been arrested by police
for theft, but the
police found that he has
no money to his name and
have come to the
assumption that he is
being blackmailed. When
Bogarde refuses to speak
to him Barret commits
suicide. Opening himself
up to legal proceedings,
Bogarde decides to
prosecute the
blackmailers himself.
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Alfred Hitchcock directs
the first of his classic
British spy thrillers.
While holidaying in the
Swiss Alps with their
daughter Betty, English
couple Bob (Leslie Banks)
and Jill Lawrence (Edna
Best) are befriended by
Frenchman Louis Bernard
(Pierre Fresnay). When he
is shot by international
spies, Louis warns Jill
with his dying breath
that his killers intend
to assassinate a leading
diplomat in Britain.
However, before Jill and
Bob can inform the
police, Betty is
kidnapped by the spies
who warn the couple that
unless they maintain
their silence they will
never see their daughter
again. Peter Lorre makes
his English-speaking
debut as the charming but
psychotic kidnapper,
Abbott. Hitchcock later
decided to produce a
big-budget, colour
remake of the film with
James Stewart and Doris
Day.
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Box set of films starring
Paul Robeson, the actor,
athlete, singer and
civil rights activist,
who could sing and speak
in more than twenty
languages and was a huge
role model for African
Americans during the
1920s and '30s. In 'Body
and Soul' (1925), a
dissolute, venal black
preacher (Robeson) shows
up in a seedy speakeasy
full of criminals and
cardsharps, then appears
to be trying to dupe a
pious mother (Julia
Theresa Russell) into
marrying off her daughter
(Mercedes Gilbert). In
'Sanders of the River'
(1935), RG Sanders
(Leslie Banks) has
established peace in the
river district of West
Africa where he is a
British Resident
Commissioner. His
probationary chief,
Bosambo (Robeson), uses
Sanders' orders to free a
slave convoy. 'Song of
Freedom' (1936) tells the
story of a successful
British concert singer
(Robeson) who discovers
he is descended from a
West African queen whose
tribe is now leaderless.
He goes to Africa where
he is met with hostility
- can he win their hearts
and minds?In the musical,
'Big Fella' (1937), a
Marseille dock worker
(Robeson) befriends a
small boy (Eldon Gorst)
who has lost his parents
after arriving on an
ocean liner. Can he
reunite the young lad
with his mother and
father? In 'King
Solomon's Mines' (1937),
fortune hunter Patrick
O'Brien (Arthur Sinclair)
is on a trek across the
desert in hope of finding
the fabled diamond mines
of Solomon. His daughter
(Anna Lee) persuades
hunter Allan Quartermain
(Cedric Hardwicke) to
lead a party to rescue
him. Robeson plays the
O'Brien's guide, Umbopa.
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Classic British adventure
story of Harry Feversham
(John Clements), a
British officer, who
resigns his commission on
the eve of a battle in
the Sudan. He is then
given four white feathers
by his friends and
fiancée as a
symbol of cowardice.
Determined to win back
his honour, Feversham
exposes himself to
hardship while disguised
as a Sudanese in an
attempt to aid his
comrades. Directed by
Zoltan Korda, this was
the fourth film, but
first sound version, of
the tale.
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British comedy-thriller
in the Ealing mode. After
25 years of army service,
Colonel Hyde's (Jack
Hawkins) unblemished
career ends abrubtly when
he is retired. However,
before leaving he steals
some information, and,
once outside, puts
together a top team of
ex-army gents (all
experts in their own
field), and trains them
for a meticulously
planned bank job,
'Operation Golden
Fleece'.
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A lively biopic of French
artist Toulouse Lautrec,
directed by John Huston.
Deformed in early age
when his legs stop
growing, dwarfish
Parisian Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose
Ferrer, who also plays
Lautrec's father) arrives
in Paris during the 1890s
and becomes obsessed with
the dancers at the
infamous Moulin Rouge
club. Due to his
deformities he is
rejected by most women,
so he seeks solace in
cognac and women of
disrepute and decides
that he is better off
becoming 'a painter of
the gutter'. However, he
goes on to become one of
the great masters of
Impressionism.
