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Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons star in this compelling thriller set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London. As he buries his wife in a rain-soaked London churchyard, Stephen Lowry thinks he has committed the perfect murder. He's wrong. His quick-witted young maid Lily knows that he secretly poisoned his wife - and she has the proof. Now, as the price of her silence, she wants her mistresses' jewels, her mistresses' fine dresses and - most of all - her master himself. Can Stephen give Lily the love she craves? Can she trust a man who has already murdered once? As Stephen begins to court another woman, the thick London fog suddenly echoes to the cries of 'murder!' Featuring real life husband and wife Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons at the height of their international stardom, 'Footsteps in the Fog' is a first rate murder thriller with shocking twists that will keep you guessing until the very last moments. - Director:
- Arthur Lubin
- Cast:
- Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
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My Forbidden Past (1951)Carriage Entrance
A passionate romance, starring Ava Gardner as a beautiful heiress driven to extreme lengths when her dreams of true love are cruelly thwarted. New Orleans, the 1800's: Barbara Beaurevel (Ava Gardner) inherits a fortune from her grandmother, a woman with a notorious reputation. Barbara pledges to use the money for good works but her noble intentions are quickly tested... Barbara's in love with Dr. Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum); when he returns to the city with a new bride, Corinne, Barbara becomes desperate. She pays her wicked cousin Paul to seduce Corinne, hoping Mark will then abandon his wife. But when Corinne is murdered, Mark is blamed. Only Barbara can save him but she could lose everything if she does. - Director:
- Robert Stevenson
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- Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
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Returning to his beloved native Yorkshire to take up the proprietorship of the Westdale Gazette, James Hadleigh (Gerald Harper) quickly finds that the day-to-day running of the newspaper throws up the thorny issues of public allegiances, the right to privacy, and potentially libellous reporting. From the controversy surrounding hunting to police cover-ups, local economics to corruption in high places, there is no shortage of newsworthy stories or delicate dilemmas for Hadleigh and his team. - Director:
- David Andrews
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- Jon Laurimore, Gillian Wray, Michael Blackham
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Betty Hutton (Annie Oakley) and Howard Keel (Frank Butler) star in this sharpshootin' funfest based on the 1,147-performance Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlin's beloved score, including Doin' What Comes Natur'lly, I Got the Sun in the Morning and the anthemic There's No Business like Show Business. As produced by Arthur Freed, directed by George Sidney and seen and heard in a new digital transfer from restored elements. This lavish, spirited production showcases songs and performances with bull's-eye precision, earning an Oscar for adaptation scoring. The story is brawling boy-meets-girl-meets-buckshot rivalry. But love finally triumphs when Annie proves that, yes, you can get a man with a gun! - Director:
- George Sidney
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- Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern
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Martin Clifford (Spencer Banks) lives in a quiet English village and is busy studying for his 'A' levels when he suddenly finds himself at the centre of a dangerous international espionage plot. Beneath the outwardly calm surface of Redlow lies an intricate network of spies and counterspies, with the focus of attention the USAF base nearby - soon to become the communications centre for top-secret NATO exercises. Martin, commissioned by British Intelligence to help uncover enemy agents in the village, finds his life balanced precariously on a tightrope; one false move on either side, and he could fall to his death. - Director:
- Ron Francis
- Cast:
- John Savident, Spencer Banks, David Munro
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The original 1967 master recordings of 'The Macra Terror' were lost soon after the programme's original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated reconstruction of this lost classic. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his companions (Jamie, Polly and Ben) arrive on a human colony in the far flung future. The colony outwardly appears to be happy and carefree. But behind its cheerful exterior, the colony has been secretly infiltrated by a race of giant parasitic creatures called Macra. The Macra brainwash the human colonists to mine toxic gas in the levels below the colony. Ruling the settlement from a control centre in the heart of the main city, they scuttle around at night looking for food. The Doctor's friend Ben is soon taken over by the Macra and under their malign influence, he turns against the Doctor. As their influence spreads, the Doctor sets out to bring an end to the Macra terror. - Director:
- John Davies
- Cast:
- Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Anneke Wills
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Patrick Troughton stars in this recreation of a lost classic from 1967. The Tardis has been stolen. Marooned on Earth in the year 1966, the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) set out to find the missing time-machine. Their investigations bring them to a mysterious London antiques shop, where all the antiques all seem to be brand new. Kidnapped by the antique shop's owner, the Doctor is then brought face to face with a very old enemy - the Daleks. Working from a house in Victorian England, the Daleks have a new masterplan to conquer the universe. And in order to carry it out, they need the Doctor's help. The original 1967 master recordings of 'The Evil of the Daleks' were lost soon after the programme's original transmission. However, audio-only recordings of all seven episodes have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated presentation of this lost classic. - Director:
- Derek Martinus
- Cast:
- Patrick Troughton, Peter Hawkins, Roy Skelton
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The letter of the title is written with a poisonous pen: the three women (portrayed by Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, and Ann Sothern) receive a note stating that one of their husbands has run off with a woman named Addie Ross - which husband in particular, however, remains unmentioned, though each husband had their own affinity for Ross. And so amid the women's mounting anxiety commences a series of flashbacks, each telling the story of how the three individual marriages had come in their own way to be so strained at the present... - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Celeste Holm, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell
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The Doctor (Voice of William Hartnell) stars alongside his travel companions Vicki (voice of Maureen O'Brien) and Steven (voice of Peter Purves) which sees the Tardis landing on a planet on the verge of total annihilation as it drifts too close to the three suns which its orbits. Trapped on the planet with them are the Drahvins, a race of warrior women, and the reptilian Rills. The Drahvins want to steal the Rill spaceship to escape the planet's death throes, and enlist the Doctor's help, which he is forced to give when Maaga, the cunning Drahvin leader, keeps first Vicki and then later Steven as her hostage. Even though the Doctor is determined to broker a peace deal between the two sides in this conflict and help everyone escape safely, Maaga doesn't trust him. Or the Rills... - Director:
- Chloe Grech
- Cast:
- William Hartnell, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves
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Based upon the popular series of novels written by Herman C. McNeile, the dashing, debonair, daredevil, proto-Bond private detective Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Lodge) returns to the silver screen in his ninth movie adventure. 'Bulldog Drummond at Bay' finds our fighting hard, playing hard, living clean hero opting for the quiet life in an old country house in the English countryside. But it isn't long before intrigue and danger decide to give him a visit. An evil arms dealer is after the plans for a supersonic, super secret warplane and kidnaps its inventor. It's up to Bulldog Drummond to save the day in his own inimitable way in this engrossing, action packed adventure. - Director:
- Norman Lee
- Cast:
- John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory
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The Tardis arrives in London, 1966, where the Doctor and Dodo visit the recently opened Post Office Tower. At its top they discover a brilliant new problem-solving super computer - the Will Operating Thought ANalogue. But when Wotan decides that it should rule the world, the Doctor is the only person who can stop its rampaging War Machines from destroying London. Luckily, he has the help of a young secretary called Polly and a sailor called Ben... - Director:
- Michael Ferguson
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- Ric Felgate, Michael Craze, John Rolfe
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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