Narrator / All
Episodes are: 'Please Look After This Bear'; 'A Bear in Hot Water'; 'Paddington Goes Underground'; 'A Shopping Expedition'; 'Paddington and the Old Master'; 'A Spot of Decorating'; 'A Family Group'; 'Paddington Makes a Bid'; 'Do-It-Yourself'; 'A Disappearing Trick'; 'Something Nasty in the Kitchen'; and 'Trouble at the Launderette'.
Lord Langland
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
Narrator
Paddington enters the Great Alphabet Treasure Hunt and has to find something for every letter of the alphabet. But he soon gets attacked by a W for wasp and gets himself in a mess as usual.
King (voice)
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve the mysterious disappearances of some of Britain's greatest monuments. Several hundred years later, Freddie is now living in modern day Paris -- a six-foot-tall amphibian with the moniker Secret Agent F.R.O.7. Messina, too, is still around causing mischief, joining forces with an arch-villain named El Supremo in a scheme to shrink Big Ben. Freddie, alerted to Messina's nefarious plans, gathers his fellow agents Daffers and Scottie together, planning to hide out in Big Ben and surprise the evil doers when they are set to strike at the much-loved British landmark.
The Abbot (voice)
Truckers, the first of Terry Pratchett's novels to be adapted for TV brings to life the story of the Nomes. 15000 years ago the Nomes crashed to Earth in a scout ship from the starship Swan. Generations of them have come and gone with the passing years and the changing countryside. Suddenly faced with extinction, the ten surviving Nomes, guided by their reluctant leader Masklin, must face many exciting adventures during their search for a new home and hiding place in the big, bad world of the humans.
Godfrey Colston
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Monsieur Du Blois (voice)
As a merchant sets off for market, he asks his three lovely daughters what they would like as a present upon his return. His youngest daughter, who he adoringly calls Beauty, replied. "All I'd like is a rose you've picked specially for me." Remembering his promise to Beauty he plucks a rose, enraging the owner of the rosebush, a fearsome boarlike beast who inhabits the nearby castle. The Beast agrees to spare his life, but on one condition, that he brings him the daughter for which he plucked the rose.
Lord Crewne
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
Lord Claybury
Menino inglês lidera a luta contra ganancioso especulador que quer tomar as terras de pequena cidade do interior.
George
A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes horribly wrong.
George
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
Badger (voice)
Designed with young audiences in mind, this award-winning animated film (created with labor-intensive stop-motion techniques) brings Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book to life. When the villainous Weasel and his crew of thugs kidnap an unsuspecting Toad and send an impostor to take over Toad Hall, Badger, Rat and Mole aren't fooled. But can they figure out a way to save their friend before it's too late?
Jason Locke
George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
Ben Weatherstaff
A pirralha mimada Mary Lennox (Gennie James) ficou órfã na Índia vitoriana e foi enviada para viver na Inglaterra na mansão sombria de seu tio Archibald Craven (Sir Derek Jacobi). Depois de descobrir os muitos segredos que se escondem na casa, ela floresce novamente, assim como todos ao seu redor.
Mr. Pitt
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Uncle Theodor
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
Lord McLaidlaw
A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent of the original.
Himself - Introduction
The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.
The Wiseman (voice)
Frustrada por ter de cuidar do irmão caçula enquanto seus pais estão fora, a adolescente Sarah sonha em se livrar da criança, que não para de chorar. Atendendo seu pedido, o Rei dos Duendes, personagem de um dos livros de Sarah, ganha vida e sequestra o bebê. Arrependida, a menina terá de enfrentar um labirinto e resgatar o irmão antes da meia-noite para evitar que ele seja transformado em um duende.
Simeon Simcox
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.
Dr. Feckenham
A morte do Rei Henry VIII fez com que seu reino se transformasse num caos devido às sucessivas disputas. Seu frágil filho Edward está muito debilitado, em seu leito de morte.
Vocals
The local truant officer informs Mrs. Brown (Paddington's keeper) that since he is of age, Paddington must go to school.
Narrator
Mr. Brown's birthday is drawing near and Paddington is worried because he can't afford to buy him a present. His efforts to raise some money lead him into a series of misadventures, first as a waiter at a society dinner, then as the dancing partner of the hostess, Mrs. Smith-Cholmley, in a televised dance competition at the local charity ball.
The local truant officer informs Mrs. Brown (Paddington's keeper) that since he is of age, Paddington must go to school.
