While London Sleeps (1926)
An Amazing Tale of Limehouse with "The Wonder Dog" in a new role
ジャンル : 犯罪, アクション, アドベンチャー
上映時間 : 1時間 3分
演出 : Howard Bretherton
シノプシス
Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse district of London.
1891年のロンドン。若い女性が次々と誘拐され、儀式を思わせる不気味な手口で殺されてしまう。私立探偵ホームズと相棒ワトソンはスコットランド・ヤードと連携し、邪悪な黒魔術を操る犯人、ブラックウッド卿を逮捕。だがブラックウッド卿は死刑の直前、すぐに復活すると言い残す。その後ブラックウッド卿が甦ったとの報せがホームズたちに届いたのに続き、世界征服をめざすブラックウッド卿は、ある秘密組織を乗っ取っていた。
西暦932年、アーサー王と従者パッツィは配下に加わる勇敢な騎士を探す旅をしていた。やがて行く先々で騎士たちと出会い、彼らを従えて聖杯探しの冒険へ旅立つのだが…。果たして彼らは数々の難関をくぐり抜け、聖杯を手にすることができるのか?
時は1872年、まだ飛行機も出現していない時代。イギリスはロンドンの社交クラブで、英国紳士フォッグ氏はひょんなことから“80日間あれば世界一周できる”という賭けにのり、なんと2万ポンドという大金を賭け、自ら大冒険に出ることになる。さっそくフォッグ氏はパスパルトゥーを従者に従えロンドンを出発する。マルセイユへ向かう途中、汽車が止まってしまい気球を調達して先を急ぐ。ところが気球は風に流されてスペインへ。そして、パスパルトゥーはそこで、闘牛をするハメになってしまう。
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
ヒッチコックが、イギリス時代の自作「暗殺者の家」をリメイク。あるフランス人の死に立ち会ったベンは、断末魔の男の口から某国の首相暗殺計画を知らされる。やがてベンの口を封じるため、彼の息子が誘拐されてしまう。ベンと妻のジョーは、暗殺者がひそむ教会へと乗り込んでいく……。D・デイの歌う“ケ・セラ・セラ”が非常に効果的に使われるサスペンス・スリラーの傑作。
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
イングリッド・バーグマンがアカデミー主演女優賞を受賞した、ジョージ・キューカー監督のサスペンス映画の古典的名作。美術・装置賞も受賞。共演はシャルル・ボワイエ。
叔母を何者かに殺されて傷心のポーラは住み慣れたロンドンを離れ、イタリアで暮らすことに。やがて月日が流れ、結婚したポーラは、夫と共に相続した叔母の家で新婚生活を始める。ところが、ロンドンに戻ったとたん、次々と不可解なことが起こり、ポーラは精神的に追い詰められていく…。主演女優のイングリッド・バーグマンにオスカーをもたらした、サスペンス映画の古典的名作。アカデミー美術・装置賞も受賞。
恋人である刑事フランクと喧嘩したアリスは、偶然知り合った画家の男に誘われるがまま、彼の家について行く。ところが、男に襲われそうになったアリスは、誤って男を殺してしまう。捜査の中でアリスが犯人だと気づいたフランクはとっさに証拠を隠すが、事件の真相を知った男が2人を恐喝するようになり……。
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both a price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with.
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.