Cast: Finlay Currie

Direction William Wyler

Cast Charlton Heston · Jack Hawkins · Stephen Boyd · Haya Harareet

Plot Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in...

Direction David Lean

Cast John Mills · Valerie Hobson · Martita Hunt · Alec Guinness

Plot Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Plot Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything...

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Tyrone Power · Mai Zetterling · Lloyd Nolan · Stephen Boyd

Plot After their luxury liner is sunk, a group of over twenty survivors take refuge in a life boat made for only nine. Included in the group are an old opera...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders

Plot Robert Taylor and Director Richard Thorpe team up for this epic tale of noble knights and beautiful damsels in this adaptation of the 1819 Sir Walter Scott classic. The story...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Niall MacGinnis · John Laurie · Belle Chrystall · Finlay Currie

Plot A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Carol Lynley · Keir Dullea · Laurence Olivier · Noël Coward

Plot Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Bill Travers · Finlay Currie

Plot To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Cary Grant · Jeanne Crain · Finlay Currie · Hume Cronyn

Plot Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Wendy Hiller · Roger Livesey · Finlay Currie · Pamela Brown

Plot An eloquent tribute to the mystery of the British landscape. Joan has known what she wants since early childhood. Now she's about to marry a millionaire, but a storm strands...

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Ray Milland · Ann Todd · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Leo G. Carroll

Plot Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Tom Courtenay · Wilfred Pickles · Mona Washbourne · Ethel Griffies

Plot A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Eric Portman · Leslie Howard · Laurence Olivier · Raymond Massey

Plot Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Sophia Loren · Stephen Boyd · Christopher Plummer · Alec Guinness

Plot Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son,...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Alec Guinness · Irene Dunne · Andrew Ray · Anthony Steel

Plot A young street urchin (Andrew Ray), half-starved and homeless, finds a locket containing the likeness of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne). Not recognizing her, he is told that she is the...

Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French

Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris

Plot Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jean Seberg · Richard Widmark · John Gielgud · Richard Todd

Plot Graham Greene wrote the screenplay based on George Bernard Shaw's drama, and Jean Seberg made her screen debut as Joan of Arc. With a superb performance by John Gielgud as...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Barbara Rush · Jeff Morrow · Kathleen Ryan

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Silvana Mangano · Van Heflin · Viveca Lindfors · Geoffrey Horne

Plot A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes...

Direction John Paddy Carstairs

Cast Jean Kent · Albert Lieven · Derrick De Marney · Paul Dupuis

Plot Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals it from the others and boards the Orient Express. He ends up...