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Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film.
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American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee
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Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. England's most successful independent film company, the "fear factory" of Hammer Studios, has a history filled with feuds, censorship battles and streaks of luck both good and bad. Now the legacy of horror returns, featuring interviews with such Hammer legends as Raquel Welch, Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Hazel Court, Martine Beswicke, Freddie Francis, Val Guest and Ray Harryhausen. Plus you'll be treated to behind-the-scenes home movies and nonstop shock scenes from over 40 classic films, including Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Curse of the Werewolf and many more! It's the definitive study of one of the greatest names in horror!
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A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls.
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A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on his chest and begins to spread and turn into a condemning tattoo.
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A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past. This 75-minute TV movie first aired on the "Fox Mystery Theater" series.
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Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.
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Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.
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An attractive young widow thinks that she is investing in a respectable riding school, only to find out she has bought a brothel.
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When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
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When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
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A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the previous conductor is criticized for the false notes played by the brass band.
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Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle Sander. Suspects include the beautiful Marissa and boyfriend, who have a few surprises in store. Lord Sinclair and Danny then travel to Switzerland, where they have to help an elderly Duchess protect her jewels by finding proof of past marriage to a prince.
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Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to steal a diamond. He wants to implicate Bradley in order to bring him into contact with a certain Lewis who is preparing to rob the mine with the aid of a group of mercanaries and a local accessory known as Father Christmas. Webb, not being informed of the deceit, relentlessly pursues Bradley, who is contacted by Lewis. With the mercanaries in the process of penetrating the mine. Bradley reveals himself to be Father Christmas, the organiser of the entire operation...
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Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to steal a diamond. He wants to implicate Bradley in order to bring him into contact with a certain Lewis who is preparing to rob the mine with the aid of a group of mercanaries and a local accessory known as Father Christmas. Webb, not being informed of the deceit, relentlessly pursues Bradley, who is contacted by Lewis. With the mercanaries in the process of penetrating the mine. Bradley reveals himself to be Father Christmas, the organiser of the entire operation...
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Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.
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Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
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Película que juntaba en montaje dos episodios de la serie "Los Persuasores" (1971), en concreto los episodios 2 y 5 de la primera temporada.
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Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
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Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
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Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
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Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
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En un pasado remoto, los primeros hombres ofrecían sacrificios humanos a los dioses, tratando de descubrir los eternos misterios de la vida. Una chica consigue escapar de una muerte inminente y es rescatada por un guerrero de otra tribu. Su amor los condena al destierro, obligados a enfrentarse a sus semejantes, a los elementos y al impresionante poder de las criaturas prehistóricas.
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En un pasado remoto, los primeros hombres ofrecían sacrificios humanos a los dioses, tratando de descubrir los eternos misterios de la vida. Una chica consigue escapar de una muerte inminente y es rescatada por un guerrero de otra tribu. Su amor los condena al destierro, obligados a enfrentarse a sus semejantes, a los elementos y al impresionante poder de las criaturas prehistóricas.
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A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonaliser’ cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population.
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A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonaliser’ cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population.
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Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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James Bond, en su dorado retiro, se deja convencer por una delegación de las grandes potencias para participar en una investigación sobre la SMERSH, una misteriosa organización internacional que pretende acabar con la estabilidad mundial.
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James Bond, en su dorado retiro, se deja convencer por una delegación de las grandes potencias para participar en una investigación sobre la SMERSH, una misteriosa organización internacional que pretende acabar con la estabilidad mundial.
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James Bond, en su dorado retiro, se deja convencer por una delegación de las grandes potencias para participar en una investigación sobre la SMERSH, una misteriosa organización internacional que pretende acabar con la estabilidad mundial.
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A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
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A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
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A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
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A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
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A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
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A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
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A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
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A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
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A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
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Periodistas británicos sospechan del encubrimiento internacional de un desastre global en curso ... y tienen razón. El pánico histérico se ha apoderado del mundo después de que Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética hayan detonado simultáneamente artefactos nucleares y causado la alteración de la órbita de la Tierra, enviándola a toda velocidad hacia el sol.
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Periodistas británicos sospechan del encubrimiento internacional de un desastre global en curso ... y tienen razón. El pánico histérico se ha apoderado del mundo después de que Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética hayan detonado simultáneamente artefactos nucleares y causado la alteración de la órbita de la Tierra, enviándola a toda velocidad hacia el sol.
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Periodistas británicos sospechan del encubrimiento internacional de un desastre global en curso ... y tienen razón. El pánico histérico se ha apoderado del mundo después de que Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética hayan detonado simultáneamente artefactos nucleares y causado la alteración de la órbita de la Tierra, enviándola a toda velocidad hacia el sol.
