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Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general.

When the army are made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German, who they are currently bolding prisoner, they decide to drop the reluctant Mr Potts behind enemy lines. His deadly missions is to find and retrieve information on secret weapon that the Germans are planning to use. But whilst impersonating the Nazi general William Potts manages to infiltrate the collage of Hitler Youth. He also manages to make a big impression on the students who are being trained as spies and are learning how to fit into British society. Luckily Mr. Potts is at hand to give them lots of handy hints in honour of the war effort!

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A suspenseful, true-life spy thriller based on the memoirs of L. C. Moyzisch, 5 Fingers features an enigmatic performance from James Mason as a charming, amoral enemy spy posing as the valet to a British ambassador during World War II.

Working for the highest bidder with no personal political bent, Cicero secures British war files detailing the planned D-Day attacks and passes on the documents to the Nazi's who regard the information as too far-fetched to be treated seriously. Intelligently scripted by Michael Wilson just before he fell victim to the McCarthy-era blacklists and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and witty 5 Fingers audaciously popularised the notion of the anti-hero protagonist and intelligently emphasised a cynical view of government hypocrisy. A film that's some way ahead of its time, it also features a stirring score by music maestro Bernard Herrmann.

When Dr. Howard Latimer (John Mills) finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and a fake passport scam.

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Traversing the criminal underworld of the north-east of England some ten years before 'Get Carter', Johnny Mellor's band of ruthless criminals attempt to get away with murder, but as the police close in, the gang begins to fall apart, with each member seeking a way out - and in their panic, no one

realizes there is one adversary they have all overlooked.

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Double bill of British crime dramas.

The Flaw (1955)

Directed by Terence Fisher of Hammer fame, this 1955 British production stars John Bentley, Donald Houston and Rona Anderson. In this crime drama, racing car driver Raul Oliveri (John Bentley) plans to murder his wife for the insurance money. Her attorney, who is in love with her, discovers the plan - a brutal fight culminates in tragedy for one of the two combatants. Great old motor racing sequences and filmed in Shoreham, East Sussex.
Witness in the Dark (1959)
This second feature stars Patricia Dainton as a blind girl who "witnesses" the thief turned murderer of her upstairs friend and neighbour. Also stars Conrad Phillips and Nigel Green.

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In 1890's Brighton the young son of a puritanical chemist longs to escape the repressive environment of his family life and the overbearing restraints of his cruel, pious father.

Eventually finding refuge in a local tavern he is immediately attracted to the sordid glamour of the drinking classes and the gritty world that they inhabit. He also finds himself becoming infatuated with the tavern's landlady, which will inadvertently lead to him being drawn into a plot to kill her abusive husband.

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To spy on her younger ex-lover, divorcee Claire (Juliette Binoche) creates a fake profile on social media. Posing as a 24-year-old named Clara, Claire becomes entangled with her ex's friend Alex who is instantly enamored.

Riding a wave of self-discovery but confined to her avatar, Claire falls madly in love with Alex. Although everything is played out in the virtual world, the feelings that blossom become very real. As Clara and Alex's virtual lives grow, Claire's reality begins to hang by a thread as her web of lies starts to unravel.

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Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" has been turned into a film more than once but none can compare with Rene Clair's version, the film begins as eight strangers find themselves on a small boat heading to the island retreat of their mysterious host.

The guests have diverse backgrounds but all harbour a dark secret, when they are joined by the cook and a maid they become ten, the host fails to materialize and when the maid plays a recording that accuses each of the guests of murder, each deny their involvement, but this doesn't stop them being murdered one by one. Can the remaining guests find the murderer before it is their turn to die?

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A scintillating Alastair Sim plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part time job - he is also a professional assassin who bumps off all the people we love to hate.

But when pompous MP Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley) is the intended target, bungling vacuum-cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole) always gets in the way. As the time of the assassination draws ever closer, Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called The Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax.

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One dark summers night, Francesca Cunningham (Ann Todd), a once world-famous concert pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. Rescued by Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lorn), Francesca is taken back to the hospital in order to undergo psychological treatment.

Desperate to know what events drove her to this state of mind, Dr Larsen hypnotises Francesca and uncovers a traumatic relationship with her domineering guardian, Nicholas (James Mason). Forced to endlessly practice the piano, Francesca's deep psychological traumas have become hidden behind The Seventh Veil...

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra (Kyliegh Curran), a courageous teen who desperately needs his help - and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Virginal young heiress Miss Blandish (Linden Travers) is kidnapped by a couple of small time hoods, only to find herself seized from them by gangster Slim Grissom (Jack LaRue). He isn't just interested in her for the ransom money - and neither are the other members of the Grissom gang.

Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself perversely attracted to the gang leader. They plan to run off together, but amongst gangsters life is cheap - and a double cross is always just around the corner...

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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village.

The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.

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While researching a paper on witches, a female student (Venetia Stevenson) travels to a New England town. Whitewood: to find a place cursed and full of death and occultism.

The beautiful student also finds that she has arrived on Candlemass Eve, the night of Satanic human sacrifice and numerous other evil goings on, with rather unpleasant results...

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This film is considered the best of the Charlie Chan Warner Oland series.

Boris Karloff stars as the menacing Gravelle who has recently escaped from The Rockland State Sanatorium and is acting the part of Mephisto in the Opera 'Carnival' he is suspected of killing his wife and her lover, as usual Chan is brought in and has to work with the police and his Number One son (Keye Luke) to solve the case but is Gravelle really the killer or is there something far more sinister going on...