Reginald H. Wyer

Algo misterioso está ocurriendo en la isla de Fara. Es noviembre y las temperaturas son tan elevadas que el calor ha calcinado campos y hombres. Todo es un caos: el sistema eléctrico está saturado y provoca la caída de las líneas de teléfono y la explosión de los aparatos eléctricos. Ante la aparición en la isla de extrañas criaturas que irradian grandes dosis de calor, la población huye aterrorizada.

En la isla de Petri, cerca de la costa de Irlanda, un error científico origina una raza de diminutos monstruos que se alimentan de huesos, convirtiendo a sus víctimas en masas gelatinosas. Para investigar los hechos, llega desde Londres un equipo dirigido por el doctor Brian Stanley

Cuatrocientos años después de morir en la hoguera, un diabólico conde vuelve a la vida mediante un rito de magia negra. A partir de ese momento, sembrará el pánico junto a su diabólico grupo de adeptos.

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

El Dr. Davidson (Neville) investiga junto al Dr. Monroe (Mitchell) y al Prof. Lancaster (Stone) una extraña fórmula. Cuando el Dr. Monroe fallece en circunstancias extrañas, un Superior del Gobierno, el Mayor Clarke (Newell), decide suspender a Davidson del proyecto y se interesa por la mujer de éste (Licudi) pensando que podría estar involucrada.

Norman Taylor es profesor de Psicología en la pequeña y prestigiosa universidad británica de Hempnell. Allí vive plácidamente con su esposa Tansy, disfrutando de una acomodada posición y de un notable prestigio académico: sus alumnos lo adoran y sus compañeros lo admiran (y envidian). Un fin de semana, Norman descubre que su mujer realiza pequeños rituales mágicos y confecciona amuletos con los que pretende proteger su hogar y la carrera de su marido frente a las asechanzas externas. Racionalista y escéptico, Norman la obliga a a abandonar esas actividades y a rechazar cualquier tipo de superstición. Sin embargo, a partir de ese momento, la tranquilidad desaparece y sus vidas llegan a adquirir tintes trágicos.

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!

The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.

The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.

Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.

Un policía encargado de ocuparse de la delincuencia juvenil se enamora de la hermana de uno de los cabecillas.

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

Después de la Segunda Guerra mundial (1939-1945), un cardenal (Alec Guinness) es acusado de haber traicionado a su patria. Es un hombre de carácter y voluntad férrea. Su interrogador (Jack Hawkins), un hombre benevolente en apariencia, recurre primero a la amabilidad para hacerlo hablar, pero acaba sirviéndose de pruebas falsas, trucos sucios y diversas formas de crueldad para conseguir su objetivo. Sin embargo, parece que nada consigue doblegar al prelado.

A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.

Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.

El científico de cohetes americano Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff) trabaja para conseguir su objetivo de enviar el primer satélite artificial al espacio. Mientras tanto, Vanessa Mitchell (Cecile Chevreau), su esposa, está manteniendo una aventura con el científico Crenshaw (Andrew Osborn). Poco después de que Mitchell descubra esa relación, el satélite es lanzado antes de lo previsto y a su vez, su esposa y el amante desaparecen. Mitchell es acusado de asesinato y de haber dejado los cadáveres en el satélite. Para probar su inocencia, se ofrece voluntario para ir en busca del satélite.

Un científico diseña una máquina que es capaz de duplicar a las personas, de manera que él y su amigo puedan amar sin ninguna complicación a la misma mujer.

London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

Frances es una reputada entomóloga que, debido a sus grandes conocimientos sobre virus y bacterias, es requerida por el servicio secreto británico para realizar una peligrosa misión. Debe viajar a un país imaginario de los Balcanes e investigar un nuevo tipo de armas bacteriológicas que supuestamente está desarrollando el enemigo.

Dos hermanos ingleses (David Tomlison y Jean Simmons) visitan París con motivo de la Exposición Universal de 1889. Después de instalarse en un lujoso hotel, por la noche van al Moulin Rouge, donde ella pasa una agradable velada, pero él siente un enorme malestar. A la mañana siguiente, ella comprueba estupefacta que tanto su hermano como la habitación que ocupaba han desaparecido. Sin embargo, en el hotel todos le aseguran que ella llegó sola. Nadie cree en sus palabras, excepto un joven (Bogarde) a quien el desaparecido había prestado cincuenta francos la noche anterior.

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

"Cuarteto" es una película británica con cuatro segmentos, cada uno basado en una historia de W. Somerset Maugham. Cada segmento es presentado por el autor. Fue un éxito y eso propició producir dos secuelas "Trio" (1950) y "Encore" (1951), y popularizó el formato de película de compendio. Los guiones de las historias fueron escritos por R. C. Sherriff.

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.