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Celebrated for his
suspense-packed
thrillers, macabre plots
and endings with a twist,
Alfred Hitchcock, born
in London's East End in
1899, is one of cinema's
greatest auteurs. He
directed over 60 films
throughout his career and
this unique box set
contains ten of his most
significant pre-war
British films, from his
rarely seen 1925 silent
The Pleasure Garden
through to landmarks such
as Sabotage, The 39
Steps, The Lady Vanishes
and Jamaica Inn. It was
these films that would
pave his way to success
in Hollywood.
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Classic crime drama.
During a friendly charity
match between Arsenal and
amateur side the Trojans,
the Trojans' key striker
Jack Dyce (Anthony
Bushell) mysteriously
collapses in full view of
the capacity crowd. When
it is discovered that
Dyce has been poisoned,
Inspector Slade (Leslie
Banks) of Scotland Yard
is called in to
investigate. At first
unable to find a motive,
when another murder is
discovered, Slade has to
work fast to track down
the killer.
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A classic Hitchcock
chiller based on the
novel by Joseph Conrad.
In Thirties London,
unbeknown to his wife
Sylvia (Sylvia Sidney),
cinema manager Karl
Verloc (Oscar Homolka) is
acting as a paid
saboteur. After Karl's
cutting off of London's
electricity supply fails
to create the havoc his
employers hoped for,
Karl is charged with
delivering a bomb to
Piccadilly Circus.
However, the police are
already on his trail.
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BAFTA award-winning film
based on Nevil Shute's
best-selling novel. A
group of British POW
women are led through the
Malayan jungle by the
Japanese during World War
2. As a group they come
to terms with the
hardships they have to
endure and are befriended
by an Australian POW who
dreams of returning to
his home town, Alice
Springs. Later made into
a television mini-series.
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World War Two era
screwball comedy from
'The Crazy Gang'. The
trio of double-acts,
here playing the 'Six
Wonder Boys', are lured
to Alaska after reading a
40-year-old newspaper
telling of the goldrush.
Finding they're too late,
they hook up with a
local beauty who's
grandfather is searching
for a long-lost crock of
gold. As they set off in
search of the gold
however, the local
villains plan a surprise.
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Michael Caine plays
Cockney secret service
man Harry Palmer in the
first of a trilogy of
1960s spy capers. Here
Harry tracks down a
missing scientist, only
to discover that one of
his own superiors is a
double agent. The film's
sequels were 'Funeral in
Berlin' (1966) and
'Billion Dollar Brain'
(1967).
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Anthony Asquith directs
the first screen
adaptation of Oscar
Wilde's classic comedy.
Algernon Moncrieff
(Michael Denison) has
discovered that he has a
secret in common with his
friend Jack Worthing
(Michael Redgrave) - they
both use alter-egos when
in a tight spot. However,
when Algernon decides to
pose as Jack's alter-ego
- a brother from London -
for a weekend in the
country, he finds that
Jack's cousin Cicely
(Dorothy Tutin) has
developed an infatuation
with the mysterious
brother; and now she can
meet him. Meanwhile,
Algernon's cousin
Gwendolyne (Joan
Greenwood) is also
staying for the weekend
and knows Jack as his
alter-ego. Confused?
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An early James Bond
imitator, although the
hero never uses a gun.
After the brutal murder
of two British agents in
Berlin, secret agent
Quiller (George Segal) is
assigned by his boss Pol
(Alec Guiness) to West
Berlin where he must
uncover the operations of
the mysterious neo-Nazi
organisation believed
responsible for the
murders. He is kidnapped
by the group, after a
night with a beautiful
teacher, but later set
free in the hope that he
will lead them to his
superior.
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Clarissa befriends
impoverished stunner
Hesther who then repays
her friendship by trying
to steal Clarissa's evil
husband. An all-star cast
(Margaret Lockwood,
James Mason, Phyllis
Calvert and Stewart
Granger) bring this
elaborate, romantic,
melodramatic costume
drama to life.
