Daughter of Darkness (1948)
Жанр : триллер
Время выполнения : 1Ч 31М
Директор : Lance Comfort
Писатель : Max Catto
Краткое содержание
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
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.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
После неудачной попытки соблазнить своего работодателя Руби вместе со своим бойфрендом предпринимает попытку вымогательства. Проигнорировав угрозы шантажа, книготорговец Джон Харман оказывается вовлечён в круговорот катастрофических событий, повторяющих сюжет недавно приобретённой им рукописи. Суждено ли трагической развязке рукописи повториться в жизни?
A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
Взросля дочь богача — мисс Блендиш, была похищена с целью выкупа и попала в руки банды под руководством престарелой преступницы Ма Гриссон. Вначале все пошло по плану, но потом события приняли неожиданный оборот…
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Бывший заключенный Том устраивается на работу в компанию «Хьюлетт» по перевозкам сыпучих грузов. Через некоторое время назревает конфликт с Редом, самым главным и дерзким среди всех водителей. С этого момента начинаются не перевозки, — а гонки, не на жизнь а на смерть…
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
