Leslie Phillips

A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.

Following the sudden death of their last surviving parent - their Dad, two brothers and two sisters return to the family home after many years to face each other, face facts and face the future. But what do they know of the past?

Adam e Mary são casados há muito tempo e a vida caiu numa rotina. Ele é um arquiteto de sucesso, mas acomodado. Ela, professora aposentada, pensa em fazer filantropia. No fundo, os dois estão cansados um do outro. Os filhos, quando percebem isso, tentam salvar o casamento dos pais.

No épico final, a batalha entre as forças do bem e do mal do mundo dos feiticeiros vai originar uma guerra sem precedentes. Os riscos nunca foram tão elevados e ninguém está seguro. Mas é Harry Potter quem terá de fazer o sacrifício final, pois a luta com Lord Voldemort aproxima-se. Tudo acaba.

This exclusive look into the leaders in alternative modeling allows you to explore the weird and wonderful characters that suggest you don't have to be bafflingly beautiful to be a model.

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

Uma paixão que transcende gerações..... Maurice (Peter O´Toole) e Ia (Leslie Phillips) são velhos amigos, atores ingleses veteranos que nunca tiveram sua grande chance. Agora em seus "anos dourados", continuam a trabalhar - Maurice por exemplo, interpreta um paciente moribundo em uma série de televisão. Mas suas rotinas confortáveis e os cafés-da-manhã no lugar favorito, são interrompidos pela chegada da sobrinha-neta de Ian, Jessie ( Jodie Whittaker), do interior. Ela acaba com a paciência do avô rapidamente, mas Maurice se simpatiza com a garota e a leva para conhecer os atrativos culturais de Londres. Conforme Maurice tenta transmitir a Jessie as vantagens da experiência, ele se surpreende, descobrindo como conhece pouco a si mesmo, agora que sua vida está chegando perto do final.

Durante as filmagens de 'De Olhos Bem Fechados', em Londres, entre 1998 e 1999, um homem fingiu ser o recluso diretor Stanley Kubrick e entrou em festas, restaurantes e nightclubs mais badalados da capital inglesa. Baseado em fatos reais, o projeto foi desenvolvido por dois colaboradores de Kubrick, Anthony Frewin, que assina o roteiro, e Brian Cook, na direção.

Esta polêmica produção revela um lado obscuro do primeiro-ministro britânico Winston Churchill, que foi um importante articulador que colaborou para dar fim à Segunda Guerra Mundial. Mas este filme mostra um outro Churchill, um jovem ambicioso e de caráter duvidoso, um soldado que venceu a guerra jogando sujo e caçoando dos ingleses. Longe de ser biográfico, o que se vê aqui é uma leitura ficcional e debochada de uma figura importante na história do século 20. Conta com um grande elenco, com Christian Slater no papel central e ainda Neve Campbell como a princesa Elizabeth e Miranda Richardson como Eva Braun, a namorada de Hitler.

Dois garotos acham o produto de um roubo a banco, milhões em dinheiro, mas têm que gastar tudo antes que o Reino Unido converta sua moeda para euro. O prazo: uma semana.

Carros voadores, árvores que lutam e um misterioso elfo, com um aviso ainda mais misterioso. Harry Potter está pronto para dar início ao segundo ano de sua maravilhosa jornada no mundo da bruxaria. Em Hogwarts nesse ano, aranhas falam, cartas dão broncas e a habilidade de Harry para falar com cobras voltará contra ele. De clubes de duelo a jogadores de quadribol desonestos, esse será um ano de aventura e perigo para todos. Quando a mensagem sangrenta na parede anuncia que a Câmara Secreta foi aberta, Harry, Rony e Hermione percebem que para salvar Hogwarts será preciso muita mágica e coragem. Confira essa enfeitiçante adaptação do segundo livro da obra da escritora J.K. Rowling e prepare-se para ficar petrificado quando Harry Potter demonstrar que, mais que um bruxo, é um verdadeiro herói.

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.