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In 1940 war hits
Everytown and, with its
people unprepared, lasts
thirty years. A new
order, named 'Wings Over
the World', emerges from
the ruins, led by John
Cabal (Raymond Massey).
By 2036, Cabal's
grandson Oswald continues
his quest towards a
society ruled by
technology, but the
artistic community stage
a mass revolt.
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World War Two manic farce
courtesy of 'The Crazy
Gang'. Helping the war
effort no end, the boys
soon find themselves in
Nazi Germany after their
barrage-balloon, fish
and chip franchise is
cast adrift. Arrested and
sent to a prison camp,
they manage to
impersonate Hitler and
escape, proceeding to
create chaos and mayhem
for the poor hapless
Germans.
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Classic 'kitchen sink
drama' from the British
New Wave of the 1960s.
Joe Lampton (Laurence
Harvey) is an ambitious
young man who is tired of
slaving away at his job
and sets his sights on
his boss's daughter,
Susan, thinking she will
provide a short-cut to
the top. Hindered by his
working class background,
and frustrated by the
opposition of Susan's
parents, Joe seeks
solace in the arms of a
lonely older woman named
Alice (Simone Signoret).
But when he then
inadvertently causes
Alice's death in a road
accident, Joe's whole
world begins to unravel.
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British Army Major
Carrington (David Niven)
is brought up for a court
martial on various
charges, embezzlement
being at the top of the
list. Conducting his own
defence, Carrington sets
out to clear his name,
but faces opposition from
the unlikeliest of
quarters - his wife
(Margaret Leighton).
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The acclaimed film of
Alexandre
Dumas’
classic story, about
good and evil twin
brothers –
one is the imprisoned man
in the hideous iron mask,
the other is his
foppish, elegant twin,
King Louis XIV of France.
The man trapped by his
brother, King Louis XIV
of France, in a brutal
iron mask is Philippe
(Richard Chamberlain -
The Count of Monte
Cristo). He is the
assumed dead twin to the
King who, though the
rightful heir to the
throne, was spirited
into obscurity from birth
for political motives and
is ignorant of his true
identity. His destiny: to
assume the throne in
place of his brother,
Louis, who is
manipulated by Fouquet
(Patrick McGoohan - The
Prisoner). Both the
captain of the
Musketeers,
D’Artagnan
(Louis Jourdan -
Dracula), and Colbert
(Sir Ralph Richardson -
The Four Feathers), the
King’s
Minister for Home
Affairs, are determined
that France has her real
King, and plan to
restore the wilting
fortunes of the throne by
substituting Philippe for
the King...
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Following 'Henry V'
(1944) and 'Hamlet'
(1948), this was the
last of the three
Shakespeare films in
which Laurence Olivier
took the title role in
addition to serving as
director, producer and
writer. In this case,
the title role is that of
the cold and calculating
king, a treacherous and
untrustworthy fellow who
makes plans to kill
anyone who threatens his
position. Henry Stafford
(Ralph Richardson), the
Duke of Clarence (John
Gielgud) and Lady Anne
Neville (Claire Bloom)
are just some of those
moving in his orbit.
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A low-key treatment in
semi-documentary style
about the true story of
Allied spy Violette Szabo
(played by Virginia
McKenna), who parachuted
into Nazi-occupied Europe
during World War II.
Betrayed, she was
captured, tortured and
eventually executed by
firing squad in
Ravensbruck, France.
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Laurence Harvey, David
Tomlinson and Jimmy
Edwards star in Ken
Annakin's adaptation of
the Jerome K. Jerome
novel. Three Englishmen
decide it would be fun to
go on a boating holiday
along the Thames for a
fortnight. However,
these gents' boating
skills are notable only
for their absence, which
leads to all kinds of
riverbound mayhem,
especially when they meet
up with the lovely ladies
Sophie, Primrose and
Bluebell.
