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Korda's first contribution to the War Effort of 1939 - 1945 was 'The Lion Has Wings '. It appeared just a few months after the outbreak of the Second World War and was unashamedly a propaganda weapon.

By skilful use of documentary footage, Korda builds up a heart-rending picture of the situation at the outbreak of the war. He shows a Germany of steel, armed and united in a wave of hysteria created by the spell of a fanatical madman, and contrasts this with the peaceful, golden villages of England. It portrays the everyday lives of the British people who are prepared to sacrifice everything for the greater good. Korda uses some of his best known and loved stars: Ralph Richardson stars as a Squadron Leader of the Royal Air Force, representing the courage of the men whose duty was to fight; Merle Oberon as his wife and June Duprez as her friend, representing the women who uncomplainingly work, wait and hope that their men will return safely; Brian Worth is the young Canadian airman representing the allies without whom Britain would have been in trouble.

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Beautiful Clare Hemsley (Peggy Cummins) and her father Victor (Ronald Squire) are swindlers working the sophisticated hotels of the French Riviera.

They pose as a newly married couple before Victor mysteriously disappears each time with the family savings, leaving a sobbing and penniless Clare destitute. She then makes the most of the financial contributions from the sympathetic guests and distressed hoteliers. Their scam is working fine until Clare meets and falls in love with Terence Winch (Terence Morgan), an agent from the British Treasury who spends his days spying on delinquent tax payers. Clare wants to give up her life on the Riviera and return to England for a more settled life. However her father persuades her to embark on one last scheme, to sell the hotel they are staying to one of Britain's best known tax dodgers (James Hayter), with hilarious consequences...

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PC Don Ross (Anthony Oliver) suspects that a gang of lorry hijackers, operating from a transport café, is behind a series of vehicle thefts.

When his suspicions are dismissed by his superiors, Ross decides to conduct his own undercover investigation, and sets out to collect vital evidence that could convict the gang...

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Set in 1930s Salford during the Great Depression, 'Love on the Dole' follows Harry Hardcastle (Geoffrey Hibbert) and Sally (Deborah Kerr), two young siblings who fall prey to poverty and mass unemployment, and must make terrible sacrifices in order to survive.

Although its stark portrayal of social deprivation led the British Board of Film Censors to initially ban the film as a 'very sordid story in very sordid surroundings', Love on the Dole retains an optimistic spirit, reinforcing the ideal that Britain's working classes could overcome any hardship. Through its impassioned performances, it shows faith in the values of liberal democracy which Britain upheld throughout the war, and looks forward to a better future.

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After the war, Jim Harding (Douglass Montgomery) is desperate to put his knowledge of chemistry to good use but his wife's greed forces him to sell potions for baldness and stomach disorders in a fairground booth on Blackpool's Golden Mile.

His marriage hits rock bottom when his wife Diana (Patricia Burke) dates a theatrical impresario behind his back and Jim falls in love with the beautiful Jane Thompson (Hazel Court), who runs the candyfloss stall opposite. But Jim's newfound happiness is cut short when his wife finds out about their affair and refuses to give him a divorce. As their marriage disintegrates into constant bickering, Jim takes a walk along Blackpool's crowded shore and decides to murder his wife...

U.S. Army Officer Dan Adams (Robert MacKenzie), blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves in an effort to clear his name. In order to trap the wily criminals, Adams pretends that he's still bereft of his vision. Based on the 1950 film 'Blackout'.

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When David Preston (Ralph Richardson) returns home at seven, his distraught wife tells him that he did not come home at seven - or at any other time - the previous evening.

In fact, he has no idea where he could have been; he recalls nothing between the time he left the bank on Monday and his arrival home that following evening. His doctor is inclined at first to treat it lightly, but everything changes when it emerges that during Preston's 'lost day', a murder and robbery have taken place...

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Dai Number 9 (Donald Houston) and his brother Twm (Meredith Edwards) win a newspaper contest: £100 each and a trip to London to see Wales play England at Twickenham.

But when the two colliers arrive at Paddington they miss their contact and fall in with an attractive blonde who just happens to overhear that they're in the money...

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29 Acacia Avenue (1945)

The Robinsons (Gordon Marker and Betty Balfour) are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children (Jimmy Hanley and Carla Lehmann) the free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr and Mrs Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early...

Operation Cupid (1960)
When three bumbling conmen win a dating agency in a rigged card game they think their luck has finally changed. When they take charge of the business though, they discover that the con is on them and that the agency is in debt, the furnishings are all on credit and the staff" haven't been paid! Salvation appears in the form of a millionaires client who is searching for a suitable husband and one of the conmen pretends to also be a millionaire. But who is conning who?

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Double bill of British crime dramas from 1959, directed by Terry Bishop.

Life In Danger
When a child murderer escapes from an asylum, Hazel (Julie Hopkins) takes up with a casual labourer (Derren Nesbitt). The couple are trapped in a barn wrongly accused of murder.

Cover Girl Killer
Set in the sleazy world of a backstreet 50s nightclub. A serial-killer is believed to be murdering the models of glamour magazine, when cover-girl Gloria Starke (Bernadette Milnes), is found dead after going on an assignment with mysterious TV producer, Spendosa (Harry H. Corbett), Inspector Brunner (Victor Brooks) is put on the case to interview all concerned.

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Double bill of British crime dramas.

Three Silent Men (1940)

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot. The next day the inventor is found dead. Could it be the surgeon?
Inquest (1939)
Directed by Roy Boulting this Charter production was made in 1939. It was Boultings second film on the way to; "Twisted Nerve", "The Family Way" and "Seagulls Over Sorrento". Inquest is a whodunit played out through the coroners' inquest. Filmed at Highbury Studios and starring Elizabeth Allan and Herbert Lomas.

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Gritty, violent and exciting. Nine Men dramatises the actions of a section of British troops in crisis during the North African War, cut off behind enemy lines in the Western Desert. Driven by a sandstorm to seek refuge in a tomb, they resist being besieged by Italian troops.

The films tense atmosphere highlights the imminent danger of the plot and is counterbalanced by good humour and comradeship amongst the troops.

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A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organisation behind a gang of safebreakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals. The mysterious Mr. G is boss of a gang undertaking daring safe robberies.

Jimmy Baxter (Wayne Morris) of Anglo American Investigations is on his trail. Also on the trail is feeble Inspector Felby (Lloyd Lamble) who "wants this lot badly" after the theft of Lady Wilshaw's diamond tiara ends in murder. The showdown is at a pawnbrokers where the crooks send the police a hail of bullets.

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In this romantic comedy, four children are seemingly orphaned and remanded in their Aunt and Uncle's custody after their parents, renowned explorers, are lost.

The proper English Aunt, a sensitive, dignified entomologist Laura Weeks (Virginia Bruce) is the sister of the missing mother; the Uncle, a playboy money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman Jeff Longstreet, (John Carroll) is the brother of their father. Naturally, the disparate duo dislike each other at first...

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In a beautiful alpine resort our two heroes, the debonair army Captain Clive Morton (Nigel Patrick) and the clumsy upper class Humpy Miller (David Tomlinson), are guests in a family run hotel. Here they catch their first glimpse of the most stunning scenery in all of Switzerland...

the gorgeous Mary (Jill Day), the hotel owner's daughter. Our two heroes do battle for Mary's affections only to find that a wealthy Greek, Gaston Nikopopoulos (Leo McKern), also has his eye on the prize. Clive shows off his skiing prowess while Humpy wraps himself around a tree as fun and frolics ensue on the slippery slopes. However disaster strikes our valiant English suitors when they succumb to a bout of chicken pox and are confined to their rooms. Slowly nursed back to health by Humpy's overbearing childhood nanny (Kathleen Harrison), will they be able to snare their prey or will the lovely Mary fall for the Mediterranean charms of the ghastly Gaston??