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Sailors Three / Save a Little Sunshine (1940)Three Cockeyed Sailors
Double bill of comedies featuring Tommy Trinder.
Sailors Three (1940)After a drunken night out, three British sailors accidentally board the wrong ship - only to discover that it is a German destroyer. The three hapless sailors attempt to capture the enemy vessel for themselves and sail it back to England.
Save a Little Sunshine (1938)
A man uses some reward money to buy himself a boarding house, but the tumbledown establishment soon provides more trouble than profit as he finds himself working day and night to keep the place running.- Director:
- Walter Forde
- Cast:
- Tommy Trinder, E.V.H. Emmett, Michael Wilding
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The Four Just Men (1939)The Secret Four
Spirited out of a condemned cell where he has learnt of a plot to sabotage the Suez Canal, James Terry (Frank Lawton) is able to reveal two clues to his fellow members of the Four Just Men - two vital clues pointing towards a dastardly plan to bring down the whole of the British Empire!- Director:
- Walter Forde
- Cast:
- Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan
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Heiress Susan Graham (Carol Marsh) is desperate to find a cure for her hiccups. She is both helped and hindered by her two uncles, each with a son keen to marry Susan. She encounters BBC radio star Nick Martin (David Tomlinson) and her quest leads her to a haunted house and an eccentric psychiatrist (Jimmy Edwards) who recommends laughter as the only cure for her affliction. Susan's hilarious journey leads her to the BBC radio studios where she again encounters Nick and a romance begins to blossom, however Nick's domineering mother does all she can to keep them apart. Will Susan find true love and a cure for her hiccups? - Director:
- Ralph Thomas
- Cast:
- Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns
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21 Days (1940)21 Days Together
Larry Durrant (Laurence Olivier) is a playboy and one of life's losers! Having failed as a farmer in Africa he returns to England and strikes up a relationship with an attractive married model, Wanda (Vivien Leigh). All does not run smooth for the lovers as Wanda's estranged husband appears after a 3 year absence demanding money. A fight breaks out between the two men and during the ensuing scuffle Larry accidently kills the blackmailer in self-defence.
Larry immediately seeks the help of his brother Keith (Leslie Banks), an ambitious and selfish barrister on the brink of becoming a judge. Fearful that any scandal might tarnish his name Keith pleads with his younger brother not to confess to murder. The same evening, Larry meets a destitute former clergyman, John Aloysius Evan (Hay Petrie), near the scene of the murder. Evan steals the victim's wallet and is arrested and charged with murder and held for 21 days until he comes to trial.
Larry and Wanda use the three weeks to get married and enjoy their time together - but the weeks pass quickly. Evan is subsequently found guilty and sentenced to hang and Larry has to decide if he can live with the death of two men on his conscience.- Director:
- Basil Dean
- Cast:
- Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
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David (Ian Carmichael) proposes to Janet (Janette Scott) in the middle of a cricket match, a prospect less-than-enthusiastically received by Janet's prosperous father. The thought of his daughter's marriage to a young man of unimpressive means and hazy future is accepted with dubious grace, and the two lovebirds find romance being replaced by a regiment of interfering relatives! - Director:
- Roy Boulting
- Cast:
- Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker
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Hotshot reporter Frank Burdon is thrilled to land a job at the only newspaper in the wee Scottish town of Baikie. His first assignment is to interview the local politician, wealthy William Gow, who is running for Parliament. Burdon is shocked to find that despite Gow's glowing reputation, the man is totally insensitive. The final straw comes when the politician refuses to speak to a destitute ice cream vendor whose dog he impounded when she could no longer afford to pay the license. Indignant, Burdon's puff piece begins to take another direction... Despite himself, Burdon can't help but fall for Gow's beautiful daughter Vickie. When his piece breaks, hundreds of British press descend on the tiny town. When a pack of impounded dogs including the ice cream vendor's hound are set free, how will Burdon prove his innocence? This rare British foray into the Screwball genre sees Rex Harrison take his first starring role. If you don't watch 'Storm in a Teacup' for the hilarious script, impeccable acting, adorable doggy talent or fascinating anti-fascist undercurrents, watch it to see two burgeoning Hollywood icons at the very start of their huge careers! - Director:
