Kenneth Griffith
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Director: John Baxter
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Director: Frank Launder
Actors: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Sabrina
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Director: Roy Boulting
Actors: Liam Redmond, André Morell, Anthony Bushell, Kenneth Griffith, Patric Doonan
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.
Director: John Boulting
Actors: Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, John Le Mesurier, William Hartnell
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Actors: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Director: Gordon Parry
Actors: Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Director: Roy Boulting
Actors: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann, Hugh Burden
Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top lair.
Director: Douglas Hickox
Actors: James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Director: Mario Zampi
Actors: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Actors: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Megs Jenkins
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.
Director: Don Chaffey
Actors: Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston, Dorothy Alison, Patricia Jessel
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
Director: Lance Comfort
Actors: Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds, Nanette Newman, Tony Wickert
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Director: Ralph Thomas
Actors: Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns, Richard Hearne, Terry-Thomas
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Director: John Boulting
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Anton Rodgers, Eric Sykes, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
Director: Montgomery Tully
Actors: Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Eric Pohlmann, John Chandos
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Actors: Kent Taylor, Petula Clark, George Rose, Kenneth Griffith, Ursula Howells
Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins, Akim Tamiroff
When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.
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Actors: Kenneth Griffith
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Director: John Boulting
Actors: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker, Jean Anderson
Supernatural fantasy made by John Schlesinger and Alan Cooke as students.
Director: Alan Cooke
Actors: Kenneth Griffith, Nigel Finzi, Susan Maryott, Christopher Finzi, Ursula Wood
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assasination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
Director: Don Sharp
Actors: Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Director: Robert Parrish
Actors: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
Director: Peter Sykes
Actors: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith, John Bennett
Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.
Director: Ron Winston
Actors: Suzy Kendall, Don Gordon, Pierre Olaf, Kenneth Griffith, Stuart Margolin
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
Director: Colin Gregg
Actors: Gary Oldman, John Altman, Martin Barrass, David John, Pete Lee-Wilson
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Actors: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, David Kossoff, Mervyn Johns