Patricia Laffan

A look at the history of British B-movies.

Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.

Adaptation from Tolstoy's novel.

A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.

When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

폭군 네로(Nero : 피터 유스티노브 분) 황제는 방탕하고 퇴폐적인 생활을 하면서 신흥 종교인 기독교에 대한 무자비한 탄압을 시작한다. 전투에 큰 승리를 거두고 부하들과 함께 로마로 행진하던 마커스 비니키우스(Marcus Vinicius : 로버트 테일러 분)는 네로 황제가 로마 시내에서 큰 잔치를 연다는 이유로 로마 시외곽에서 기다리게 되는데, 궁정의 타락한 축제에서 아름다운 리지아(Lygia : 데보라 커 분)를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 네로의 황녀는 비니키우스의 남성다움에 반해 그를 사랑하나 그가 리지아와 사랑하는 사이임을 알고 네로에게 기독교도들을 잡아 처형하도록 사주한다. 로마에 대화재를 일으킨 네로는 그 죄를 기독교인들에게 씌어 많은 기독교인이 붙잡혀 사자의 밥이 된다. 리지아를 구하기 위해 원형 경기장에 뛰어든 비니키우스....

A doctor is framed for murder.

Crime Mystery directed by Lionel Tomlinson.

Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.