Older Watson (voice)
Em 1870, na Londres vitoriana, pessoas são acometidas de alucinações em virtude de serem atingidas por um dardo, com as visões as levando à morte. É dentro deste contexto que Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) e John Watson (Alan Cox) se conhecem, quando ainda são adolescentes e estudam em uma escola pública inglesa, sendo que nesta mesma época Holmes soluciona seu primeiro caso.
The Old Man
A spoiled pop star crashes his car in an irrigation ditch and comes to in a public indoor pool supervised by a mysterious man who attempts to show him the error of his ways.
Psychoanalyst
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
Badger
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.
Dr. Gilpin
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Self / Dr. Gilpin
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
Jupiter
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Sir George Hodge
África do Sul, início do século XX. Após ser expulso da 1ª classe de um trem, o jovem e idealista advogado indiano inicia um processo de auto-avaliação da condição da Índia, que na época era uma colônia britânica, e seus súditos ao redor do planeta. Já na Índia, através de manifestações enérgicas, mas não-violentas, atraiu para si a atenção do mundo ao se colocar como líder espiritual de hindus e muçulmanos.
Slatterthewaite
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Mr. Brownlow
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Cedric
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.
Lafeu
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
Sir Charles Hackforth
The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.
Durand-Huel
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
Narrator (voice)
Paddington, having just seen Gene Kelly on the cinema screen, takes to the streets in a rain storm with his umbrella. Join him as he starts singin' and dancin' in the rain.
Prospero
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
Michael Horden narrates as the voice of as Rolls Royce Phantom taking in the sights of Cheshire.
Oswald, the Sea Serpent
The Talking Parcel is based on a 1974 book by Gerald Durrell in which a young girl is transported to the fantasy land of Mythologia to save it from cockatrices. She is aided by a talking parrot and encounter many other magical creatures, including a mooncalf.
Capulet
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
Frith (voice)
Um grupo de coelhos se une para formar uma sociedade própria, uma colônia apenas para sua espécie, longe da estrutura da tirania e das intervenções humanas. Para cumprir este objetivo, eles usarão de todos os meios necessários, não importando a violência.
Atropos - Fortune Teller
Suspense psicológico sobre um romancista telecinético que causa desastres simplesmente pensando neles.
Ebenezer Scrooge
"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself…
Parson Adams
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
King
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin
Em 1930, na era da Lei Seca, dois aventureiros assumem os riscos de contrabandear bebidas alcoólicas a bordo do barco Lucky Lady e contam com ajuda da dançarina de cabaré Claire. As coisas se complicam quando os dois homens se apaixonam por ela.
Narrator (voice)
Um trapaceiro irlandês conquista o coração de uma viúva rica e assume a posição aristocrárica do seu falecido marido na Inglaterra do século 18.
Edward Trent
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Headmaster
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Mr. Baker
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Mr. Brown
Um membro da inteligência britânica assume uma identidade criminosa fictícia e se permite ser pego, preso e libertado para se infiltrar em uma organização de espionagem e expor um traidor.
F. Minty
A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi party.
George Maxwell
Um ator fracassado planeja sua vingança contra os críticos de arte responsáveis por severas críticas sobre sua interpretação. Horror, comédia e trama Shakespeariana se misturam para compor uma história eletrizante e intensa. As espetaculares mortes foram inspiradas nas cenas de morte das peças de Shakespeare.
Melius, Alchemist
1934, quando a Morte Preta atinge o norte da Alemanha. Um boticário local, judeu, procura um tratamento para a praga e os sacerdotes o acusam de bruxaria. E um flautista mágico ajuda uma aldeia a se livrar da peste de ratos.
Mock Turtle
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
Priest
Barão extremamente religioso tenta encontrar uma cura para seus filhos incestuosos, sucessivamente, assassinatos misteriosos ocorrem no vilarejo local, todas as vítimas morrem em um bosque.
Justin
Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Marley's Ghost
Ebenezer Scrooge, a skinflint visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve. It's up to them to help the old crab see the error of his ways. And they do, to the delight of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim.
George Mason
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
Ludicrus Sextus
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
Denniston Russell
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
The Butler
Entirely silent, with a musical score, sound effects and incoherent mutterings, the story revolves around a weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric and lewd General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) and the series of saucy mishaps between the staff (Michael Hordern plays the lecherous butler) and his guests.
