Diana Dors

The highs and lows, transitions and reinventions, of Diana's career as one of Britain's most well known and celebrated post-war actresses, including contributions from family and friends.

British cinema's original sex symbol, Diana Dors, left her £2 million fortune in various bank accounts, their details and locations revealed by an apparently uncrackable cipher. In this documentary, everyone from her son Jason Dors Lake to the legendary code-breakers of Bletchley Park try to solve the mystery.

Steaming is the final film directed by Joseph Losey. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play by Patricia Losey and Nell Dunn. It is about three women who meet regularly in a steam room and decide to fight its closure.

Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box

Documentary about The Company of Youth, The Rank Organisation’s training school for aspirant film actors, nicknamed The Rank Charm School.

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

A married couple, lost in the woods, stumbles across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old woman and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for victims. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.

Professional astrologer and lothario David Galaxy (Alan Lake, aka Mr Diana Dors), finds himself entangled with the Law and must be able to provide an alibi to clear himself from an incident that involved robbery and murder five years previously.

Historical comedy, showing what happened to Helen of Troy after the Trojan War.

While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.

Con todo el mundo - amos, amantes, sirvientes - sin cesar metiéndose en la cama con los demás no es de extrañar Cockshute Castillo esté en quiebra. Se organiza un matrimonio de conveniencia para el hijo o la hija de la casa con alguien rico, a menos que la membrana de caucho de la India recientemente inventada por el hijo tenga algún uso.

Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

Un aristócrata victoriano compra un antiguo manicomio y lo convierte en un "nido de amor". Sin el saberlo, Jack el Destripador vive en pasajes secretos que bordean el edificio.

A pregnant girl stays with her aunt and is forced to share a room with a mysterious male lodger.

A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to them, the woman is a devil-worshiper who sets out to steer the young girl down the path of evil.

Randy Milkman Davey muerde más de lo que puede masticar cuando empieza a entregar más de litros de leche a algunas de las amas de casa aburridas en su ruta. En un corto espacio de tiempo que se encuentra comprometido con dos mujeres diferentes, en el lado receptor de una paliza del gángster local, cuya novia ha sido él con Davey de dos tiempos, y finalmente termina en la corte por un cargo de violación cuando un marido furioso llega a casa inesperadamente y descubre que Terry y su esposa en una situación comprometedora.

Neal Mottram es un anticuario que esconde en el sótano de su tienda un valiosísimo tesoro: una escultura africana que le proporciona suerte y riqueza; pero, a cambio, tiene que ofrecerle sacrificios humanos.

Una tienda de antigüedades del este de Londres, regentada por un enigmático anciano, es el nexo de unión de las distintas historias de cuatro de sus clientes. Cada uno de los objetos que se llevan de la tienda del anticuario esconde una terrorífica sorpresa que sirve de escarmiento a aquellos que han tratado de engañar o perjudicar al anciano.

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price), prestigioso actor de teatro inglés, especializado en los personajes de Shakespeare, se siente muy humillado, cuando el Círculo de Críticos de Londres se niega a concederle un prestigioso galardón. Lleno de ira, planea meticulosamente una insólita venganza: eliminar, uno a uno, a todos los críticos que despreciaron su talento, eligiendo en cada caso un tipo distinto de muerte, todas ellas inspiradas en las obras de Shakespeare.

Tres administradores de la fundación Van Traylen que acoge niños huérfanos, han sido hallados muertos durante los últimos meses. Aunque las muertes parecen suicidios, el coronel de policía Bingham, encargado del caso, cree que han sido asesinados por motivos económicos. Pero tras investigar, se dará cuenta que algo aún más oscuro atrás...

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.

Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ring leader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam's shows always feature her bodacious nieces Susanna and Karen, who perform in everything from striptease to S&M acts. Karen meets and eventually runs away with a rich guy. Susanna falls in love with a deceptive airport cargo handler. After several more kinky shows and various soft core sex scenes, Karen is gone and Susanna and her man find out the truth behind each others lies.

Ana se convierte en la ayudante del cazarrecompensas Tom Price, para que le enseñe el oficio, a perseguir a fugitivos y a usar el revólver, de manera que pueda cazar y matar a los tres hombres que mataron a su marido y la violaron.

Robert Danvers es famoso gracias a su programa de cocina emitido por televisión. Utiliza su fama para conseguir a las mujeres más deseadas de Inglaterra, a las que utiliza básicamente como objeto sexual. Un día conoce a una muchacha llamada Marion, de la que se enamora. El pequeño problema es que su ex novio también quiere reconquistarla.

