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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... - Director:
- Arthur Crabtree
- Cast:
- Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair
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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! - Director:
- Henry Koster
- Cast:
- Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
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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. - Director:
- Sidney Gilliat
- Cast:
- John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim
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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. - Director:
- Vincente Minnelli
- Cast:
- Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
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Armistice day 1918 and a young Vivian Kenway is befriended by soldiers returning from France. They tell him it's the fighters like themselves that make the difference in life and give him a 'lucky' pin to remember them by. And remember them he does. Not for young Vivian is it to be a life of struggle. Once he has been sent down from Oxford for a schoolboy prank his existence turns into a life of upper class decadence. Sent to work in South America, he soon rebels against routine of life on the coffee plantation. He tries his hand at being a racing driver before his life becomes one of philandering and drunkenness, which eventually leads to the death of his father. The outbreak of World War 2 offers Vivian the chance of ultimate salvation and the opportunity to finally earn the respect and admiration of his peers. - Director:
- Sidney Gilliat
- Cast:
- Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle
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Seriously ill concert pianist Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck) is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. She is attracted to her suave Doctor Stanton (David Niven) who prescribes lots of rest and fresh air. Karen decides to enjoy whatever life she has left in the night clubs of Monte Carlo in the presence of dashing Paul Clermont (Richard Conte). Doctor Stanton does all he can to save Karen. - Director:
- André De Toth
- Cast:
- Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte
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A dark and dramatic adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story, Laurence Payne stars as Edgar Marsh, a shy and awkward librarian who becomes obsessed with his new neighbour Betty Clare. Despite Marsh's infatuation and determination to win her affections, Betty Clare falls for Marsh's close friend Carl Loomis, a charismatic man of the world. Discovering their affair, Marsh's obsession turns to murderous rage and he kills Loomis. Consumed with guilt Marsh's mind begins to crumble as the sound of Loomis's still-beating heart haunts his every waking hour. - Director:
- Ernest Morris
- Cast:
- Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh
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A psychiatrist, Clive Esmond (Alexander Knox), catches young gunman Frank Clements (Dirk Bogarde) breaking into his house. Rather than send him to prison he invites the delinquent to stay at his home as a social guinea pig - Esmond believes he can curb the fugitives criminal tendencies. Further tensions arise however when the young begins an afair with Esmonds wife (Alexis Smith). - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox
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When she witnesses a gang of three crooks brutally murdering her father in the course of a robbery, beautiful young Jean Talbot (Elizabeth Sellars) vows to avenge him and to bring the perpetrators to justice. In the case of two of the three, fate beats her to it when they perish in a car crash fleeing the scene but the third survives and invents an alibi the cops just can't break. Desperate to lead the killer to incriminate himself, she finds herself playing a deadly game of seduction, using sex as the bait to entrap him, gaining his trust and that of his underworld cohorts by playing Bonnie to his Clyde while feeding back Information to the cops. - Director:
- John Gilling
- Cast:
- Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Underdown
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When a young girl vanishes near a derelict naval station in St. Oswald, a fantastic series of events is set in motion which sends teenagers Simon Randall and Liz Skinner back in time. It also re-awakens the nightmare faced by Liz's father who was stationed there at the time as his former commanding officer turns up in St. Oswald seeking answers to the situation and creating questions about his true motives. - Director:
- John Cooper
- Cast:
- Cheryl Burfield, Spencer Banks, Denis Quilley
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Cloak Without Dagger (1956)Operation Conspiracy
At the Hotel Maychester in London, fashion reporter Kyra Gabaine (Mary Mackenzie) is reunited with her war-time lover Felix Gretton (Philip Friend). Gretton was a rising intelligence officer in Brussels when his wartime relationship with Kyra compromised security and in the post-war years he is now a hotel waiter. Kyra believes she has seen a fugitive spy in the hotel and recruits store detective and retired Scotland Yard inspector Fred Borcombe (Leslie Dwyer) to investigate the suspect, now posing as dress designer Peppi Gilroudian (John G. Heller). The only clue they have to go on is a note mentioning Stanwell, the UK atomic research facility, but their investigations uncover a web of espionage and intrigue! - Director:
- Joseph Sterling
- Cast:
- Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer
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Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum) are two detectives on a mission to safeguard the structure of Time. Not human, and not 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 I
In a cold and remote house by the sea, a young girl has nursery rhymes read to her by her parents. Downstairs her brother does his homework. One by one the clocks stop and then the grown ups disappear…
Assignment II
A ghost hunter, Tully, makes contact with the spirit of a WWI Soldier and in doing so arouses the wrath of Darkness, an evil force that feeds off the resentment of people who have died prematurely.
Assignment III
A couple from the future occupy a time capsule in the present day. Time, resentful and bitter, begins to menace them, transforming their young child into an adult.- Director:
- Shaun O'Riordan
- Cast:
- David McCallum, Joanna Lumley, Steven O'Shea
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Bedelia Carrington (Margaret Lockwood) is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington (Ian Hunter). But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney (Barry K. Barnes), begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money knows no boundaries, and will kill for it. - Director:
- Lance Comfort
- Cast:
- Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes
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1950s romantic comedy about a gang of incompetent thieves who hide €20,000 of stolen jewels in a deserted barge on the River Thames only to find that when they come to recover the jewels the barge is now occupied by two models! Late one evening in Chelsea footsteps echo along a deserted cul-de-sac. The lone figure is that of 'Posh' Peterson (Charles Farrell), a notorious thief. He has with him a bag filled with stolen jewels which he hides in a barge named the Hornet's Nest, moored on the River Thames. Unknown to Peterson he has been observed by two elderly ladies and a week later two attractive models (June Thorburn and Marla Landi), move into the Hornet's Nest with the help of Bob Bartlett (Paul Carpenter). The incompetent thieves, with the help of various disguises, attempt in vain to recover the jewels, with hilarious consequences! - Director:
- Charles Saunders
- Cast:
- Paul Carpenter, June Thorburn, Marla Landi
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Based on a true story, 'The Flemish Farm' tells the story of the demise of the Belgian Air Force in the spring of 1940 and the amazing resilience of the fighter pilots who were forced to abandon their country and continue the war against the Nazis from England. As German forces sweep across France and Belgium, the remains of the Belgian Air Force are ordered by their government to surrender. The regimental colours are honourably buried, rather than surrendered to the Germans before the few remaining pilots escape to England. Following the Battle of Britain one of the pilots Jean Duclos (Clifford Evans), returns to Belgium, now under Nazi occupation, to recover the colours from the farm where they were buried. Will Duclos's dangerous mission restore some pride to his suppressed countrymen or end in tragedy? - Director:
- Jeffrey Dell
- Cast:
- Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter
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