denry's - Rented List
-
Investigating the disappearance of an eminent scientist, the Doctor and his companions follow his trail to the London headquarters of International Electromatics, a global supplier of electronic equipment run by the formidable Tobias Vaughan. Teaming up with the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce - UNIT - under the command of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, it soon becomes apparent that Vaughan is working to his own sinister agenda. As Cybermen invade in cities all over the world, can the Doctor convince Vaughan to help him defeat their plan for global domination? - Director:
- Douglas Camfield
- Cast:
- Patrick Troughton, Sheila Dunn, Frazer Hines
- Formats:
-
-
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever. - Director:
- Max Varnel
- Cast:
- Ronald Howard, Christina Gregg, Basil Dignam
- Formats:
-
-
There Is Another Sun (1951)Wall of Death
A most entertaining film showing Britain in the fifties. In this early work with the help of an excellent cast, the director shows his skills in making a fairly simple plot most entertaining. Laurence Harvey is 'Mag Maguire' a likeable fairground boxer and Maxwell Reed, 'Eddie Racer' a motorbike daredevil rider. The mutual love interest is the lovely Susan Shaw. - Director:
- Lewis Gilbert
- Cast:
- Susan Shaw, Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey
- Formats:
-
-
A later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, 'The Man Between' is often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and mistrust The action is transposed to a divided Berlin, and to the beginning of the Cold War. Unlike the devilish Harry Lime, Mason's world-weary dealer Ivo Kern is ultimately still a decent man, compelled by his love for a naive schoolteacher (Claire Bloom) to make one last misguided trip through the Brandenburg Gate, with potentially tragic consequences. - Director:
- Carol Reed
- Cast:
- James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
- Formats:
-
-
Jet Storm (1959)Jetstream / Killing Urge
When Ernest Tilley's (Richard Attenborough) daughter is killed in a hit-and-run, he vows he'll do what it takes to avenge her death. Armed with a homemade bomb he tracks down the killer to an airport and boards the same flight. Once in the air, he threatens to blow up the plane. As they desperately try to find the bomb the dramatic story of each of the other passengers unfolds. Emotions run high as they confront the reality of their situation. A husband confesses to cheating on his wife. Romance blossoms between two flight attendants. A divorced couple realise that they're still very much in love and a widow admits that she never loved her wealthy husband. Up in the air their fate now lies in their own hands. Can Ernest, a man who has lost everything, be stopped in time? - Director:
- Cy Endfield
- Cast:
- Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, Stanley Baker
- Formats:
-
-
Salute the Toff (1952)Brighthaven Express
Worried when her boss goes missing secretary Fay, (Carol Marsh) seeks the help of society sleuth "The Toff" (John Bentley). The Toff finds a dead body... and is attacked in a hotel during his search for missing boss Draycott (Tony Britton). Aided throughout by Inspector Grice (Valentine Dyall) and The Toffs wonderfully camp butler (Roddy Hughes). - Director:
- MacLean Rogers
- Cast:
- John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Valentine Dyall
- Formats:
-
-
'Floodtide' is a romantic drama from 1949 directed by Frederick Wilson, about the son of a Scottish farmer who dreams of a life in the city. Against his father's wishes, David Shields (Gordon Jackson) obtains a job in the shipyards where his flair for design moves him swiftly up the ladder. This is resented by many of his colleagues, as is his impatience and dislike for performing menial tasks. However, David designs a revolutionary ship which impresses his boss (Jack Lambert), whose daughter (Rona Anderson) he is deeply in love with. Will he succeed in all he wishes to achieve? - Director:
- Frederick Wilson
- Cast:
- Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie
- Formats:
-
-
The Dark Man (1951)Jeffrey Dell's The Dark Man
Dark and Brooding 1950s British thriller starring Edward Bnderdown as Inspector Viner of Scotland Yard sent to a sleepy English seaside town in Kent to investigate a brutal double murder, only to fall in love with the killers' next target. Following the murder of small-time black-marketeer, Mostyn, the shadowy 'Dark Man' (Maxwell Reed) also kills the one person who can identify him; a taxi driver who drove him to Mostyn's farmhoese. After shooting the driver in a secluded wood another eye-witness passes by, budding actress Molly Lester (Natasha Parry). Inspector Jack Viner (Edward Underdown) is assigned to the case and swiftly falls in love with Molly. Meanwhile, the 'Dark Man' continues to shadow Molly. Will Viner catch the 'Dark Man' before he commits his third murder? - Director:
