Rent The Renown Pictures Crime Collection: Vol.1 (1964)
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10h 56min
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Over 11 hours of vintage crime drama in a stunning box set of 10 films.
A Gunman Has Escaped (1948)
A passer-by is killed during a robbery by three armed men, who then flee London. Shot in and around Maida Vale.
Boy with a Flute (1964)
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs. Winters (Freda Jackson) to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Death Goes to School (1953)
A rare old British mystery surrounding a strangulation at a school that needs Scotland Yard to investigate.
King of the Underworld (1952)A crook is implicated in blackmail, greec for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Adapted from the lost television series "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates".
Black Memory (1947)
Danny Cruff (Michael Atkinson) hobnobs with London's underworld after his father is wrongly convicted of murder.
Murder at 3 AM (1953)
A serial killer who makes a habit of murdering women on the street at precisely 3am is on the loose.
The Challenge (1960)
Billie (Jayne Mansfield) and Kristy (Carl Möhner) lead a gang of armed robbers who steal from banks, armoured cars, and the like. When Billie's lover, Jim (Anthony Quayle), gets caught by the police after stashing a large amount of money, they wait for him to get out of jail...
Passport to Treason (1956)
Orlando Syms (Clifford Evans) - an American private eye stationed in a very foggy London - takes over a difficult case, for the sake of a murdered friend. First cinema film for Andrew Faulds.
The Price of Silence (1959)
Roger (Gordon Jackson) forges a new life for himself after his release from prison. But his past soon catches up with him.
The Secret Man (1958)
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.- Actors:
- Freda Jackson, Ursula Jeans, Andree Melly, Bill Nagy, Richard Bidlake, Ernest Clark, Guy Doleman, Gerard Heinz, John Harvey, John Fitzgerald, Robert Cartland, Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Ingeborg von Kusserow, Michael Medwin, Michael Atkinson, Moyra O’Connell
- Directors:
- Montgomery Tully, Stephen Clarkson, Victor M. Gover, Oswald Mitchell, Francis Searle, John Gilling, Robert S. Baker, Ronald Kinnoch, Richard M. Grey
- Producers:
- Richard M. Grey, Harry Goodman, Montgomery Tully, Victor Hanbury, Gilbert Church, John Ainsworth, David Henley, John Temple-Smith, Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Maurice J. Wilson, Ronald Kinnoch
- Narrated By:
- Jeremy Hawk
- Writers:
- Montgomery Tully, John Gilling, Brian Clemens, Joyce Cairns, Maisie Sharman, Stephen Clarkson, John Ainsworth, Moie Charles, Kenneth R. Hayles, Norman Hudis, Paddy Manning O'Brine, Maurice J. Wilson, Laurence Meynell, Ronald Kinnoch
- Aka:
- A Gunman Has Escaped / Boy with a Flute / Death Goes to School / King of the Underworld / Black Memory / Murder at 3 AM / The Challenge / Passport to Treason / The Price of Silence / The Secret Man
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
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Summer's Noose - The Renown Pictures Crime Collection: Vol.1 review by CH
Watch a number of English films from the Fifties and one is not surprised to find Sam Kydd in a small part, whether a spiv or a desk sergeant, even a newspaper seller. How pleasing, then, to see The Price of Silence (1960) and find him given a chance to stretch out. Stretch is the word. He has been in gaol, and now notices, as a small-town sweet-shop owner, that a fellow prisoner (the mild-mannered Gordon Jackson) has changed his name by deed poll and shows prowess as an estate agent.
This brings dynamic to a film – the title suggests the pivotal blackmail – with a cast which includes two women who have amatory designs upon Jackson. One is his elderly employer's startlingly sultry young wife (Maya Koumani); the other June Thorburn, an artist who lives near a delapidated house Jackson has been deputed to try to sell.
From a novel by the dependable Laurence Meynell, this was directed by Montgomery Tully who made many such films. It is one of his best, bringing out to good effect such minor characters as a Councillor (Norman Shelley) whose indiscretion in a pub loses him the chance to make a killing by swinging the Planning Committee when it discusses a timber yard. One fully expects him to clasp his lapels, puff his stomach and proclaim, “don't you know who I am?”
The elements of the plot fit together plausibly, which is partly a matter of Tully's opting for a succession of jump cuts. The pace keeps up, nothing stales six decades on. In that time, June Thorburn died, pregnant, in an aeroplane crash but Maya Koumani is still alive.
In these boxes of nine-film sets, not every item is as good as this but they are invariably diverting, and there is sometimes such a surprise as The Price of Silence.
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