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At the outset of the
Second World War the
deserted airfield of
Halfpenny Field becomes a
bustling bomber command
centre. Peter Penrose
(John Mills) is placed
under the command of
Squadron Leader Flight
Lieutenant David Archdale
(Michael Redgrave), and
the two become great
friends. When the
Americans join the allies
in 1942, several of
their number are
stationed at the base,
and the arrival of US
pilot Johnny (Douglas
Montgomery) complicates
the established British
friendships.
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James Mason plays a
hitman in this tense,
atmospheric thriller from
the director of 'The
Third Man'. Johnny (James
Mason) is the idealistic
leader of an illegal
organisation whi is on
the run after escaping
from prison. An attempt
to hold up a linen mill
goes wrong and Johnny is
badly wounded. As the
police hunt him down,
Johnny searches for
Kathleen, the woman who
loves him.
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Charles Laughton won an
Oscar for this
performance as the
much-married monarch, in
a film which remains one
of the UK's greatest
international successes.
Picking up Henry's reign
after his betrothal to
Anne Boleyn (Merle
Oberon), wife number
two, this Alexander
Korda-directed costume
epic follows the progress
of the King's subsequent
marriages to Jane Seymour
(Wendy Barrie), Anne of
Cleves (Elsa Lanchester),
Katherine Howard (Binnie
Barnes), and the woman
who outlived him,
Catherine Parr (Everley
Gregg).
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General Fitzjohn (Peter
Sellers), a lecherous
old military man who
daily suffers the nagging
of his bedridden wife
(Margaret Leighton),
fondly remembers the time
he spent with his young
mistress Ghislaine (Dany
Robin). After many years,
Ghislaine then arrives
on his doorstep
determined to recommence
their relationship, but
the General is called
away and leaves Ghislaine
in the care of his
right-hand man. Farcical
complications ensue.
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An early film version of
Rudyard Kipling's classic
tale. Mowgli (Sabu) is a
young boy, lost in the
African jungle, who is
raised entirely by
wolves. When he wanders
into the village where he
was born, Mowgli
gradually acquires the
power of speech as a
result of meeting fellow
humans. Mahala (Patricia
O'Rourke) is entranced by
Mowgli, and persuades
him to take her deep into
the jungle, where they
discover the relics of an
ancient civilisation.
They return to Mahala's
father, Buldeo (Joseph
Calleia), bearing gold
coins, but when Mowgli
refuses to reveal where
they found them, Buldeo
tries to turn the village
against him.
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Four film versions of W.
Somerset Maugham are
brought together and
introduced by the man
himself: 'The Facts of
Life' features a young
tennis player who escapes
from his domineering
partner and absconds to
Monaco; 'The Alien Corn'
features Dirk Bogarde
playing a man with the
ambition to be a top
pianist, but he is
rejected by music
scholars; 'The Kite'
stars George Cole as a
man with an obsession for
kites and little time for
his wife; 'The Colonel's
Lady' revolves around a
stuffy colonel's search
for the man his wife has
been writing passionate
poems about.
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Animated version of
Kenneth Grahame's
much-loved children's
tale. Badger, Ratty and
Mole are the woodland and
river-dwelling creatures
who enjoy a simple,
settled existence in the
English countryside.
However, their brash and
egotistical friend,
Toad, is renowned for
his passing fads and
expensive but short-lived
enthusiasms. When Toad
develops a passion for
motor cars, his
resultant debts force him
to sell his ancestral
home, Toad Hall, to the
cunning and conniving
weasels!
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Classic adaptation of H.
Rider Haggard's adventure
novel, starring Cedric
Hardwicke as explorer
Allan Quatermaine. When
fortune-hunter Patrick
O'Brien (Arthur Sinclair)
disappears in the African
desert after setting off
to find the fabled
diamond mines of King
Solomon, his daughter
Kathy (Anna Lee) and
native guide Umbopa (Paul
Robeson) ask Quatermaine
to lead a dangerous
expedition into the heart
of the country to track
him down. There,
Quatermaine discovers a
secret lost tribe led by
an evil witch, and is
shocked to find that
Umbopa is the heir to the
tribe's throne. Only by
helping Umbopa regain his
position can Quatermaine
hope to rescue O'Brien
from the tribe's
clutches.
