John Gregson

Life in Merseyside, showing the role of the region's two newspapers, the Liverpool Daily Post and the Echo. The story of the production of the newspapers is interwoven into the lives of the Merseysiders.

Una mujer contrata a una joven como babysitter para que cuide de su pequeño hijo. Pero las cosas se distorsionan por completo cuando la chica se ve acosada por el marido, que se ha fugado de un asilo para enfermos mentales y está en busca de su esposa e hijo.

Melodrama on ice

En Varsovia, durante los primeros días de la ocupación alemana, en 1940, una prostituta es salvajemente asesinada. Un testigo afirma que el asesino ha sido un general alemán, al que no vio el rostro, pero sí el uniforme. El mayor Grau es el encargado de investigar el caso. Sin embargo, sólo tres generales en Varsovia carecen de una coartada. Los tres generales se verán implicados en el asesinato de la prostituta. Todas las investigaciones apuntan a que ha sido un alto cargo del ejército y el caso queda archivado hasta que la justicia descubre al verdadero psicópata.

Reconstrucción con todo lujo de detalles de uno de los episodios claves para el desarrollo de la II Guerra Mundial: el desembarco en las playas de Normandía llevado a cabo por las tropas aliadas en junio de 1944.

A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.

Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters.

Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.

Una película sobre los extorsionistas y las guerras de pandillas en el West End de Londres. Paddy Damion (Sean Connery) es un ladrón atraído por el mafioso Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks) para apoyar a su compañero de andanzas que ha sido herido en un robo. Pero se mantiene alerta con él y, aunque tiene una novia, seduce a la hermosa Anya (Yvonne Romain), la amante de Zhernikov (Herbert Lom) jefe de la banda. El detective Sayers (John Gregson) está dedicado a enfrentar el crimen organizado.

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patricia Bredin) on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.

A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un grupo de soldados ingleses, que son enviados al Norte de África, deben realizar una misión previa a una acción de mayor envergadura. Una vez en el desierto, descubren que los alemanes están preparando un ataque por sorpresa.

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens.

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.

En los primeros años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la Royal Navy libra una batalla desesperada para mantener abiertas las rutas de convoyes en el Atlántico y poder abastecer a las islas británicas, enfrentándose así al gran peligro que suponen los numerosos buques de guerra alemanes que, como el Admiral Graf Spee, recorren el océano en busca de cargueros que hundir.

Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.

A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

II Guerra Mundial. La marina de guerra británica se encuentra amenazada por el acorazado alemán Tirpitz. Con una gran potencia de fuego, sobretodo sus ochos cañones de 381 milímetros con alcance de hasta 34 kilómetros, este acorazado podría acabar fácilmente con sus líneas de suministros marítimos, siendo este un riesgo que Inglaterra no puede consentir. Resguardado en el fiordo de Trondheim, Noruega, es imposible atacarlo con una oportunidad de éxito. Pero el Comandante Fraser (John Mills) propone un ingenioso y arriesgado plan. Su idea consiste en llegar a Trondheim camuflados con un pesquero noruego y una vez próximos al objetivo usar tres submarinos de bolsillo experimentales que deberán depositar bajo su casco varias cargas explosivas subacuáticas.

Narra tres relatos en clave fantástico de tema sobrenatural: una fantasma regresa a una galería de arte, en la segunda una chica es asesinada y en el último un Lord es castigado por el recuerdo de un hombre al que humilló.

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.

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.

Alan McKim, un joven abogado, decide participar en el Rally Anual de coches antiguos de Londres a Brighton con su Darraq de 1904 llamado Genoveva. Wendy, su esposa, opina que la carrera es una tontería y un símbolo de inmadurez. Ambrose Claverhouse, amigo del joven matrimonio, decide competir con Alan en el Rally: Rosalind Peters, antigua novia de Ambrose, será su acompañante. Una carrera llena de tropiezos y sorpresas está a punto de empezar...

Un pequeño pueblo inglés está a punto de perder su estación de tren, por lo que decidirán unir esfuerzos y hacerla funcionar ellos mismos, compitiendo con la compañía local de autobuses.

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.

The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

Hace veinte años que el tímido Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) se encarga de supervisar el traslado de los cargamentos de oro del banco inglés en el que trabaja; pero llega un momento en que, harto de su gris y anodina vida, idea un ingenioso plan para llevar a cabo un espectacular robo en el banco: se trata de trasladar el oro de Inglaterra a Francia en forma de souvenirs de la Torre Eiffel.

El capitan William Bones, un viejo lobo de mar, llega enfermo a la posada de la madre de Jim Haxkins y antes de morir, entrega a Jim el mapa del tesoro del pirata Flint, recomendándole que esté prevenido contra el hombre de la pata de palo. Jim se lo cuenta todo al Sr. Trelawney y al doctor Livesey y juntos deciden emprender la búsqueda del tesoro. Contratan una tripulación y parten hacia la isla donde está escondido el tesoro. En mitad de la travesía, Jim se da cuenta de que la mayoría de la tripulación son piratas de Flint y de que el cocinero, un hombre con la pata de palo, llamado John Silver el largo, es el antiguo contramaestre de Flint, contra el que le previno el capitán Bones. Al llegar a la isla, los piratas, al mando de John Silver se amotinan y emprenden la lucha contra Jim, Trelawney, Livesey y los marineros fieles, para conseguir el mapa del tesoro

A police chief stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant, he attempts to block the smugglers' passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country.

In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un barco cargado de whisky naufraga en una isla de Escocia. Los isleños, que no han podido beber alcohol desde hace tiempo, empiezan a idear toda clase de estratagemas para burlar a las autoridades y apoderarse del cargamento.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Historia del explorador Robert Falcon Scott y su intento de ser el primero en llegar al Polo Sur.