Thomas Boleyn
O rei Henrique VIII (Richard Burton) apaixona-se pela jovem Anna Bolena (Geneviève Bujold). Casado com Catarina de Aragão, que não lhe deu um herdeiro homem, não mede esforços para ficar com Anna, rompendo com a Igreja Católica e criando a Igreja Anglicana. Mas Anna também não consegue lhe dar seu tão esperado filho homem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Bules Martin
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Adm. Rolland
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um general dos Estados Unidos é capturado e feito prisioneiro no quartel-general da SS, nos Alpes da Baviera. Um grupo de soldados aliados tem a difícil missão de resgatá-lo. A operação torna-se ainda mais complicada quando descobrem que há um traidor entre eles.
Dr. Morley (uncredited)
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
Professor Parkins
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Headmaster
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Grapple
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Sir Matthew
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Baptista
Itália, século XVI. Petruchio, um proprietário rural pobre e irado de Verona, chega a Pádua em busca de fortuna e uma esposa, enquanto Baptista, um comerciante rico, anuncia que não permitirá que Bianca, sua filha mais nova, se case até que a temperamental e indisciplinada Katherina, sua filha mais velha, o faça.
Senex
Um escravo astuto deve unir uma cortesã virgem e seu jovem mestre apaixonado para ganhar sua liberdade. Pseudolus é o escravo mais preguiçoso de Roma e tem apenas um desejo: comprar sua liberdade. Quando seu mestre e sua amante saem para o dia, ele descobre que o jovem mestre se apaixonou por uma virgem da casa de Lico, um traficante de escravos especializado em mulheres bonitas. Pseudolus inventa um acordo em que ele será libertado se puder adquirir a garota para o jovem herói. É claro que não pode ser tão simples assim quando tudo começa a dar errado. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Lord Granville
Depois que o exército egípcio, comandada por oficiais britânicos, é destruído em uma batalha no Sudão em 1880, o governo britânico está em um dilema. Ele não querem enviar uma força militar britânica para uma guerra estrangeira, mas eles têm o compromisso de proteger os egípcios em Cartum. Eles decidem pedir o general Charles "Chinês" Gordon, que era uma espécie de herói popular no Sudão por ter acabado com o comércio de escravos na área, para providenciar a evacuação. Gordon concorda, mas também decide defender a cidade contra as forças do Mahdi - O Esperado - e tenta forçar os britânicos a enviar tropas.
British Ambassador
Um oficial do Exército americano é recrutado por Israel, que ainda não existe, para ajudá-los a formar um exército. Ele é perturbado por este súbito apelo às suas raízes judaicas. Cada um dos vizinhos árabes de Israel prometeu invadir o país mal preparado logo que a criação é concedida. Ele é feito comandante das forças israelenses logo antes do início da guerra.
Reads recollections
A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.
Ashe
Alec Leamas, um espião britânico vai para a Alemanha Oriental supostamente para desertar, mas na verdade, vai para semear a desinformação. À medida que surgem mais reviravoltas na trama, Leamas fica mais convencido de que seu próprio lado o vê apenas como mais uma engrenagem. Sua luta contra a desumanização torna-se o foco final da história.
Geen
A história do épico líder mongol Genghis Khan, considerado o "Príncipe dos Conquistadores", desde sua infância até se rebelar em sua juventude. Ameaças de um rival fará Genghis Khan lutar contra as perseguições e formar um grande exército que conquista todo o Oriente.
Harnsworth
Filme antológico sobre três diferentes proprietários de um Rolls-Royce amarelo. Começando nos anos 20 com Lord Charles, um diplomata britânico, que compra o carro para sua esposa francesa como um presente de aniversário. Nos anos 30 outro proprietário é Paolo Maltese, um mafioso que compra o carro durante uma viagem à Itália e o deixa com a namorada enquanto volta para Chicago. Então nos anos 40 o carro pertence à viúva americana Gerda, que leva um guerrilheiro iugoslavo a Ljubljana na véspera da invasão nazista.
Banquo
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Squire Thomas Banks
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Airport Director
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Cicero
O filme narra a ascensão e o declínio de Cleópatra, rainha do Egito, sua luta para defender o império das ambições políticas e territoriais de Roma e seu relacionamento com Júlio César e Marco Antônio.
These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when his client confesses to killing his wife. In "What Shall We Tell Caroline?" a father with good intentions tries to protect his wife and daughter from the bad things in life.
Don Diego
Filme épico sobre o lendário herói espanhol Rodrigo Diaz, "El Cid" para os seus seguidores, que, sem comprometer o seu rigoroso sentido de honra, consegue tomar a iniciativa e expulsar os mouros da Espanha cristã.
