Rent The Renown Pictures Crime Collection: Vol.4 (1963)
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Renown Pictures are delighted to present 'The Renown Crime Collection: Volume 4'. No less than 8 marvellous crime films with some terrific bonus features in this set!
The Boys (1962)
When the night watchman of a garage is found murdered, four young men are arrested and put on trial. Under cross-examination, suspects and witnesses give differing accounts of the same incidents that led up to the crime. After re-examining the suspects' statements, the prosecuting counsel finally learns the truth.
The Boys Reunion (2017)To celebrate the 55th Anniversary of the release of 'The Boys'.Talking Pictures TV presented a special film screening event at Elstree Studios, where the film had been made and reunited Dudley, Tony and Jess from the original film. Morris Bright hosted the live interview section and the question and answer panel that followed.The highlights of the event are presented in this exclusive programme.
Mysterious Mr. Nicholson (1947)
A change in a will, a murder and a mysterious letter. The police look to a former cat burglar to aid them in this strange investigation.
The Voice of Merrill (1952)
The story of four people directly and indirectly involved with the murder of a female blackmailer. The suspects are the girl's publisher employer; an up-and-coming writer, a brilliant established writer and his wife.
Operation Diplomat (1953)
Dr. Fenton (Guy Rolfe), surgeon operating on an unknown patient, discovers he is involved in the kidnapping of a British diplomat. When his personal secretary is murdered for revealing the patient's identity, the police under the investigation headed by Inspector Austin, are called in.
Port of Escape (1956)
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time during their short stint on land. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
Blind Spot (1958)
A former Army officer regains his vision and hunts smugglers who framed him when he was blind.
Lady of Deceit (1947) (AKA Born to Kill)
A calculating divorcee risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hot-headed murderer romancing her foster sister.
Checkmate (1935)
A Scotland Yard detective gets more than he bargained with a gang of London jewel thieves.- Actors:
- Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond, Frank Hawkins, Andrew Laurence, Douglas Stewart, George Bishop, Josie Bradley, Ivy Collins, Pat Ryan, James Regan, Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Jess Conrad, Dudley Sutton, Tony Garnett, Ronald Lacey, Valerie Hobson, Edward Underdown, James Robertson Justice, Henry Kendall
- Directors:
- Oswald Mitchell, Sidney J Furie, John Gilling, Sarah Cronin-Stanley, Anthony Young, Peter Maxwell, Robert Wise, George Pearson, John Guillermin
- Producers:
- Sidney J Furie, Gilbert Church, Sarah Cronin-Stanley, Herman Schlom, Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Ernest G. Roy, Lance Comfort, Anthony Havelock-Allan
- Narrated By:
- Morris Bright
- Writers:
- Francis Miller, Oswald Mitchell, Stuart Douglass, John Gilling, Terence Austin, Gerald Landeau, Francis Durbridge, A.R. Rawlinson, John Guillermin, Barbara S. Harper, Anthony Young, Abby Mann, Eve Greene, Richard Macaulay, James Gunn, Basil Mason, Amy Kennedy Gould, Kenneth R. Hayles, Robert S. Baker
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Documentary, Drama, Special Interest, Thrillers
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The Price of Crisps - The Renown Pictures Crime Collection: Vol.4 review by CH
A knife. This is – almost literally – at the heart of The Boys (1962), as it was at an earlier trial drama: Twelve Angry Men (1957). While that was confined to the jury's deliberation room one New York afternoon, Sidney Furie's London film not only takes place in a courtroom over which Felix Aylmer presides but it incorporates flashbacks, sometimes repeated, to scenes as recollected by witnesses of the events which ended with a night watchman killed.
Amidst those recollections are some by the four flashy youths accused of the crime, whose defence lawyer is none other than Robert Morley. This might sound preposterous but he, Groucho eyebrows and all, turns in as engaging a performance as the prosecuting counsel, Richard Todd.
At two hours, this has led some to say that it is a swollen production (although shorter than most trials); in fact, there is so much happening, with an array of character parts, including Steptoe as a lavatory attendant, that one's attention is continually engaged. Whether in the street, pub or atop a 'bus, the London of that era is wonderfully caught in a few moments of screen time. To say any more about the twists of events would be unfair: the title of this review gives an indication of the forensic detail.
Here is a film which should be far better known – and cherished for a Judge who asks, “what do you mean by yobboes?” This is on a level with the Judge who, a year or so later, would ask, “who are these Beatles?”
Another period detail. Nowadays, jurors are not allowed to wear hats. But in 1962, all of those three women upon the jury sported headgear.
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