Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
'It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues'. Maria is taken to a new foster home in a magical city where she becomes Sunshine, finds a statue that talks to her and meets a Boy. She lives happily in a world of fantasy and imagination until one day ...
Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.
Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later, his girlfriend Cass arrives in London with a stack of stolen credit cards looking for Ben Turtle, a talented pianist whose fingering is famous in the world of credit card crime. Their stormy relationship is hindered by hotel detective Keith Banks and assistant manager Diana Sharman. -- BFI synopsis from http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69480238
Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
Действие фильма происходит в двух странах – в Великобритании и в вымышленном профашистском государстве, а сюжет имеет как бы две параллельные линии. В одной из них разворачиваются шпионские страсти и интриги между двумя государствами. Британский самолет-разведчик был сбит на территории фашистского государства, что послужило поводом для шантажа со стороны его лидеров, а в это же время по Лондону прокатилась серия жестоких убийств женщин. Полиция выходит на маньяка, но, к их изумлению, он обладает нечеловеческой силой, а его тело наполовину состоит из неорганических материалов. Лондонская полиция постепенно ловит его, но тот отрывает себе руку, освобождается от наручников, а позже прыгает в кислоту. Молодой врач решает провести самостоятельно расследование, и оно приводит его в дом к некоему ученому, доктору Браунингу (Винсент Прайс), который и является автором эти странных существ, обладающих нечеловеческой силой и выносливостью...