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Screen adaptation of the
successful wartime play,
with an all-star cast. A
Fifth Column organisation
plans to kidnap a
scientist (Leslie Banks)
from his country house
laboratory, and while he
is unaware of any threat
to him he continues
working on his
revolutionary new
bomb-sight. His assistant
(Michael Wilding) is
suspected of passing
secret information to
enemy agents, and the
arrival of an injured
officer (John Mills), a
writer (Alastair Sim) and
an evacuee from London (a
youthful George Cole)
only add to the twists
and turns of the plot.
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An American in England
decides to go and stay in
an old country house with
his friend Casper Femm.
Upon his arrival he is
informed of Casper's
untimely death, and is
then introduced to the
rest of the family, but
as evening draws on
members of the family
begin to get murdered and
the murderer must be
found before there is
no-one left alive.
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Two heavenly observers
decide to bestow magical
powers on a mild mannered
draper's assistant. At
first the young man uses
his powers to woo the
woman of his dreams, but
after a while he finds
that people are trying to
exploit him. He decides
to take it upon himself
to assert moral
authority, but things
get out of hand and it is
time for the celestial
beings to intervene
again.
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An episodic tale of an
average working class
family in the interwar
years. Narrated by
Laurence Olivier and
directed by David Lean,
the story traces the
melodrama caused by
illicit affairs, family
bereavement, the first
ripples of women's
liberation and political
instability in the
country during the
General Strike. It
highlights the fact that
these internal wranglings
are all happening in one
house in an average
street, and that each
average house has its own
dramatic stories to tell.
Adapted from Noel
Coward's stage play.
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A look at London in the
swinging 60s through the
eyes of a humble sandwich
board man (Michael
Bentine). Throughout the
course of the day he
travels London and meets
many different types of
people played by top
comedy names of the time
including Alfie Bass,
Terry-Thomas, Bernard
Cribbins, Diana Dors,
Wilfred Hyde-White,
Warren Mitchell, Norman
Wisdom and Ian Hendry.
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Hitchcock-directed comedy
thriller. When a young
woman is found strangled
on the seashore, Robert
Tisdall (Derrick De
Marney) is quickly
identified as the chief
suspect in the case. The
young man protests his
innocence, but it seems
that only Erica Burgoyne
(Nova Pilbeam), the
eighteen-year-old
daughter of the local
police constable, is
prepared to believe him.
Together, the unlikely
duo set out to find the
real killer. An early
blueprint for such
Hitchcock classics as 'To
Catch a Thief' and 'North
by Northwest'.
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Colourful adaptation of
Achmed Abdullah's
timeless tale, directed
by some of the top names
of the time (including
Michael Powell and Zoltan
Korda). Young thief Abu
(Sabu) aids Ahmad (John
Justin), the deposed
King of Bagdad, when his
throne is usurped by the
evil Jaffar (Conrad
Veidt). Filming began in
Britain but was
transferred to the States
because of the Second
World War.
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1950 collection of three
vignettes from short
stories written by W.
Somerset Maugham and
introduced on screen by
the writer himself. 'The
Verger' follows the
fortunes of Albert
Foreman (James Hayter) a
man of the cloth at St
Neville's whose position
is terminated when it
emerges that he is
illiterate. Forced to
change his life, he
rejects reading and
writing lessons and
instead opens a
tobacconist shop. He then
becomes something of an
unlikely business tycoon.
In 'Mister Know All'
we're introduced to Max
Kelada (Nigel Patrick)
the type of bigmouth
everyone loves to hate. A
Jeweler to trade, he
goes on a cruise where
his inability to keep
quiet leads him into an
awkward situation. When
he identifies the
necklace of a fellow
passenger's wife as
authentic and almost
reveals a secret affair.
His ability to finally
keep his face shut earns
him a newfound respect.
