Henry Oscar

В доме молодой девушки мисс Джил Эгелис, что стоит у самого моря на высокой скале в сумерках неожиданно появляются непрошеные гости. Молодой друг мисс Джил, Бенжамен Харрис, местный инженер, замечает, что эти гости оставляют за собой повсюду морские водоросли и похищают книги и другие мелкие предметы из ее дома. А вскоре они похитили и саму мисс Джил, но Бенжамен, вместе с приятелем, художником Харольдом, преследуя похитителей через потайной ход в скале, вдруг оказываются… на самом дне моря, где в античных развалинах древнего затонувшего города до сих пор живут бессмертные люди.

Мисс Марпл введена в попечительский совет некоего благотворительного заведения, исправляющего малолетних преступников путём помещения их на учебный корабль в нечто вроде флотского кадетского корпуса. И — а что вы хотели? — не успела мисс Марпл впервые принять участие в заседании, как один из его участников, всё заседание упорно хотевший что-то заявить собравшимся, прямо там и умер. И вновь начались разногласия мисс Марпл с полицией. Проницательная старушка прознала, что незадолго до того её коллега вернулся с инспекции с корабля. И, недолго думая, отправилась выяснять всё на корабль сама. Что привело не только к благополучному финалу, но и к аресту самой мисс Марпл и финальному поединку на шпагах с её участием.

Настоящее приключение, что может быть более занимательным? Если это так, то «Корабли викингов» - фильм как раз для вас! Один из самых маститых английских режиссеров середины прошлого века, Джек Кардифф снял фильм «Викинги» в 1958-м , и это стало хорошим подспорьем для создания новой, восхитительной и временами жуткой киноленты, своего рода мини-эпоса, появившегося стараниями британских и югославских кинематографистов. Скандинавский храбрец Рольф (Ричард Видмарк) вместе со своим братом Ормом (Расс Тэмблин) на драккаре, полном воинов, отправляются на поиски огромного золотого колокола, столь желаемого Мансухом (Сидни Пойтир), мавританским принцем, готовым заплатить за находку любую цену…

Фильм рассказывает о легендарном герое Первой мировой войны — английском разведчике Т. Э. Лоуренсе, действовавшем среди арабских племен и возглавившем их в походе против турок.

В глухом местечке Трансильвании старая баронесса скрывает в замке сына-вампира и заманивает к нему молоденьких девушек. Одна из гостивших особ выпускает упыря на свободу. К счастью, в глухомань с визитом прибывает известный истребитель вампиров доктор Ван Хельсинг.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.

A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.

Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.

An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events

A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

50s quota thriller.

Начало правления Эдуарда Первого. Английский дворянин Уолтер изгнан из страны за то, что отказался служить норманнскому королю Эдуарду. Решив следовать завещанию отца, он отправляется в дальние страны, чтобы потом вернуться, и собрать разрозненную Англию, которая сбросит нормандское иго, но прежде он и его верный спутник, искусный лучник Тристам Гриффин поступают на службу к могущественному воину и персидскому полководцу генералу Баяну. Этому хитрому военачальнику азиатских кровей поручено сопровождать караван с подарками для китайского императора. Также полководец везёт ему в подарок белокурую красавицу Мариам, которая влюбляется в Уолтера, а наш герой также оказывает ей знаки внимания. Пройдя длинный путь через пустыню и горы, они попадают во дворец китайского императора, где оказываются в заточении; чтобы вернуться домой, им предстоит решиться на дерзкий побег через старинные катакомбы.

Prelude to Fame is a 1950 British drama film directed by Fergus McDonell from a story by Aldous Huxley. While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.

Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl.

In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.

The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.

Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.

1898 год. Сын бригадного генерала Хэрри Фэвершэм отказывается служить в армии, предпочтя вместо этого женитьбу на Этни Берроуз и спокойную жизнь в счастье и достатке. Свой отказ он подписывает накануне отправки его полка в Суданскую кампанию. Его друзья — Джон Дюррэнс, Питер Берроуз и Том Уиллогби — посылают ему по белому перу, что символизирует трусость. Его возлюбленной Этни также неприятен его выбор, и она дает ему четвертое белое перо. Хэрри, пересмотрев свои взгляды на жизнь, решает доказать свою храбрость, и один отправляется в Египет. Переодевшись туземцем племени Сангали, он появится на поле брани, чтобы спасти жизни тех, кого он любит, и кто считал его трусом!

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.

This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a man at the centre of a multiple murder investigation – a case that sparks a sensationalist press frenzy when it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.

Во время Первой Мировой Войны Стокгольм представлял собой рассадник международного шпионажа. Мадлен - британский двойной агент, поставляющая ложную информацию от союзников по Антанте немецкому штабу в Париже. Но она еще, и прекрасная молодая женщина, а потому неожиданно влюбляется в учтивого барона, оказавшегося главой немецкой Секретной Службы. Двум влюбленным, находящимся по разные стороны баррикад, предстоит испытать невероятной силы чувства и эмоции, а жизнь и честь их будет подвергаться нешуточным испытаниям с самого начала этой удивительной приключенческой истории, которая держит зрителя в напряжении до самого конца фильма.

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!

When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping down so avaricious businessmen can crown their own man king. The deposed monarch spends his exile on the Riviera, while the woman, filled with guilt because he stepped down for her, lives in Holland. Interestingly enough, Edward VIII the King of England abdicated for the love of American woman Wallis Simpson a few weeks after this British film was released.

A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.

In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.

Боб и Джилл Лоуренс проводят отпуск в Швейцарских Альпах вместе со своей дочерью Бетти. На глазах у супружеской пары погибает их новый знакомый — француз Луи Бернар. Перед смертью он успевает прошептать Бобу несколько слов о готовящемся шпионском заговоре. Для того чтобы Боб молчал, злоумышленники похищают и держат в заложниках его дочь. Супруги должны спасти своего ребенка и выполнить гражданский долг — не допустить покушения на известного дипломата.

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.

Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).

If it wasn't British, this would be in the Forgotten Horrors book. Hugh (Inspector Holt in HUMAN MONSTER) has some valuable jewels stolen. They're hidden in the back of an old clock in an antique shop. When the thieves return for them, the clock has been sold! They trace it to a creepy country estate. When Hugh and the niece of one of the crooks also show up, things get hairy.