denry's - Rented List

Sir Percy (Barry K. Barnes) - alias the Scarlet Pimpernel - is being pressured by his wife, Marguerite (Sophie Stewart), to retire from his daring escapades. The French still want the Pimpernel's head, however, and so set a trap for him involving the bold rescue of a Spanish actress and her lover!

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At the end of the Second World War, David (Edwin Richfield) and his Australian friend Johnny (Don Sharp) return to David's Suffolk village to find the community spent and demoralized. Gradually, however, they gather support for David's scheme to enter a yachting race with a converted fishing smack.

Winning it could prove to be a lifeline for the village...

Fred Astaire stars with Paulette Goddard in this 1940 musical romantic comedy. The plot features rival trumpet players vying for the attentions of the same girl. The classic jazz soundtrack is provided by Artie Shaw and his band who play themselves in the film.

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A charming romantic comedy with Fred and Emily Hill (Henry Kendall and Joan Barry) inheriting a fortune that gives them the opportunity to shed their boring existence in London and live a life that until now they could only dream about.

So together they decide to book a world cruise; something they had always wanted to do but could never afford. With all their troubles behind them, or so they think, they embark on their voyage without a care in the world. But it is a very different life on board a cruise liner from the one they've been used to at home. The people are different... they're not so friendly, and some are so snooty they don't even talk. But undeterred they make the most of their time on the high seas and cocooned in their new life of privilege find themselves getting that romantic feeling again, although the results of this long forgotten pastime lead to comical consequences.

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Richard Hearne (Mr. Pastry) stars in this 1951 Nettlefold production made at Walton Studios. Directed by the ever present Maclean Rodgers and written by Michael Pertwee from a play by Veron Sylvaine. Typical Mr. Pastry, a mixture of the "littleman" and slapstick not unlike the late Norman Wisdom.

The woman owner of a dress shop gambles the shop away to her bookie who inherits not only the shop but Mr. Pastry (the manager) and his assistant Miss Penny (Petula Clark). Roles are reversed in this caper and all ends well...

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The ever-suave David Niven and legendary Hollywood actress Loretta Young take centre stage in the 1939 movie Eternally Yours, a romantic comedy drama in which Niven plays the role of a magician who is suspected by his wife (played by Loretta Young) of pulling more than rabbits out of his hat! The

Niven-Young silver screen partnership is truly magical as the two battle to save their onscreen marriage. Young believes that her magician husband's career is getting in the way of their marriage. She becomes jealous of his professional status and popularity and soon becomes convinced that he has other things hidden up his sleeve.

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Adapted from Arthur Pinero's relentlessly popular stage farce 'The Magistrate', 'Those Were the Days' was a perfect early vehicle for the comedic brilliance of Will Hay. Hay's feature-length debut is a typically entertaining study of the upstanding but ineffectual magistrate, Mr.

Poskett (Will Hay), while a youthful John Mills is the 20-year-old stepson who must pretend to be 15 to preserve the secret of his mother's falsified age; Angela Baddeley and veteran character-comedians Claude Allister, H.F. Maltby and George Graves are among an impressive supporting cast.

A young man joins the Auxiliary Fire Service in Blitz-era London. He soon finds himself part of a brave and dedicated team of volunteers who constantly risk their lives in the burning streets of the bomb-battered city...

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Major Bright (Basil Radford) and Captain Early (Naunton Wayne) are two hapless intelligence officers in the British army in post war Germany.

Sent back to England for a spot of leave they fail to notice that their new batman is actually war criminal Otto Fisch (Maurice Denham) and when he vanishes the two officers are quickly demobbed. Back on Civvy Street our two heroes set up a private detective agency, 'Bright and Early'. When they are invited to a weekend country house party for a cricket match they stumble across a robbery plot involving a diamond that Fisch has stolen. Will the two detectives finally catch Fisch and recover the diamond?

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The peaceful village of Dolwyn is known for its friendly folk and its simple ways. But this idyllic retreat in North Wales is about to be thrown into utter turmoil thanks to the arrival of a ruthless water company.

Due to geological difficulties the only way to complete their planned reservoir is to flood the village of Dolwyn. The campaign is lead by an embittered local who has returned from the big city and is intent on destroying the place he once called home. Are the village residents capable of fighting the industrialists and saving their home? Or is this truly the last days of Dolwyn?

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Luigi (Cesar Romero), the owner of a Soho gaming club, falls for Barbara (Kay Kendall), a beautiful socialite whose husband is a compulsive gambler.

As their romance blossoms Luigi finds his former girlfriend murdered - with the evidence pointing in Barbara's direction! Under suspicion and on the run, he must find someone to help him before his luck runs out for good...

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Mike Billings (Vincent Ball) is a journalist working on 'exposures' of Mayfair gambling parties, but so far with little success.

When he manages to infiltrate his first gambling party he's horrified to see his girlfriend Jenny (Betty McDowall) there in the company of notorious gambler Lucky Lewis (Brian Worth). When the party is raided by the police, Jenny leaves with Lucky. Next morning Lucky is found dead and - Jenny admits that she went back to his flat for drinks...

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Paulette Goddard stars as Mrs. Laura Cheveley, the femme fetale plotting to sully the reputation of distinguished politician Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) to spite his wife, Lady Chiltern (Diana Wynyard). Holding secret information that Chiltern's reputation and wealth was founded illicitly, Mrs.

Cheveley blackmails him into a fraudulent scheme to build a canal in Argentina for her own personal gains. Powerless to object, Chiltern agrees, putting at risk both his prestigious reputation and his standing as an 'ideal husband'.

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After being jilted by his fiance, Arthur Pilbeam wants a job where he won't encounter women. He is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island which is being run as a meteorological station and he is to be the only inhabitant. However, Jane, a young girl, has stowed-away on his boat.

She is looking for her uncle on the neighbouring island. Then model Bobbie turns up - her boat has been torpedoed. With the arrival of another boat load of survivors, bringing the total occupancy of the island up to 13, things are getting a little crowded. That's when they all start to disappear, one by one...

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Simon Gale (Dennis Price) returns from Uganda to find his cousin, Margaret (Pamela Alan), has been convicted of poisoning her husband, and her execution is only seven days away.

Refusing to believe in her guilt, Simon and Margaret's stepdaughter Jill (Rona Anderson) set out to find the real killer, questioning everyone remotely connected with the dead man. As far as Simon is concerned, everyone is a suspect, and when the man who had promised him vital information is found poisoned, he believes he has solved the mystery...