James Bawden

20세기 초기에 벌어졌던 이탈리아와 리비아 사이의 20년 전쟁이 이 영화의 소재이다. 이 영화는 실화이며 등장인물도 역사적 실존 인물의 실명을 그대로 활용하고 있다. 20세기 초, 당시 끊임없이 벌어졌던 강대국의 제국주의 전쟁은 아프리카에서도 예외가 아니었다. 영국은 이집트를, 프랑스는 튀니지아를, 스페인은 모로코를 점령했다. 그런데 이탈리아는 1910년부터 리비아를 침공하였으나 29년까지 교착상태에 빠진다. 그러자 무솔리니는 새 지후관 그라치아니를 파견한다. 한편 그의 상관 베드윈족의 지도자 요마르 무크타르로서 전직은 교사이며 적을 물리치는 것만이 평화로 가는 유일한 방법이라는 코란의 정신을 이어받아총을 들고 나선 탁원한 전술가이다. 이탈리아군에 의한 무자비한 양민학살이 지속되지만 무크타르는 사막전과 산악전에서 뛰어난 전술로 현대병기로 무장한 이탈리아군을 계속 패퇴시킨다. 평화라는 미명하에 작전상의 협상이 벌어지고 전쟁은 계속된다. 결국 이탈리아군은 리비아 사막 수백 마일에 4천 명의 인부를 동원해 수천 톤의 철조망 작업을 행하영 베드윈족 5천명을 강제 수용소에 수용하고 무크타르를 생포해 공개리에 교수형에 처함으로서 1931년 9월 16일 전쟁을 종결한다.

Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.

London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.

Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.

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.

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.

A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.

On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.

In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.

After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.

At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.

캐나다의 전투기 조종사 포레스터(Forrester: 그레고리 펙 분)는 두 명의 부하와 함께 비행기 고장으로 버마의 황무지에 불시착하게 된다. 세 사람은 살아남기 위해 힘을 합쳐 사방에 도사리고 있는 위험을 피해 황무지를 벗어나야 하는 상황이지만 부하들은 그들의 지휘관인 포레스터의 판단능력을 믿을 수가 없다. 그도 그럴 것이 지난 몇 달 동안 포레스터는 과거에 폭격당했던 충격 때문에 불안한 정신상태를 보여 왔고, 더구나 자살 비행도 서슴지 않고 감행하는 노이로제 환자였기 때문이다. 그러나 현지의 아가씨를 사랑하게 되면서 삶에 대한 희망을 되찾은 포레스터는 놀라운 투지를 발휘, 온갖 어려움에 맞서 싸우며 부하들과 함께 버마의 황무지를 탈출하게 되는데...

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.