Cast: Michael Medwin

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Albert Finney · Alec Guinness · Edith Evans · Kenneth More

Synopsis In 1860, the stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge that hates Christmas; loathes people and defends the decrease of the surplus of poor population runs his bank exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit and clients, giving a bitter treatment to his own...

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Paulette Goddard · Michael Wilding · Diana Wynyard · Hugh Williams

Synopsis An upstanding politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a youthful indiscretion.

Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French

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

Synopsis 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 write. With the help of his sympathetic wife, he becomes...

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Anton Walbrook · Edith Evans · Yvonne Mitchell · Ronald Howard

Synopsis An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted...

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Albert Finney · Susan Hampshire · Mona Washbourne · Sheila Hancock

Synopsis Danny is a working-class psychopath who moves in with a wealthy widow to redecorate her house. He plays "games" with her while sleeping with her daughter and maid.

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Marlon Brando · Sophia Loren · Sydney Chaplin · Tippi Hedren

Synopsis Natascha, a White Russian countess, stows away on a luxury liner at Hong Kong, determined to seek a new life in America. Natascha hides in the cabin of Ogden Mears, a millionaire diplomat, thereby causing an endless stream of misunderstandings...

Direction Irvin Kershner

Cast Sean Connery · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Kim Basinger · Max von Sydow

Synopsis A Spectre agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Yoko Tani · Ronald Lewis · John Fraser

Synopsis Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast John Mills · John Gregson · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using...

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Robert Beatty · Moira Lister · Stanley Holloway · Michael Medwin

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Howard Duff · Eva Bartok · Alan Wheatley · Philip Leaver

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Anthony Steel · Odile Versois · Stanley Baker · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis Stanley Baker's character is sent to steal the plans from another company of their racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun...

Direction John Henderson

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Jonathan Bailey · Desmond Barrit · Ian Holm

Synopsis This version of the classic Lewis Carroll tale stars Kate Beckinsale as Alice. Though Beckinsale plays a more mature Alice, she maintains the same childlike innocence that characterized Carroll's precocious child protagonist. Beckinsale's understated performance gives the film a subtlety...

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Brenda De Banzie · Brigitte Bardot · James Robertson Justice

Synopsis With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters...

Direction Julian Amyes

Cast George Baker · Harry Andrews · Stanley Baker · Michael Medwin

Direction Martin Clunes

Cast Martin Clunes · Anna Chancellor · Michael Praed · Griff Rhys Jones

Synopsis Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Stephen Murray · Richard Todd · Patricia Plunkett · Rosalyn Boulter

Synopsis "Cristy" Drew, an aspiring young writer, trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with "Frankie" Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds "