fmj's - Rented List

Based on true events, 'The Highwayman' tells the story of one of the most notorious criminals in history - the infamous Dick Turpin. Outwitting the authorities at every turn, Turpin faces his biggest challenge following the failed robbery of a powerful Earl and the deadly consequences he faces. Has his luck finally run out?

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Chief Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and Sergeant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are called in to investigate the murder of a glamorous model. They discover that the murdered girl has led a chequered life and that her acquaintances include drug pushers.

Jordan Barker (Jeremy Brett) and Hammond Barker (Peter Arne) are reluctant to help but when the police finally make an arrest, another murder occurs in a seedy Soho Jazz cafe. But are the two murders connected? Birkett and Saunders have to move fast to unmask the real killer. But can they solve the model murders before time runs out and the killers make their escape?

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Now a newly-arrived citizen in British-occupied Hong Kong, Master Ip (Donnie Yen) wishes to open a Wing Chun academy to teach his unique style to a generation of new students, but is blocked by a corrupt group of martial arts masters led by Master Hung (Sammo Hung).

They refuse to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself as a kung fu master, including an East-versus-West fight to the finish against a boxer named Twister (Darren Shahlavi).

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Based on an old British radio show, The Brass Monkey' is a fast-paced British mystery and comedy thriller. Caroll Levis stars as a radio personality who attempts to prevent a connoisseur of Buddhist artifacts from stealing the priceless Brass Monkey.

The film is littered with stars such as Herbert Lom, Avril Angers and Terry-Thomas, but it is perhaps most famous for being the swansong of the beautiful Carole Landis. She committed suicide shortly after this film in a scandal that shook the film world.

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Let others select the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth.

When Miss Marple auditions for a spot in a repertory company, she lets rip with The Shooting of Dan McGrew! She gets the job (the manager thinks she has cash to invest in this floundering troupe), but she’s not giving up sleuthing for grease-paint and applause. She’s convinced one of her fellow actors is playing the part of murderer for real.

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When wealthy old mr. Enderby dies, his not-so bereaved relatives gather for the reading of the will. There amid the money and mahogany, aunt cora asks, "he was murdered, wasn't he?". The family tut-tuts such a distressing notion...

until cora is murdered and the tut-tuts turn to "who's next?" Margaret Rutherford is back on form and on the trail as sleuthing miss jane marple in this witty whodunit based on agatha christie's after the funeral. As in all rutherford marple mysteries, she's ably supported by Stringer Davis as the town librarian and charles tingwell as inspector craddock. But murder at the gallop has an extra attraction...robert morley who plays and enderby heir. Rutherford and morley are an engagingly comic pair, whether riding on horseback, gliding around on the dance floor, or trying to outfox each other.

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There’s something fishy about the HMS Battletore, a training ship designed to give young hoodlums a chance at new lives. When Miss Jane Marple goes aboard to investigate, she discovers it’s a training ship, all right: someone’s training the delinquents to be good thieves instead of good citizens.

And that someone would kill to keep the fact quiet! Murder may be at sea But Miss Marple never is in this sparkling mystery starring Margaret Rutherord as Agatha Christie’s endearing old-lady sleuth. Murder Ahoy features a rouge’s gallery of suspects and ingenious means of dispatching victims, including strychnine-laced snuff, a noose from a yardarm and a poisoned mousetrap. But Miss Marle prevail? Well, let’s just say it was a good thing she was Ladies National Fencing Champion of 1931!

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Jimmy Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid the fair village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance and bad man: Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). And as if all that weren't enough, the biggest star that ever aimed a six-shooter plays the man of the title: John Wayne.

Super-sincere Stewart and rugged rancher Wayne also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). One gets the gunman but the other gets the gal.

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One dark summers night, Francesca Cunningham (Ann Todd), a once world-famous concert pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. Rescued by Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lorn), Francesca is taken back to the hospital in order to undergo psychological treatment.

Desperate to know what events drove her to this state of mind, Dr Larsen hypnotises Francesca and uncovers a traumatic relationship with her domineering guardian, Nicholas (James Mason). Forced to endlessly practice the piano, Francesca's deep psychological traumas have become hidden behind The Seventh Veil...

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A ruthless kidnapper and blackmailer called Marlowe has abducted a young boy. After imprisoning the child in a deserted house, Marlowe gives him a toy golly for comfort. But hidden inside is a time bomb which is set to explode at tend the following morning.

Marlowe coolly drives to visit the boy's wealthy father and demands a ransom of £50,000 in order to have his son returned alive. Inspector Parnell and Sergeant Grey are called in when the boy's father decides to pay the ransom. But Inspector Parnell chooses to play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the kidnapper as the young boy plays with his new toy. Meanwhile the clock is ticking...

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Jim Gay (Wilfred Pickles) is a northern miner with an obsession for greyhound racing. Having seen Raving Beauty romp to first place at short odds because everybody had backed it, Jim decides to increase its odds for the big race by pretending that Raving Beauty is ill and unlikely to finish.

But keeping this a secret from his wife Maggie (Megs Jenkins) and daughter Sally (Petula Clark) is a tougher job than Jim Gay ever imagines. Whilst Jim and Peter (John Blythe) find ever more comical ways to keep their secret under wraps, their world is turned upside-down when an unknown but highly-fancied greyhound enters the race and is kennelled at the local vicar's house.

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Set in Foshan, China, during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight to the death for a precious bag of rice.

Defined by courage and humility, one man rises to die fore, Grandmaster Ip Man (Donnie Yen): a Wing Chun impresario, whose matchless fighting skill is revered all over China. Upon refusing to teach his beloved fighting art to the invading Japanese soldiers, he is forced to fight for the honour of his country in a series of battles that will culminate in a kill-or-be-killed showdown with Japan's greatest fighter.

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At the rough Worrell Street School in London's East End, the pupils are kept in line by the harsh discipline of the staff and the occasional savage beating.

An idealistic young schoolteacher (Max Bygraves) takes up his first post since leaving the navy and resists the authoritarian rule of his fellow tutor Gregory (Geoffrey Keen) and the headmaster Jenkins (Donald Pleasence). By playing on the youngsters' interests he tries to teach his unruly students the joy of learning and win their trust. At first he enjoys success with the wayward but bright Harkness (Richard O'Sullivan); but after a prank at Gregory's expense causes a riot amongst the pupils, Saunders clashes with the entrenched regime. The friction at Worrel Street leaves the headmaster with no choice but to support either the bullying practices of his staff, or the unproven ideas of the na'ive newcomer.

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Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings but Reggie prefers poetry to cricket.

And when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hope to marry.

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It is 1989 and Paris is crowded with visitors, for it is the eve of the opening of the 'Great exhibition'. Victoria (Jean Simmons) and her brother, Johnny (David Tomlinson), arrive to take part in the event. Leaving her brother at the bar, Vicky retires to her hotel room for the night.

Next morning she excitedly runs to see Johnny and is bewildered to find that both her brother and his room have disappeared. Her surprise turns to concern when all the staff and guests deny ever seeing her brother. The authorities refuse to believe her story, but by chance she meets a young English artist, George (Dirk Bogarde) who knows her story to be true. Together they must try to unravel the mystery.