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Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.
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Cuenta la persecución del criminal Don Starling recién escapado de la cárcel, tras dejar malherido a uno de sus carceleris, quien supuestamente tiene que pasar por Manchester, ya que allí deben estar guardadas las joyas que robó y que tratará de recuperar.
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Cuenta la persecución del criminal Don Starling recién escapado de la cárcel, tras dejar malherido a uno de sus carceleris, quien supuestamente tiene que pasar por Manchester, ya que allí deben estar guardadas las joyas que robó y que tratará de recuperar.
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Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics delighting audiences for over three decades from the early 1930s and their career taking in numerous Royal Command performances. Their efforts to save a struggling circus provide the laughs in this uproarious comedy, also starring Goldfinger icon Shirley Eaton and featuring Flanagan and Allen's rendition of their greatest hit, Underneath the Arches. The Crazy Gang have been jacks-of-all-trades with Joe Winter's Monster Circus for almost as long as Joe has been on the road, and they're still hoping for a big break. But Joe has hit hard times: his equipment is mortgaged, most of his acts have deserted him and even the elephants have walked out. So the Gang set about finding a way to save the circus... and come up with a typically novel solution!
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Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics delighting audiences for over three decades from the early 1930s and their career taking in numerous Royal Command performances. Their efforts to save a struggling circus provide the laughs in this uproarious comedy, also starring Goldfinger icon Shirley Eaton and featuring Flanagan and Allen's rendition of their greatest hit, Underneath the Arches. The Crazy Gang have been jacks-of-all-trades with Joe Winter's Monster Circus for almost as long as Joe has been on the road, and they're still hoping for a big break. But Joe has hit hard times: his equipment is mortgaged, most of his acts have deserted him and even the elephants have walked out. So the Gang set about finding a way to save the circus... and come up with a typically novel solution!
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A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Sitiados por el avance japonés en Birmania, el capitán Langford (Stanley Baker) y sus exhaustas tropas británicas se refugian en un pueblo enemigo en medio de la selva. A pesar de las protestas de un anciano sacerdote (Guy Rolfe) y del corresponsal de guerra Max Anderson (Leo McKern), Langford ordena al sargento McKenzie (Gordon Jackson) que dispare a dos aldeanos inocentes, con el fin de "persuadir" a un prisionero japonés a entregar información vital. Cuando los japoneses recuperan el pueblo, su comandante utiliza las mismas tácticas de guerra que había usado Langford, con el fin de extraer información de los británicos.
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The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
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The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
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Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
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Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
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Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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El científico John Rollason se une al implacable aventurero Tom Friend en la búsqueda del misterioso yeti. Cuando descubren que la criatura posee una gran inteligencia, la diferencia en la personalidad y la motivación de cada uno de los hombres, provoca un enfrentamiento entre ellos.
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El profesor Quatermass descubre por casualidad, investigando un área de mucha actividad de meteoritos, una instalación gubernamental secreta rodeada de fuertes medidas de seguridad. Aparentemente el misterioso complejo se dedica a la fabricación de comida sintética, pero Quatermass llega a la terrible conclusión de que los extraterrestres están invadiendo la Tierra usando esta instalación como tapadera. Para salvar al país y al mundo entero de los invasores, Quatermass deberá enfrentarse a peligros terribles con un final incierto.
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El profesor Quatermass descubre por casualidad, investigando un área de mucha actividad de meteoritos, una instalación gubernamental secreta rodeada de fuertes medidas de seguridad. Aparentemente el misterioso complejo se dedica a la fabricación de comida sintética, pero Quatermass llega a la terrible conclusión de que los extraterrestres están invadiendo la Tierra usando esta instalación como tapadera. Para salvar al país y al mundo entero de los invasores, Quatermass deberá enfrentarse a peligros terribles con un final incierto.
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Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
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Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
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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.
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Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
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Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
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In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
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Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
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A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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El primer cohete espacial británico ha despegado con éxito y vuelve a la Tierra, pero la comunicación se corta. Sólo uno de los tres astronautas permanece a bordo, y su salud, tanto física como mental está gravemente dañada. Es puesto bajo observación pero su esposa le saca del hospital, liberando de este una gran amenaza para la humanidad, ya que el sobreviviente está siendo consumido por una fuerza alienígena.
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El primer cohete espacial británico ha despegado con éxito y vuelve a la Tierra, pero la comunicación se corta. Sólo uno de los tres astronautas permanece a bordo, y su salud, tanto física como mental está gravemente dañada. Es puesto bajo observación pero su esposa le saca del hospital, liberando de este una gran amenaza para la humanidad, ya que el sobreviviente está siendo consumido por una fuerza alienígena.
