Leighton Lucas

Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un grupo de soldados y enfermeras cruzan el desierto en una destartalada ambulancia con la intención de llegar hasta Alejandría. En el camino recogen a un misterioso personaje. (FILMAFFINITY)

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.

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.

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

Un hombre que es buscado por la policía, acusado de haber matado al marido de su amante, se refugia en casa de su amiga Eve, a la que confiesa que la verdadera asesina es su amante, la actriz Charlotte Inwood. Eve decide investigar por su cuenta, pero cuando conoce al detective encargado del caso comienza a enamorarse...

A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.

A sculptor is tortured from childhood by jealousy of the son of the woman who had him trained, but marriage and a family cures him.

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

Documental sobre la vida cotidiana de los habitantes de las islas de Aran. Muestra la lucha diaria por la supervivencia, el enfrentamiento entre el hombre y la naturaleza y, sobre todo, la dureza del trabajo en la mar, realizado por unos hombres que consideran que morir ahogado es el tributo obligatorio que hay que pagar al monstruo del mar. Se centra en las tareas cotidianas de una familia de isleños: hacer hoyos en la roca viva y llenarlos con tierra para poder plantar en ellos sus escasos cultivos, la recolección y transporte de algas, la salida de los hombres al mar, el sufrimiento y la constante amenaza de peligros y privaciones.

En un tren expreso un grupo variopinto de personas se ve envuelto en una trama de ladrones y chantajistas, tan rápida como el mismo tren. El grupo, entre otros, está formado por una estrella de Hollywood y su publicista, una pareja adúltera, un filántropo, un obsesionado golfista, un aprensivo y dos bandidos que persiguen a otro.