Harry Potter é um garoto órfão que vive infeliz com seus tios, os Dursley. Em seu aniversário de 11 anos ele recebe uma carta que mudará sua vida: um convite para ingressar em Hogwarts.

Lara Croft é uma aristocrata filha de Lord Henshingly Croft, um arqueólogo cujo desaparecimento está por explicar. Criada em berço de ouro, é uma experiente salteadora que percorre o mundo em busca de artefactos raros e valiosos. Sem o saber, ela tinha em casa "O Olho Que Tudo Vê", um fragmento, guardado pelo seu pai, de um artefacto que, reconstituído, poderia dar ao seu possuidor o poder sobre o Tempo. Mas há um grupo secreto e poderoso que não vai olhar a meios para obter os pedaços e controlar este poder.

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. Instead he finds himself in the middle of an army full of cowards, incompetents and a few outright evil men. They of course reap the fortunes of war, promotions and fame, but never Crouchback. His war is just an endless list of transfers and an hopeless but noble quest for righteousness.

A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.

Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Because of her attractiveness, Jenny's views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts. The film centres on the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the film is set.

Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn) é uma viúva que está em sérios apuros financeiros. Seu marido (Bill Weston) se suicidou recentemente e deixou para ela uma série de dívidas que podem fazer com que ela perca a casa onde sua família vive há mais de 200 anos. Sabendo de suas dificuldades financeiras e também de sua habilidade como jardineira, seu empregado Matthew acaba lhe fazendo uma proposta insólita: que ela cuide em sua estufa de suas mudas de maconha para que eles, juntos, possam revender a plantação a traficantes.

Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.

Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.

Durante uma operação do FBI em uma casa noturna de Moscou, o irmão do gângster russo Terek Murad é morto. Murad quer vingança e contrata o pistoleiro de aluguel conhecido como Chacal para matar o diretor do FBI como retaliação. Com a ajuda da agente russa Valentina Koslova, o FBI encontra o único homem que conhece a fisionomia do perigoso Chacal: o terrorista do IRA Declan Mulqueen. Declan, então, é forçado a ajudar na caça pelo infame assassino sem identidade.

Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reputation and put the real killer behind bars, he'll have to go through a mysterious list of names that's suddenly turned up and may hold the key to the murderer's identity.

Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join her on form a variety act in order to impress her childhood crush Neville, a talent agent holding a gala night.

Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."

An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.

Lady Osborne's gardener becomes the victim of a burglar when he catches him in the Lady's house. Soon more mysterious murders occur and Inspectors Higgins and Lane suspect a connection between the victims and the Lady's long-dead husband.

Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspector Lane find a joker card on all the victims. Their investigation leads them to a diamond smuggling ring.

A adolescente Virginia Otis (Neve Campbell) se mudou para a Inglaterra com sua família, pasando a viver em um antigo castelo. Ela não está feliz e se sente bem entediada. A misteriosa aparição de uma mancha de sangue e sons fantasmagóricos fazem o pai dela, que é um pesquisador que não acredita em nada sobrenatural, se convencer que isto não passa de armações da filha para irem embora. Paralelamente ela se convence da existência de um fantasma, Sir Simon de Canterville (Patrick Stewart), que não pode ter seu descanso eterno em razão de uma antiga maldição. Baseado na obra de Oscar Wilde.

A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.

Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man she loves, she persuades the love-struck henchman De Flores to murder her fiance, but does not anticipate the tragic consequences of her actions.

A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.

Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.

Quando um inesperado acidente elimina toda familia real, é imperativo encontrar um herdeiro para o trono, que surge no perfil improvável de Ralph Jones, um humilde cantor de bares de Las Vegas. Mas nem seu secretário privado consegue reparar Ralph para os problemas que se avizinham ao envolver-se com o inimigo Lord Graves e quando se apaixona pela envergonhada strip teaser.

A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks

A lendária história real do capitão Richard Francis Burton e da tumultuada expedição do tenente John Hanning Speke para encontrar a nascente do rio Nilo.

The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.