Finally, 'Sanitorium' is
set in a TB ward in the
Scottish countryside. New
patient Ashenden (Roland
Culver) checks in and
begins immediately to
observe the lives of the
other patients. A
touching romance between
resident patients Major
Templeton (Michael
Rennie) captivates his
imagination while the
incessant bickering
between elderly residents
McLeod (Finlay Currie)
and Campbell (John
Laurie) provides comic
relief.
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A classic
Powell/Pressburger tale
of sexual awakening based
on the Rumer Godden
novel. A group of British
nuns are sent into the
Himalayas to set up a
mission in what was once
the harem's quarters of
an ancient palace. The
clear mountain air, the
unfamiliar culture and
the unbridled sensuality
of a young prince (Sabu)
and his beggar-girl lover
(Jean Simmons) begin to
play havoc with the nuns'
long-suppressed emotions.
Whilst the young Mother
Superior, Sister Clodagh
(Deborah Kerr), fights a
losing battle for order,
the jaunty David Farrar
falls in love with her,
sparking uncontrollable
jealousy in another nun,
Sister Ruth (Kathleen
Byron).
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The feature film inspired
by Shakespeare's Othello.
Paul Harris is happily
married to Marti Stevens.
Patrick McGoohan plays
the film's funky Iago
character, who covets
Harris' job. McGoohan
hopes to unnerve Harris
by spreading rumours that
Stevens has been
unfaithful.
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This spoof of the sports
industry comes from the
director of 'The Naked
Gun' and stars 'South
Park' creators Trey
Parker and Matt Stone as
two average guys who
devise a game to play in
their driveway. When the
game becomes a national
obsession, the duo are
propelled into stardom
and their new-found
status allows them to
indulge in all the
dubious trappings of
fame.
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Newspaper editor Nick
Condon (James Cagney) is
based in Tokyo, and puts
his life and those of
others at risk when he
runs a story revealing
Japan's plans to conquer
China. When the reporter
who wrote the story
(Wallace Ford) and his
wife (Rosemary de Camp)
are both murdered,
Condon teams up with a
beautiful secret agent
(Sylvia Sidney) to expose
corruption in the
Japanese government.
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Alfred Hitchcock's
directorial debut is a
melodrama about the love
lives of two chorus
girls, Patsy (Virginia
Valli) and Jill
(Carmelita Geraghty).
With both girls working
at the 'Pleasure Garden',
Patsy soon meets and
marries Levett (Miles
Mander), who happens to
be the best friend of
Jill's fiance Fielding
(John Stuart). When both
men leave to do work in
the colonies, Patsy soon
finds Jill two-timing
Fielding, something she
would never consider,
trusting her husband's
fidelity completely. But
her views of Everett are
shattered forever when,
hearing he is ill, she
travels out to see him,
only to find that he is
sleeping with a native
girl, and has developed
a serious alcohol
problem.
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Louise (Yvonne Arnaud)
was once married to
Polotski. Believing him
dead, she remarried, to
Sir Duncan (Ralph Lynn).
However, Polotski is
still alive, and plans
to blackmail Louise. At
work, Sir Duncan has
threatened his employee
Mr Penny with dismissal,
planning to replace him
with a Mr Bullock. When
Mr Penny calls at the
house in the evening, he
finds Louise alone as Sir
Duncan is out with a
girlfriend. Louise
decides to take advantage
of the situation,
unaware that a suspicious
Mr Bullock is outside.
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Double-bill of classic
espionage action,
starring Richard Johnson
as British adventurer
Bulldog Drummond. In
'Deadlier Than the Male'
(1966), when a group of
seductively beautiful
women start committing a
series of political
assassinations, Bulldog
Drummond is called in to
investigate. Before long
Drummond has determined
that his old rival Carl
Petersen (Nigel Green) is
responsible, and the
scene is set for a taut
confrontation in
Petersen's isloated
castle. 'Some Girls Do'
(1969) sees Drummond
trying to track down
Petersen (James Villiers)
before he can destroy a
top-secret experimental
fighter aircraft being
tested by the British
military. What Drummond
hasn't reckoned with are
Petersen's gang of deadly
female androids who will
stop at nothing to
protect their master.
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