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The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
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The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
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Un sabio atómico escapa de un país comunista y los servicios de espionaje tratan de encontrarlo ya que posee importantes documentos.
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Un sabio atómico escapa de un país comunista y los servicios de espionaje tratan de encontrarlo ya que posee importantes documentos.
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Inglaterra. 1194. El rey Ricardo Corazón de León está prisionero en Alemania después de luchar en las Cruzadas. Su hermano, el príncipe John, toma el trono en su ausencia. Un hombre aparece asesinado en el bosque de Sherwood y se culpa a Robin Hood. Robin no sólo es inocente sino que la víctima formaba parte de una misión para liberar al rey Ricardo y asegurar su vuelta a Inglaterra. Robin Hood tendrá que luchar por la liberación del rey Ricardo y por demostrar su inocencia.
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When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star. Drama.
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When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star. Drama.
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Based on their hit radio show, Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon starred in this British "Ozzie and Harriet" type show about "Life with the Lyons" with their two children, Barbara and Richard. On radio and TV, this series ran from 1950-61.
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When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
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When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
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When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
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A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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Una escritora de novelas de misterio (Bette Davis) está enamorada de un muchacho (Anthony Steel). Su marido, un presidiario, se fuga de la cárcel y se reúne con ella en los páramos del Yorkshire. Se enzarzan en una pelea y el marido muere. Otro presidiario (Gary Merrill, marido en la vida real de Bette Davis), que también se había fugado, ha visto lo ocurrido y llega a un pacto con la escritora: ocultará el cadáver y no la denunciará, si ella acepta que él se haga pasar por su marido hasta que las cosas se calmen...
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Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.
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Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.
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Una corista se convierte en estrella cuando corren rumores de su relación con un aristócrata al que no conoce.
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A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical she warns Rennie, but things are not what they seem.
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An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.
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An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.
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A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
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A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
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Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Garry Marsh. It is perhaps most notable for an early film appearance of Sid James, later to find success through the Carry On series.
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An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
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William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.
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William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.
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Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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Shaw is the south end of a horse for an ice show, but she longs to be a ballerina. It looks like she will achieve that goal, but will her oversized ego get in her way?
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In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
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In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
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Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
Writer
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee. When he finds out that, as custom demands, he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.
Director
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee. When he finds out that, as custom demands, he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.
Writer
Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.
Director
Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.
Writer
Arthur King se une al ejército y pronto comienza a fantasear con el Rey Arturo y sus caballeros.
Screenplay
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Original Story
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Screenplay
Artistas que luchan y que intentan montar un espectáculo se hacen pasar por sirvientes de una mujer adinerada con la esperanza de recaudar dinero.
Writer
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
Writer
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Writer
Un desventurado equipo de bomberos recibe el ultimátum: apagar un fuego con éxito o ser despedido. Fallan miserablemente, y su antiguo camión de bomberos es robado por criminales que intentan robar las joyas de la corona de la Torre de Londres.
Screenplay
El sargento de policía Samuel Dudfoot y sus dos agentes, Albert Brown y Jeremiah Harbottle simulan una serie de falsos crímenes con la intención de salvar sus empleos; sin embargo, se verán involucrados en la cruda realidad.
Writer
Un desgraciado director de escuela, Benjamin Twist, es confundido por un duro gobernante de prisión y es designado a cargo de una prisión de peligrosos criminales. Creyendo que es enviado a una escuela, éste lo celebra llegando a la conclusión de que se ha despertado de su borrachera en el lado equivocado de los barrotes.
Screenplay
Un inepto trabajador ferroviario es ascendido a jefe de estación en un remoto y aislado pueblo en el norte de Irlanda. Sus ayudantes serán un anciano y un joven insolente.
Writer
Un profesor de escuela y sus alumnos viajan a París y desarticulan una banda de ladrones.
Dialogue
Archie, un joven, hereda un establo para carreras de caballos, y su tía intenta convencerlo de que lo convierta en un hogar para chicas trabajadoras durante las vacaciones. Sin embargo, Archie es un jugador empedernido y, antes de que se dé cuenta, se mezcla con dos estafadores y una arena de lucha que acaba de quebrar.
Screenplay
Archie, un joven, hereda un establo para carreras de caballos, y su tía intenta convencerlo de que lo convierta en un hogar para chicas trabajadoras durante las vacaciones. Sin embargo, Archie es un jugador empedernido y, antes de que se dé cuenta, se mezcla con dos estafadores y una arena de lucha que acaba de quebrar.
Writer
Un joven va a trabajar de camarero en un hotel francés.
Newspaper reporter
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Gangster
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Party Guest
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane
