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Barbara Vining (Glynis Johns) is an impressionable teenage schoolgirl who has her first crush on her handsome Latin teacher Stephen Barlow (Leo Genn). Barlow meanwhile is married to a beautiful but insecure American Kay (Gene Tierney).

When Barbara disappears after a late night tutoring session at the Barlow home suspicion abounds. The pressure builds on Barlow as the Police launch an investigation and he is forced to step down from his post as teacher. The strength of Barlow's marriage is tested to the full as are the inter-relationships within the Vining family. Will Barbara be found and how will the respective families cope with the highly charged outcome?

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Desius Heiss (Oscar Homolka) is the French-born owner of an antique shop on Sly Corner who bears a grudge against society. His imprisonment and torture on Devil's Island has left him with scars down his back from repeated whippings.

With little care for the authorities, Heiss has allowed his shop to become a centre of criminal activity and enjoys a secret career as a receiver of stolen goods. His daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow) is a violin virtuoso and knows nothing of her father's criminal activities. But when the antique shop's assistant, Archie Fellowes (Kenneth Griffith), discovers the illicit trade in stolen goods, he threatens to blackmail Heiss. Desperate to keep his criminal activities a secret from his daughter, Heiss decides to silence the blackmailer. But when Inspector Robson (Johnnie Schofield) takes a close interest in the Shop at Sly Corner, Heiss must stay one step ahead of the police if he values his neck.

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A married newspaper editor, Paul Pearson (Patrick Holt), is having an affair with Diana (Naomi Chance), a female reporter. Pearson has been using an old army friend, Bill Forrest (Bryan Coleman), as an alibi, telling his wife (Honor Blackman) that he is with Forrest while he really visits Diana.

When Pearson decides to end the affair he asks Forrest to cover for him one more time but when on the same night Forrest is murdered suspicion naturally falls on Pearson, and his web of deceit begins to unravel!

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The Topham family live a blissfully happy life together in the lovely market town of Dunmow in deepest Essex. Recently married Basil Topham (David Tomlinson) and his beautiful wife Julie (Petula Clark) are patiently waiting for their house to be built by local builders.

Until then, they are forced to live with Basil s parents and eccentric grandfather (A.E Matthews). Basil and Julie have been entered into the Dunmow Flitch, a competition for the happiest married couple and all seems idyllic with our newly-weds. That is until a beautiful maid Marta (Sonja Zieman) arrives from Hungary to run the Topham family home and inadvertently throws everything into chaos!!

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Terry Milligan (Peter Reynolds) is a greedy small time crook who fences through another local villain Bernie Shelton (Sydney Tafler). Shelton has plans for a violent bank robbery and Milligan wants 'in' Milligan joins the gang as a getaway driver but the job does not go to plan.

With the Police closing in Milligan seeks solace with local 'tart' Della (Sandra Dome) but will greed get the better of them both?

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Two brothers, Johnny (Patric Doonan) and Ted (Bryan Forbes) work in their disabled father's garage. Johnny is the hard-working brother and takes time to care for his father while Ted is a drunk and a womaniser.

The two brothers have a strained relationship which deteriorates further when Ted introduces his girlfriend, night club singer Lucky (Sandra Dorne) to Johnny. Family life becomes more complicated when police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.

Wealthy Frederick Loren and his wife invite five people to spend a night in a haunted house. Whoever manages the feat will receive $10,000, but collecting the money isn't as easy as it seems...

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When an unexploded WWII bomb is unexpectedly detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a buried cellar full of treasures, including an ancient document proving that the area is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory.

In an attempt to regain control, the British Government set up borders and cut off all services to the area, but the 'Burgundians' are determined to fight back!

Robert Beatty stars in this 1953 Nettlefold production. A hit and run victim is operated on by Dr Fenton, (Beatty) but the patient is later murdered and the good doctor is under suspicion. Gang moll 'Della' (Elizabeth Sellars) a member of the drug ring falls for the doctor and attempts to save him.

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David Niven plays Charles 'Copper' Carrington, a British Army Major and war hero promoted to higher rank during peacetime. Compelled to use his own money for his expense account, he finds himself owed a substantial amount by the War Office, who are somewhat slow in paying up...

Carrington becomes convinced that he will never see his money again and so, witnessing himself descend into serious financial problems, he is forced to take drastic action.

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An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's 'The Blue Lamp' was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did the most to define Ealing Studio's post-war identity.

The film marked the first appearance of the character of Jack Warner (Jack Warner) - later to be immortalized in 'Dixon of Dock Green'. The story follows two London policemen whose daily routine is interrupted by a botched robbery and subsequent murder hunt.

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The Rainbow Jacket tells the story of a shamed jockey who is banned from racing after taking a bribe. Undeterred by his misfortune he takes on a young protégé and decides to train him up as the next champion.

But as financial ruin rears its ugly head will they give in to corruption or finally beat the odds?

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Heroine Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) is an impoverished governess who marries into wealth and sets herself up as the mistress of a vast estate. Enter Heathcliffe-like stable boy Philip Thorn (Stewart Granger), who intends to run the estate and eventually claim Blanche as his own.

After a torrid, bodice-ripping romance between Blanche and Philip, the story segues into a no-names-please reenactment of the infamous 19th-century 'Rush Murder'.

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This dark melodrama based on the John Patrick story, Love Lies Bleeding, stars Barbara Stanwyck as the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers, a wealthy and domineering woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune.

She lives with her weakling husband, a district attorney running for mayor, played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut - a role that's an unusual departure from his later work. What no one in the town knows, however, is that Stanwyck and Douglas are bound by a dark secret involving murder. gripping and suspenseful, this film noir also stars Van Heflin as Martha's old love who returns to town after an 18-tear absence, whom Douglas thinks is there for one reason: blackmail.

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Miles Ravencourt (Laurence Harvey) is an amoral aristocrat who needs to pay off his gambling debt and plans to carry out the robbery of a mail van.

So he enlists the help of 3 troubled men, all equally desperate for money: American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) who hopes to use his share of the haul to bring his British wife to the US professional boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) who finds himself unable to work in his chosen profession when his hand is broken, while his life savings are stolen by his disreputable brother in law and American airman Eddie (John Ireland) has left his wife upon discovering that she is unfaithful.