- Ian Dalrymple
- Cast:
- Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker
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True as a Turtle (1957)Plain Sailing
Tony Hudson (John Gregson) asks his new wife Jane (June Thorburn) to go on a cruise to France on the ageing yacht 'Turtle'. The yacht's skipper is the cantankerous Dudley Partridge (Cecil Parker) an important customer of Tony's. Along with the rest of the crew the newlyweds encounter a series of hilarious mishaps on their trip which leave them all at sea... - Director:
- Wendy Toye
- Cast:
- John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn
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The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert (Gordon Harker), an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr. Finch (John Loder). He thinks it's time Albert was replaced... - Director:
- David MacDonald
- Cast:
- Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, John Loder
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Trying to climb a rung on the social ladder, Joan (Patricia Medina) is pressured into marrying pompous boss (Claud Allister) by her pushy mother (Ellen Pollock) - but Joan loves a soldier (Jimmy Hanley) who is away fighting. On his return he finds Joan betrothed and he storms off to Scotland, Joan decides to follow and all ends happily...also stars Irene Handl. - Director:
- Paul L. Stein
- Cast:
- Patricia Medina, Jimmy Hanley, Frederick Leister
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At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley (Raymond Lovell). They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany... - Director:
- Lawrence Huntington
- Cast:
- Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie
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Alfred Bandle (Alfred Drayton) and Wilmer Popday (Robertson Hare) are partners - in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended - and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he'll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise... - Director:
- Lawrence Huntington
- Cast:
- Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Polly Ward
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The placid, harmonious life of a quiet village becomes a hotbed of paranoia and hatred as anonymous letters accusing the villagers of moral and sexual misdemeanours begin to circulate. As speculation and malicious gossip spread, suspicions begin to centre on Connie Fateley (Catherine Lacey), a shy, solitary seamstress; it is only a matter of time before events take a tragic turn... - Director:
- Paul L. Stein
- Cast:
- Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd
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Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is cast into a web of international intrigue when she decides to hide fugitive British agent Alan Thurston (James Mason) from Nazi agents in the Vichy colony of Algiers. Thurston's mission is to recover a camera revealing the exact location where the Allies are rehearsing operations for the invasion of North Africa. His every move is followed by Dr. Muller (Walter Rilla), a Nazi sympathiser, who will stop at nothing to acquire the camera and capture the Allied group. - Director:
- George King
- Cast:
- James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell
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Duncan mistakenly books a party of naturists into the campsite which causes much confusion among the residents. Golly's fading eyesight, which he won't acknowledge, causes him to allow one of the wolves to escape the pen - close to the naked visitors. Archie instructs Duncan to evacuate the campsite discreetly, however the nudists, used to being asked to leave, are determined to stay. The Ghillie's ball, which seemed doomed, has been salvaged by Lexie's lateral thinking. On returning to the house from a shoot the men find there is a spectacular ball in progress - with a difference. A strange young man arrives at Glenbogle and is convinced that Golly is his long-lost father. - Director:
- Rick Stroud
- Cast:
- Alastair Mackenzie, Susan Hampshire, Dawn Steele
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In this 1957 Tempean production, reporter Joe Saunders, (Jeff Morrow) finds out that a mystery woman the police are looking for in a murder case, is in fact his wife (Hazel Court). Joe must find the real killer and clear his wife. Also stars Lionel Jeffries and watch out for Arthur Lowe in an uncredited role, it's a clever little whodunnit of its time and hides the killer well. - Director:
- C.M. Pennington-Richards
- Cast:
- Jeff Morrow, Hazel Court, Lionel Jeffries
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