Desmond Dickinson

The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her rich uncle to live in his country mansion but she soon finds herself persecuted by the apparent visitations of an unsettling stranger. Who is this man from nowhere and just why is he tying to scare her away?

A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...

During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew. The film was withdrawn from distribution shortly after it's release and is considered to be lost and may have been destroyed after the director died.

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders have taken place. Not believing that their friend could be the perpetrator of such acts, they press on with their search, finding him under the spell of a beautiful Vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of sado-masochism. Believing they have killed her, the group return home, unaware that their friend is now a Vampire.

Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical experimentation, she manages to communicate with him and domesticate him before he's let loose by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorizing the local citizenry.

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...

성에 관심이 많은 15살의 영국 소녀 루시는 홀로 자신을 키우던 엄마가 죽자, 엄마와 어린시절부터 친구였던 남자의 집에 들어가게 된다. 루시는 엄마와 관계가 좋지 않았지만 그녀의 죽음은 그녀를 불안하게 만들었으며, 호의를 베푼 남자를 미워하게 되고 그의 부인을 유혹하게 된다.

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

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

희대의 연쇄 살인마 ‘잭 더 리퍼’는 런던 화이트 채플 지역에서 매춘부들 살해하고 달아난 인물이다. 셜록 홈즈와 그의 친구이자 조수인 왓슨 박사가 이 사건을 맡게 되는데 병리학적 연구를 통해 홈즈는 살인마가 외과 의사와 비견될 정도로 의술에 능한 자라는 사실을 알게 된다. 그리하여 여러 증거들을 통해 의학을 공부하다 매춘부와 결혼한 뒤 자취를 감춘 한 귀족의 아들을 범인으로 의심한다. 홈즈는 빈민가에서 조사를 하던 중 경찰 외과의로 근무하는 저명한 사회주의자인 머레이 박사가 런던의 가난한 자들에게 생필품을 공급하려 최선을 다하고 있다는 걸 발견한다. 그는 용의자 명단에 머레이 박사와 그의 조수 샐리 영, 술집 주인이자 집배원인 맥스 스타이너를 올린다. 피할 수 없는 마지막 대결을 통해 살인범은 정체를 드러내는데....

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.

An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.

A London accountant (Herbert Lom) forms six gangs into a syndicate which he tries to control with a killer (Sean Connery).

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

식물학자인 데커 박사(Dr. Charles Decker: 마이클 고호 분)는 아프리카에서 비행기 사고의 생존자로 귀환하면서 조그만 침팬지 콩가와 식인초를 가져온다. 그는 식인초에서 추출된 약물을 콩가에게 주입 100ft의 거대한 괴물로 만들어 정적을 살해하는데 이용하지만 조수 마가레트(Margaret: 마고 존스 분)의 순간 잘못으로 약물을 너무 많이 주입하여 걷잡을 수없이 커진다. 이에 데카의 통제를 벗어난 콩가는 미친듯이 날뛰기 시작하는데....

대학교수 앨런은 17세기 매사추세츠 화이트우드에서 일어난 마녀에 관한 전설을 이야기한다. 수업을 듣던 밸로우는 이야기에 흥미를 느끼고 레포트 작성을 위해 앨런 교수가 알려준 화이트우드로 향한다. 마녀에 대한 정보를 모으던 중 밸로우가 사라지고 그녀를 찾기 위해 오빠와 그녀의 연인이 함께 화이트우드로 향한다. 영국을 대표하는 호러 영화 제작사인 아미커스사의 대표작으로 안개가 자욱한 흑백이미지와 서스펜스가 넘치는 이야기가 매력적인 작품이다. 마녀의 전설이 가득한 마을에서 사라진 밸로우를 찾는 과정은 서스펜스를 자아내고 마을을 연신 감싸는 안개는 흑백영화 특유의 명암과 조응해 아름다운 이미지를 만들어낸다. (한국영상자료원)

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.

While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.

A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.

At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.

Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.

고향인 시골 마을에 살고 있는 잭 워딩은 있지도 않은 동생 어니스트를 돌본다는 구실을 대고 정기적으로 런던을 방문한다. 잭에게는 시골에 감춰두고 몰래 돌보는 젊고 아름다운 여인 세실리가 있는데, 잭은 어니스트로 행세하며 그녀를 만난다. 그런데 잭의 가장 친한 친구인 앨저넌이 그의 이런 속임수를 알게 된다

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.

덴마크의 왕자 햄릿은 부왕이 서거한지 한달도 안돼서 어머니인 게르트루드 왕비가, 왕좌를 차지한 작은 아버지 클라우디우스 왕과 결혼하자 어머니에 대한 심한 배신감으로 괴로워 한다. 그런 햄릿 앞에 부왕의 유령이 나타나, 동생인 클라우디우스에게 살해됐음을 밝히면서 복수를 부탁한다. 아버지의 원수를 갚기위해서 작은 아버지를 살해해야 하는 의무감과 자신의 우유부단한 무력감, 그리고 어머니에 대한 사랑 사이에서 갈등을 겪는 햄릿은 결국 정신 착란 증세까지 보이게 된다. 왕의 고문관 폴로니우스는 햄릿의 그런 방황이 자신의 딸 오필리아와의 이루지 못하는 사랑 때문이라 생각한다. 공연을 하기위해 성에 들어온 집시들에게 아버지의 살해 사건을 연극으로 꾸며 재현하게 만든 햄릿은, 그 연극을 보고 크게 당황하는 클라우디우스왕을 보고 더욱 의심을 굳힌다. 어느날, 왕의 침실에서 어머니 게르트루드 왕비를 비난하고 또 설득하던 햄릿은, 이를 엿듣던 폴로니우스를 클라우디우스왕으로 오인하고 죽이고 만다. 이 사건을 계기로 클라우디우스왕은, 아무도 모르게 햄릿을 죽여버릴 음모를 세우고 그를 영국으로 추방한다. 그러나 그 계획을 눈치챈 햄릿은 위험에서 벗어나 무사히 덴마크로 다시 돌아온다. 한편, 사랑하는 사람의 칼에 아버지를 잃은 오필리아는 절망감에 빠져 미치더니 결국 스스로 목숨을 끊고만다. 오필리아의 죽음에 충격을 받은 햄릿. 오필리아의 오빠 라에르테스는 아버지와 동생의 죽음에 대한 분노로 햄릿에게 결투를 청한다. 클라우디우스왕은 또다시 그 간교한 계략으로 라에르테스의 칼끝에 독을 묻히고, 그래도 햄릿이 이길 경우를 대비해서 결투 후 승자가 마시게될 술에도 독을 탄다. 왕과 왕비, 모든 신하들이 모인 자리에서 숙명의 결전을 벌이는 햄릿과 라에르테스. 라에르테스는 자신의 칼에 깊게 찔린다.

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.

A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live music and theatre performances in various English locations.

Tommy Trinder promotes the virtues of the wartime communal British Restaurants.

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.

Two young jazz guitarists cannot believe their luck when they are stumbled upon by their idol while playing in the park.

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.

'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)

A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.

A Commissionaire is suspected of a robbery committed by his son.

'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)

A crime film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon...

A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring

A British crime film directed by G.B. Samuelson.

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

A British drama film directed by G.B. Samuelson

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)

A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart

A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.

A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter.

A film directed by Sinclair Hill.

Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).