Dr. Davidson
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
A história do esforço da Marinha Britânica, na Segunda Guerra Mundial, para derrotar o mais poderoso navio de guerra da Alemanha nazista.
Narra a fuga do Bismarck durante os primeiros dias da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apresentado tanto do ponto de vista dos muitos navios de guerra de ambos os lados como do quartel general britânico, de onde a busca pelo super navio de guerra foi controlada.
Inspector Farrell
Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye to getting even.
Governor of Gibralter
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)
Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill Eaton, a charming American girl; among the guests are Mary Carlton, Jill's American friend, and Antoinette, a vivacious redhead. However, when the last shore-boat is deemed unseaworthy, the girls are obliged to spend the night on ship. A series of hilarious complications ensue, as the officers attempt to keep the girls away from the beady eyes of Admiral Hewitt – who chooses this very night to board the Scotia.
Judge Manton
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Patterson
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.
Surgeon
No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.
Harrington Brande
British diplomat Harrington Brande takes up his new lowly post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas. That his wife had left him seems to have affected his career. Nicholas sees it all as something of an adventure and soon becomes friends with the new gardener, Jose. As Nicholas begins to spend more time with Jose, his father takes offense and is concerned at the boy's loss of affection for him. It leads him to bar Nicholas from even speaking to the gardener. And soon tensions mount.
Capt. Hugh
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Gen. Coburn
Durante a II Guerra Mundial, a inteligência britânica está tentando fazer com que o alto comando alemão remova sua força armada, pronta para atacar a Itália. Para criar a ilusão de que a Inglaterra vai invadir a Grécia, eles arrumam um cadáver no qual colocam papéis secretos da autoridade espanhola.
Demosthenes
He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god - this was Alexander the Great (Richard Burton), the legendary Greek hero hailed by his countrymen as "The King of Kings". Born in 356 B.C. into a turbulent world of political unrest, educated by Aristotle (Barry Jones) and chosen to lead his people in the grand tradition of his powerful father (Fredric March), this glamorous world conqueror rose above all conflict to unite the continents of Europe and Asia to become one of the most celebrated rulers of all time! Written, produced and directed by Oscar - winner Robert Rossen and featuring the extraordinary Claire Bloom and a remarkable cast of thousands, this stunning portrait of one of history's most fascinating figures is colossal entertainment and an amazing spectacle.
Resident Commissioner
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
General Faversham
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
The Judge
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
King Edward
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").
Lindsay
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
Billy's Uncle
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
The Headman
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Director of Customs
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
The best of British humor is on display in this satirical cold war romp! Donald Sinden plays Lieutenant Green, a radar expert in the Royal Navy. One night, whilst under the influence of alcohol, he welds an old pram to the deck of a foreign destroyer for a joke. The next morning, British Intelligence is desperate to know what the enemy’s new weapon is. To cover his tracks, Green calls it the ‘998’. When he is posted to the destroyer to explain about radar techniques, Green soon realizes that his prank has gone too far.
Commissioner
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
Headmaster Griffith
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Inspector Ayling
The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
Insp. Heron
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
Sir Herbert Frensham
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Scathelock
Versão da Disney do clássico onde o jovem Robin Hood, apaixonado por Marian, entra em um concurso de tiro de arco e flechas com seu pai no palácio do rei. No caminho para casa, seu pai é assassinado por capangas do príncipe John. Robin leva uma vida foragida da lei, juntando seu bando de homens alegres e liderando-os à Floresta de Sherwood, para vingar a morte de seu pai e ajudar as pessoas da região que o príncipe explora através de altos impostos.
Bank Manager
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
Official Receiver
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Jacob Marley
Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) é um velho rico, avarento e grosseiro. Na noite de Natal, ele recebe a visita de três espíritos, representando o passado, o presente e o futuro. Os espíritos mostram a Scrooge sua vida, os sonhos que já teve, seus erros e o que ele pode vir a ser. Com isso Scrooge percebe seu egoísmo e muda seu jeito de ser. Considerada a melhor dentre as adaptações do livro Contos de Natal, de Charles Dickens.
Jacob Marley
Wilkes
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
Webster
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Lab Director Owens
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
Vicar
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Ernest
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
Bashford
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
First Plain Clothes Man
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.
Johnson
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
Dr. Mennell
A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
Seddon
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Co-Counsel at Inquest
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Lt. Cmdr. Lowther
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
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A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Uma garota de escola fugida cai entre as garotas do coro que planejam se casar com a nobreza.