- Jeffrey Dell
- Cast:
- Edward Underdown, Maxwell Reed, Natasha Parry
- Formats:
-
-
Dulkis: planet of harmony and enlightenment. Home to the peaceful Dulcians. An oasis of calm in the cosmos - and completely defenceless. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive to find Dulkis enslaved by the cruel Dominators and their deadly robotic servants, the Quarks. The pacifist Dulcians offer no resistance. Can even the Doctor save a people who are willing collaborators in their own destruction? - Director:
- Morris Barry
- Cast:
- Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury
- Formats:
-
-
When childhood friends and army comrades Dave Robinson (Bill Rowbotham) and Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) return home from WWII, they make very different choices for their new civvy lives. Ted gets an honest job as a taxi driver, and saves for his wedding to childhood sweetheart Joy (Sheila Sim). Dave, however, wants easy cash and soon becomes involved with a gang. When Dave runs into money troubles with the mob boss, a henchman is sent to finish him off. Stumbling from his gun wounds, he seeks shelter in the back of Ted's empty taxi and collapses, lifeless. Suspicions fly as Scotland Yard investigates the murder. The police suspect Dave's underworld connections. The mob suspects that Ted knows their guilt. And Ted himself suspects who the real killer might be... - Director:
- John Paddy Carstairs
- Cast:
- Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim
- Formats:
-
-
Penniless husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) looks like he is losing his scatterbrained wife, Gerry (Claudette Colbert) to multi-millionaire John D. Hackensacker (Rudy Vallee) when she walks out on him and heads for fun and sun in Palm Beach, Florida. They become involved with any number of outrageous characters, played by many of the Sturges regulars in hilarious cameos. The witty, sparkling dialogue, poking merciless fun at, amongst other targets, money and sex, is unforgettable. - Director:
- Preston Sturges
- Cast:
- Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor
- Formats:
-
-
'Scarlet Thread' was one of his earliest works and he displays his obvious talent in this production. Laurence Harvey stars as a small time crook looking for the high life and Sydney Tafler as an educated gang boss living the high life - both take part in a robbery that goes wrong. Good scenes of Cambridge and supporting cast Harry Fowler, Kathleen Bryon and "good time girl" Dora Bryan make for an enjoyable British crime drama. - Director:
- Lewis Gilbert
- Cast:
- Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey, Sydney Tafler
- Formats:
-
-
An archaeologist forsakes his fiancee for a passionate affair with a beautiful young German woman. But lla has more than love on her mind... While the film's star, Nadja Tiller, was unknown in Britain, she had starred in many German films and was Miss Austria in 1949. Ha's foreignness is key and Margaret's slightly prim glamour is no match for her continental seductiveness. But the promise of sex masks something more dangerous and giving her body so freely signals lla's emotional deadness. Mike learns his lesson the hard way. - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix
- Formats:
-
-
Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt, and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor, the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the Bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) who has fabricated the letter in her final column, is rehired, and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional "John Doe." Gary Cooper is perfectly cast as Long John Willoughby, an injured and penniless former baseball pitcher lured into impersonating "John Doe" with the promise of medical treatment. In what would have undoubtedly been an Oscar winning performance, were it not for his own success that same year in Howard Hawks' "Sergeant York," Cooper excels himself here as Willoughby's initial indifference to his undertaking turns to genuine concern at his role. But, as he becomes an increasingly culpable pawn in an ever more treacherous game, just how can "John Doe" redeem himself? - Director:
- Frank Capra
- Cast:
- Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
- Formats:
-
-
Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire) is a beautiful young girl who has not uttered a word since childhood. She works as a servant for old, ailing Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) in the Warren family mansion. When a sinister spate of murders involving 'women with afflictions' hits the neighbourhood, Helen believes she's the next victim. One night, a storm breaks and Helen realises the killer is in the house with her. Unable to scream for help, what can she do to save herself? And just who is the psychotic killer? - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
- Formats:
-