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Before Bond there was Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond; fighter, lover, crime crusader, dashing daredevil and one hell of a good chap. He was Britain's answer to the hardboiled detectives of Hollywood and American pulp fiction. He was a man willing to risk everything to save the day and get the girl. Based on H.C "Sapper" McNeile's best selling second novel, The Return Of Bulldog Drummond is the sixth film adaptation in the popular series of truly thrilling action adventure movies. Starring British icons of stage and screen Ralph Richardson and Ann Todd. Bulldog Drummond has to keep his wits about him these days. Trouble is on the horizon and he's the only man qualified to deal with it. But after his own wife is kidnapped by a band of ruthless villains working for a corrupt arms dealer, retired army officer Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond may have to enlist the help of a few old friends. The mysterious organisation "Black Clan" are on a crusade to destroy criminal masterminds and are more than willing to help out our hero at large. - Director:
- Walter Summers
- Cast:
- Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Joyce Kennedy
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The Tardis lands on the Northumbrian coast, where new companion Steven discovers a Viking helmet and the Doctors deduces they must have arrived in the 11th century. Steven remains sceptical, especially when he and Vicki encounter what appears to be a Saxon hunter with a modern wristwatch. Investigating a nearby monastery, the Doctor discovers further anachronisms. Who is the mysterious monk observing the time travellers' every move, and why is he so interested in the outcome of the Battle of Hastings? - Director:
- Douglas Camfield
- Cast:
- Peter Purves, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Butterworth
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St. Martin's Lane / Talk About Jacqueline (1942)Comedy Capers Vol. 2: St. Martins Lane / Talk About Jacqueline
Double the comedy, double the fun!
Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
A girl with a chequered past tries to conceal it from her husband and lets her sister take the blame, hut confesses after a crash and all is forgiven.
St. Martin's Lane (1938)A London street entertainer teams up with a lady pickpocket who is a good dancer. This attracts the attention of a theatre owner and opens doors for troupe. - Director:
- Harold French
- Cast:
- Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, Joyce Howard
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Dr. Laurience (Boris Karloff) is a brilliant brain scientist who has made a startling discovery; he has learned how to transfer the thoughts and personality from one human to another. To help him with his experiments he recruits a former student, Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee), herself a brilliant scientist who shares his passion for his work, if not his ethics. Laurience is visited by a wealthy entrepreneur, Lord Haslewood (Frank Cellier), who makes him a proposition; Haslewood will fund all of the doctor's experiments, if he will agree to publish his results exclusively in Haslewood's newspapers. The promise of unlimited resources is too much for Laurience, and he agrees. However when the time comes to share his work with the London scientific community, the doctor is ridiculed, further fuelling his madness. To gain revenge Laurience constructs an evil plan which will help him achieve immortality, a plan which results in murder. - Director:
- Robert Stevenson
- Cast:
- Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
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Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies from the 80s". They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression - lifting production numbers. The put-on-a-show plot spins merrily, full of snappy banter and new faces Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. The show-stopping numbers (Shuffle off to Buffalo, You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me and the title tune) still dazzle. Looking and sounding its best in years via this new digital transfer from the restored original camera negative and optical audio tracks, 42nd Street shows good times never go out of style. - Director:
- Lloyd Bacon
- Cast:
- Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
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The rape she suffered as a teenager continues to haunt young Italian girl Maddalena (Phyllis Calvert), so much so that she develops a split personality. Her double life as the wife of a successful wine merchant and a Gypsy woman leads her into a treacherous relationship with a criminal ringleader (Stewart Granger) preying on tourists visiting the city of Florence. - Director:
- Arthur Crabtree
- Cast:
- Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc
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Pete Fleming (John Bentley) is a Private Detective called into service by Denis Clayton (Alexander Gauge), an advertising executive whose wife recently committed suicide. Clayton wants to trace one of his photographers who he believes has stolen some of his late wife's jewellery. As Fleming begins to investigate, it becomes clear the case is actually far more complicated and sinister than it first appeared!! - Director:
- John Gilling
- Cast:
- John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh
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As the Napoleonic War rages, the Scots Highlanders are forced off their ancestral lands by unscrupulous landlords and driven almost into the ocean. Trapped on the bleak and barren North-East coast of Scotland, they have to pursue the one thing of value to be found there...the rich shoals of herring. Setting out on merciless seas in tiny boats, they risk their lives daily to give their families hope...When young Catrine (Helen Shingler) loses her husband to a navy press gang while he pursues the herring, she sets out to make a fresh start for herself. But Roddie (Clifford Evans), the new man in her life, is the skipper of a herring boat and she must learn to live with the fear of losing him too. As her son Finn grows to manhood, she recognises that the sea is in his very blood. Catrine will try anything to prevent Finn from taking to the ocean, but there seems no alternative - and she may one day lose both the man she loves and her own son to the treacherous ocean swell... A two-year labour of love by writer and director Clarence Elder and star and associate director Clifford Evans, The Silver Darlings is a sincere and stirring tribute to the men who forged the Scottish fishing industry with raw courage, determination and vision. With its stunning use of natural Highland locations, it also offers a visual celebration of the Scottish coastline that has seldom been equalled. - Director:
- Clarence Elder
- Cast:
- Norman Williams, Christopher Capon, Murdo Morrison
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Love's A Luxury (1952)
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
What A Carry On! (1949)Comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo's comic routines come thick and fast.
This film was another blockbuster from Mancunian Studios but was considered lost until a poor quality print was uncovered. This shortened version is the only record of the Jewel and Warriss partnership. Despite its variable quality, it has been added as a bonus feature for their many fans.- Director:
- John E. Blakeley
- Cast:
- Derek Bond, Hugh Wakefield, Michael Medwin
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Betty (Betty Balfour) is a spoilt rich girl who leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father's (Gordon Harker) champagne business. However, when she decides to elope with her fortune-hunting suitor, daddy decides that enough is enough: He tells her that his business has crashed and that there's no more money. Betty must now must face the glamourous 1920's from a very different perspective and discover the world of work - how will she cope? - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten
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The Dark Eyes of London (1939)The Human Monster / Dead Eyes of London
A series of mysterious drownings in the Thames set Scotland Yard on the ghoulish trail of one of London's most sinister murderers!- Director:
- Walter Summers
- Cast:
- Bela Lugosi, O.B. Clarence, Hugh Williams
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Humphrey Proudfoot (Robertson Hare) is a class-conscious solicitor whose daughter falls in love with the son of a disreputable greyhound owner Alfred Gilbey (Stanley Holloway) who lives in the same apartment building. After Humphrey fails to convince his daughter not to marry the young Gilbe he decides to employ a private investigator in order to dig up some dirt on the womanising gambler. But his sneaky shenanigans backfire when Gilbey turns the tables and discovers Proudfoot's first love Emily (Irene Handl). When Emily turns up at the same time as Gilbey's mistress Gloria, the two men suddenly find themselves on the same side as they struggle to keep their two women away from their wives. - Director:
- Charles Saunders
- Cast:
- Robertson Hare, Stanley Holloway, Vera Pearce
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Further Up The Creek Serves Up Nautical Naughtiness Aplenty! Crikey! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs! First to go is HMS Aristotle the secret shame of the Fleet! Under the temporary command of Bosun Dibble (Frankie Howerd), the ship is a hive of vice with its crew willing to do anything to make a few quid. When they hear they will be sailing for the Mediterranean nation of Algerrocco, they see one last chance to make a few bob by pretending their frigate is really a luxury cruise liner and selling tickets! Of course, new Captain Humphrey Fairweather RN (David Tomlinson) knows nothing of the crew's schemes, but with a wild bunch of passengers including Thora Hird chasing the Bosun and Shirley Eaton threatening to strip off and sunbathe, how long can he be kept in the dark? The sequel to the Hammer Films' smash hit comedy Up The Creek. - Director:
- Val Guest
- Cast:
- Thora Hird, David Tomlinson, Lionel Jeffries
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Charles (Emlyn Williams) and Barbara (Lesley Brook) are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..! - Director:
- Thomas Bentley
- Cast:
- Emlyn Williams, Leonora Corbett, Lesley Brook
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Anthony Mann's taut "Railroaded" (1947) tells the story of a sinister cover-up in which an innocent young man is framed not only for a robbery, but also for the accidental murder of a cop. Hugh Beaumont (later on "Leave It to Beaver") plays the detective in charge, and the great, creepy John Ireland plays the lead criminal mastermind. Sheila Ryan plays the sweet girl, and Jane Randolph plays the tough-talking dame. - Director:
- Anthony Mann
- Cast:
- John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont
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