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It is 1651. The English Civil War has officially been over for two years, but the country is still split by the conflict between the royalists, who want to see King Charles II on the throne, and the Roundheads, followers of Oliver Cromwell.

The Roundheads' most feared adversary is a Royalist known to them only as The Moonraker (George Baker). His courage, skill with a sword, and quick wits have kept him at liberty despite all their best efforts. Cromwell has become increasingly perturbed by The Moonraker's activity and demands an all-out campaign to capture him. But the elusive Moonraker has other ideas...An unforgettable tale of adventure, swordplay, double agents and passionate romance in the best swashbuckling tradition.

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A rare musical/comedy outing for James Stewart, then at the peak of his career. Stewart plays James Hamilton Haskell, a former music store worker who joins his uncle's health food business and befriends a band along the way.

His uncle hates music, his hatred not being helped by the fact that the band practice next door to his factory. Based on a popular radio show of the time 'Pot O'Gold', the film gave both James Stewart and Paulette Goddard the opportunity of displaying their singing talents.

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Griffiths the Hearse, the only undertaker in town, hides his money by secretly sewing his cash into his wife's unmentionables. Unbeknown to him, his wife is plotting to run away with Evans the Milk.

As the 'elopement' day approaches Mrs Griffiths decides it's time to swap the old for the new in every way, and replaces her old corsets. And so the farce begins... Griffiths realises his wife has disappeared and rushes off in pursuit of her - and her undergarments. When he catches up with her, he retrieves what he believes to be the precious girdle, but his money is still missing. In a fury he accuses the milkman of theft. Out to clear his name, Evans must get his hands on the original underwear. As Griffiths and Evans race to find the lost girdle, chaos ensues. Will Griffiths get his money back? Or his wife? Does he even want his wife back? And who's taking care of the milk round?

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"Expresso Bongo" takes the lid off the seedier side of showbiz! Cliff Richard plays Bongo Herbert, a young singer, playing for peanuts in Soho's sleazy clubs with its striptease snows, clip joints and teenage dens.

He becomes an overnight success when taken up by wide boy showbiz agent Johnny (a brilliant performance from Laurence Harvey) but at what price? Cliff's first role is packed with punch and the great soundtrack includes the hit single Voice in the Wilderness and I've Never had It So Good. His co-stars include Yolande Donlan, as man-crazy American singer Dixie Collins and Sylvia Syms cast against type as a dancer in a strip show.

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Connie Dickson (Veronica Lake) plans to marry a sheep rancher, but her father teams up with land baron Frank Ivey (Preston Foster) to drive the man out of town.

Fiery Connie, determined to fight Ivey to the bitter end, takes over her ex-fiance's land and hires Dave Nash (Joel McCrea) to run the ranch as her ramrod. Dave, a reformed drunk, insists on doing everything by the book. Little does he know that Connie has taken matters into her own hands, and gone behind his back. Armed with his cowboy code of honour, Dave manoeuvres a dangerous world of greed, lies, and murder in this old fashioned tale featuring two of Hollywood biggest stars of the 1940's.

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Truman (Stanley Baker) is a tough Liverpool detective on the trail of a notorious arsonist known as 'The Firefly'. However he is unimpressed when forced to accept the post of Juvenile Liaison Officer and does not relish his new role until he meets Cathie Murphy (Anne Heywood).

Truman becomes suspicious of Cathie's brother Johnnie (David McCallum) the leader of a local gang and as their relationship develops Johnnie's behaviour becomes more erratic. After Johnnie is embarrassingly ejected from The Grand Hotel the police are on his trail and arrive just as the hotel is ablaze. Johnnie escapes in a van killing his accomplice in the process. With the police in pursuit, Johnnie acquires a gun and takes a group of schoolchildren hostage. The priest tries to convince Johnnie to give himself up before tragedy strikes.

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Air Marshall Hardie is a guest at a society dinner party in Hong Kong on the eve of his flight to Tokyo. During the course of the night, another guest is persuaded to share the details of a strange dream he had, which involved a plane crash in the mountains of Japan.

