Tim Turner
Nacimiento : 1924-09-07, Bexley, Kent, England, UK
Muerte : 1987-01-01
Narrator
This documentary in the Look At Life series – made by the Rank Organisation for screening in Odeon and Gaumont cinemas – was released in 1967 and anticipated a radical redevelopment of Piccadilly Circus, which never actually happened.
Narrator & Commentator
The building and launch of the British-made Blue Streak rocket.
Jason (voice) (uncredited)
Jasón ha profetizado dejar el trono a Tesalia. Pero Pelias le dice que viaje a Colchis y él sigue su consejo, navegando durante muchos días con los Argonautas hasta Grecia. Pero en su viaje se enfrentará con gigantes de bronce y toda serie de monstruos, aunque ellos tenían la protección de Hera, reina de los dioses.
Self - Commentator
The story of computers: from electronic tape and punched cards, to austere-looking robots.
Commentator
A short documentary about the tea drinking culture in the UK and the industry behind it.
Peter
Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Dutch Lieutenant
El 10 de Mayo de 1940 las tropas alemanas invaden Holanda. Los servicios de inteligencia británica ponen entonces en marcha una gran operación de carácter suicida: tres agentes británicos deberán llegar a Ámsterdam para recuperar la mayor cantidad posible de diamantes industriales antes de que la inteligencia alemana se apodere de ellos.
Third Officer Charles Groves
El novelista Eric Ambler adaptó el libro del historiador Walter Lord que relata minuciosamente la primera y última travesía del Titanic, el lujoso barco de pasajeros, que se hundió en las frías aguas del Atlántico Norte en abril de 1912.
Dr. Kenneth McColl
Un relato de misterio acerca de la investigación de macabros crímenes cometidos por un siniestro psicópata.
British Sergeant
Un grupo de mujeres inglesas, hechas prisioneras por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), tiene que ser trasladado de un campo de concentración a causa del elevado número de prisioneros. Custodiado por soldados japoneses, el grupo se pone en marcha a través de selvas pantanosas. Las enfermedades y el cansancio harán estragos tanto en las prisioneras como en los soldados nipones. En una aldea, de manera inesperada, encuentran a un aviador australiano que es un luchador nato.
Flight Lieutenant J. F. Leggo, D.F.C.
Los británicos están desesperados por acortar el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y proponen un atrevido bombardeo con el propósito de destrozar el corazón industrial de Alemania. Al principio, el objetivo parece imposible. Hasta que un científico británico inventa una ingeniosa arma capaz de destrozar al objetivo propuesto.
Frank Mason
When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler.
Alvarez - racer
An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.
Rupert
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un grupo de paracaidistas del bando aliado participa en peligrosas misiones contra el enemigo.
1st Reporter
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Tommy Dykes
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
Self - Commentator
A look cinema and its evolution regarding comfort and the different types of films that drew audiences in during the 1950's.
Self - Commentator
The film Fire Over London is about the operation of the London Fire Brigade. In an office's switchboard room we see one of the hideous T&N green and ivory telephones supplied by General Telephone Systems. Another shot deep in the bowels of St Paul's Cathedral gives a glimpse of a two-tone grey ATE 'Coffin Phone' as used on Communications Systems private exchange systems.
Narrator
Commentator
A look at the River Thames, its past and present, from source to the sea. An examination of what has been done and is being done to modernize port services and to keep traffic moving—from holiday pleasure seekers to bustling commerce.