Londres, Inglaterra. Mike, un chico de quince años, consigue trabajo en una casa de baños, donde conoce a Susan, una atractiva joven que trabaja allí como encargada.

When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.

Un agente estadounidense ha rastreado la fortaleza de un cerebro criminal malvado, decidido a tomar el control del mundo .

A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.

Después de haber estado toda la vida dedicado al contraespionaje, un agente inglés decide retirarse a descansar. Sin embargo, antes de abandonar definitivamente su profesión, debe realizar una peligrosa misión.

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !

Beckett es un tullido emocional que va de trabajo en trabajo, de mujer en mujer, incapaz incluso de amar a su madre. Por él se interesa Dyce, quien desea desembarazarse de su tía y piensa que él es el hombre adecuado para el trabajo...

Two convicts escape from prison, complicating life for their widowed mother when they return home to hide out.

La vida del gangster Arnold Rothstein, que se enriqueció rápidamente gracias a las salas de juego de su propiedad. Sus amores y el odio que le profesa un policía, mientras hasta sus mejores amigos le abandonan.

El soldado Ernie Williams tiene un asombroso parecido con el general MacKenzie-Smith, lo cual le lleva a hacer algunas parodias ante sus camaradas que no pasan desapercibidas para el alto mando. Estando amenazado de muerte el general, la idea de los jefes del ejército es la de hacer pasar al pobre Ernie por general y así preservar al verdadero. Ernie se las debe ingeniar para salvar el pellejo, lo cual le lleva a situaciones de gran comicidad.

El inglés Oliver, de turismo por España, descubre una conspiración para asesinar a Sally Kennedy, una norteamericana también turista. Oliver inicia una investigación donde conocerá a extrañas personas.

Un taxista se enamora de una muchacha francesa y la libera de una red de tráfico de blancas.

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

Un ejecutivo publicitario descubre que su trabajo entra en conflicto con su amor por una modelo.

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.

Tras obtener el permiso para marcharse del Ejército en Alemania, Harry va en busca de su mujer a Inglaterra, donde tiene un trabajo como conductor de camiones. Pronto su jefe intentará involucrarlo en una operación de contrabando. Al principio se resiste, pero Harry le ofrece a la bellísima Lynn a cambio.

A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.

Mary Price Hilton, una joven que ha sufrido muchos desengaños amorosos, encuentra por fin a un hombre que parece quererla de verdad, pero cuando lo sorprende con otra mujer, queda muy trastornada

En un barrio londinense de clase baja, el pequeño Joe vive con su madre en un piso situado sobre la sastrería del señor Kandinsky. Joe sueña con ayudar a los pobres a cumplir sus deseos. Un día el sastre le cuenta un cuento según el cual quien capture a un unicornio podrá obtener cualquier deseo. Joe decide entonces gastar sus ahorros en la compra de un cabritillo con un cuerno emergente, creyendo que se trata de un unicornio. Sus esfuerzos para hacer realidad los sueños demuestran el poder de la esperanza y la voluntad en medio de la adversidad.

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.

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.

El joven médico Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) ejerce su profesión en “El Loto”, un buque de carga dirigido por el autoritario y borrachín Capitán Hogg. Allí conoce a los personajes más excéntricos y se ve involucrado en situaciones bastante embarazosas. Cuando en Río ve a Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), una joven y atractiva cantante francesa, cae rendido a sus pies.

Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.

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.

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

Based on a 1944 West End stage success with Ralph Lynn, this is a classic bedroom farce for those who like them that way -- its theatrical origins acknowledged in the credits and clearly apparent when most of the action takes place with characters popping in and out of a single-room set -- enlivened by a sex-pot performance by Diana Dors as blackmailing first wife Candy.

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.

My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie’s ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug!

El director de una gran librería comete un desliz con una empleada. Cuando ésta traba amistad con un ex presidiario ambos trazarán un plan para chantajearle.

Marjory gana un premio de belleza en su ciudad y se encuentra desfilando como lady Godiva, aunque no del todo. Acaba compitiendo para el título mundial en Londres.

Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.

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".

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...

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.

A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.

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

Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Famosa adaptación de la novela homónima de Charles Dickens. Oliver es un niño huérfano al que su madre, una joven soltera, abandonó a las puertas de un orfanato. Para librarse de él, el malvado director de la institución, decide venderlo a un empresario como aprendiz de su taller. Cansado de los malos tratos que recibe, huye y acaba uniéndose a un grupo de pequeños rateros que viven bajo la férula de un viejo tiránico.

A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

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.

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.