Hardie takes little notice of the story until the following day, when he discovers the plane he had been intending to fly has been swapped for a Dakota, the very plane that featured in the mysterious dream. Stranger still, two last minute passengers arrive, taking the number of passengers up to match with that which the dream foretold. Hardie begins to wonder if it was indeed merely a dream — or a premonition which is about to become a deadly reality.

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American Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) arrives in London to pick up the threads of a wartime romance. As he disembarks, fellow passenger Kendall Brown is assassinated and Pryor finds himself caught up in a murder inquiry. The victim was killed by a mysterious sniper, known as the 'limping man'.

Pryor's wartime amour is actress Pauline French (Moira Lister) who he hasn't seen in six years. She happens to be a crack shot with a rifle, and the dead man had a picture of her in his possession... Scotland Yard Detective Cameron (Leslie Phillips) is assigned to the case, and Pryor and his sweetheart become his chief suspects.

When film-star heartthrob Rex Allerton (David Niven) jokingly suggests that he'll marry the winner of a competition to win a week as his guest, he sets in motion a train of events that threaten to turn his life upside down!

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Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this gripping drama follows the lives of the dedicated team of doctors and nurses staffing Emergency Ward 10 and dealing with life-and-death decisions every day.

When a new surgeon arrives from America with a new heart-lung machine to treat a desperately ill young boy, there is friction between the newcomer and a jealous rival at the hospital. When an elderly patient dies while on the new machine, the tension explodes between the more traditional members of staff and those favouring new and experimental techniques.

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All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.

Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum) are two detectives on a mission to safeguard the structure of Time. Not human, and hot quite alien, the mysterious couple grapple with Time, shown here as an eerie and frightening force. With uncanny powers they protect the present from invading evils of the past and future in a series of unforgettable and mysterious adventures.

Assignment IV
An evil amorphous entity uses photographs to move between time dimensions. It takes over a junkshop and entraps the inhabitants. Sapphire and Steel investigate their disappearance.
Assignment V
A golden anniversary party unleashes Time's worst instincts. Lord Arthur Mullrine is celebrating fifty years in business but the years are rolled back and guests start being killed off.
Assignment VI
Sapphire and Steel meet Silver at an abandoned petrol station. They also meet several people from different decades acting suspiciously.

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Lucy (Phyllis Calvert), Charlotte (Dulcie Gray) and Vera (Anne Crawford) are three sisters who are pursued by three very different kinds of men asking for their hand in marriage.

Geoffrey (James Mason) is an ambitious, carousing businessman who pursues Charlotte because he believes a demure, stay-at-home wife will make his career progress more rapidly and his extra-marital social activities more pleasant. William (Peter Murray-Hill) is a dependable, kindly man who recognises in Lucy a kindred spirit. Vera is a social butterfly with no interest in anyone but herself, so when Brian (Barry Livesey) offers to marry her, she accepts as a marriage of convenience and takes lovers when she desires. As time passes the three sisters suffer joy and heartache, but as the cruel, sadistic behaviour of Geoffrey threatens to send Charlotte insane, the sisters decide to unite together with momentous consequences...

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Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home.

Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his own...and teaching mortal Henry an immortal lesson in romance isn't all he's got planned!

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As World War Two rages, Jim Colter (John Mills) finds himself called up to serve in the Army - but he's soon to find himself at war on two fronts.

While he's away, his lovely wife Tillie (Joy Shelton) attracts the amorous attention of Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger), a vicious local spiv and self-acclaimed ladies man. When Jim's sister writes informing him of what is happening, Jim decides that the Nazis can wait and that an even more insidious enemy needs to be dealt with first. He breaks out of camp, goes AWOL and sets off to find his wife. With the military hot on his tail, Jim must make his way through war torn London to settle things once and for all.

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Look on a map and you won't find it. Look in your heart and there it will be. Vincente Minnelli directs this otherworldly tale of vacationing New Yorkers (Kelly and Van Johnson) who discover a Scottish village that comes to life once every 100 years for one day only.

There, Kelly and a town lass (Cyd Charisse) share the love of a lifetime - one seemingly allotted just 24 hours.