Em 1963, no auge da Guerra Fria, a imprensa britânica revela que John Profumo, ministro da Defesa da Inglaterra, tem um caso com uma prostituta de elite que também se relaciona com Ivanov, adido naval soviético em Londres.

Jim Graham (Christian Bale) é um garoto de 11 anos de uma família inglesa que vive no Oriente. Jim tem um padrão de vida alto, mas de repente é separado de seus pais em virtude da China ser invadida pelo Japão. Isto o força a se defender e o obriga a crescer, tornando-se então um sobrevivente em um campo de concentração com rígidas regras.

Karen Blixen é uma rica dinamarquesa que vai morar em uma fazenda de café no Quênia com Bror Blixen-Finecke, um barão com quem se casou por conveniência. Mas o casal vive como se fossem mais amigos do que amantes e acabam se separando e Bror vai embora. Agora Karen está sozinha na fazendo cuidando do trabalho, mas conhece Denys Finch Hatton, um aristocrata inglês que se torna seu grande amor.

British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.

Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not least London stripper Barbara, with whom he decides to take refuge!

Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.

A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.

O maior ataque que o mundo já viu, acontecido no dia 6 de junho, ficou conhecido como o Dia D e desbancou o domínio nazista na Europa. A ofensiva, que envolveu mais de 3 milhões de homens, foi uma das mais ousadas e sangrentas estratégias militares da era moderna e marcou o início do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vencedor dos Oscar de Fotografia em Preto e Branco e Efeitos Especiais, foi indicado ainda à outras três categorias: Filme, Montagem e Direção de Arte em Preto e Branco.

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.

Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.

When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy.

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.

The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.

Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!

Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920's. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.

A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. Then he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.

An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.

A incrível, mas verdadeira, história de como um imitador foi recrutado para imitar o General Montgomery para enganar os alemães sobre suas intenções antes da campanha do Norte da África. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

Os ex-membros de uma trupe de dança estão na justiça por causa de memórias recentemente publicadas. Cada um insiste no seu próprio ponto de vista. Depois de escrever um livro revelador sobre seus dias na trupe de dança "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren é processada por difamar sua colega dançarina Angele. Uma narrativa no estilo Rashômon apresenta a história de três pontos de vista, onde Sybil acusa Angele de ter um caso com Barry, enquanto Angele insiste que na verdade era Sybil quem estava tendo o caso. Finalmente, Barry mostra seu lado da história.

The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

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.

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.

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.

História ficcional dos engenheiros aeroespaciais britânicos que tentam resolver o problema do voo supersônico. O piloto de caça Tony, bem-sucedido durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, se casa com Susan, filha de um magnata do petróleo que também projeta aviões. O filme mostra a tentativa da empresa de quebrar a barreira do som, bem como as tensões entre pai e filha. Muitas filmagens do início dos anos 50 da aviação a jato na Grã-Bretanha, bem como cenas reais do avião Comet, primeiro avião a jato de passageiros do mundo. e Livre.

Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.

This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Menino ladrão das ruas de Bagdá ajuda jovem sultão deposto do trono por feiticeiro a recuperar o poder. Para isso conta com a ajuda de um gênio mágico que lhe concede três desejos.

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.

Um tímido oficial do exército britânico renuncia à seu posto na véspera de seu destacamento ser enviado contra rebeldes egípcios. Chamando-o de covarde, sua namorada e três amigos oficiais lhe dão 4 penas brancas como símbolo de seu ato. Então o oficial britânico procura resgatar sua honra, ajudando secretamente seus antigos camaradas. Quando sua unidade é vencida e capturada pelos rebeldes, nosso herói, disfarçado de árabe, encontra uma oportunidade de tentar libertar cada um deles e assim poder devolver as 'penas' da covardia recebidas de seus antigos camaradas.

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.

Follows the journey of inconsequential loser, Norman Tickle, his best friend, and a bunch of backpackers to work the summer season at an isolated Scottish hotel and their horrific gastronomic encounters with the owners.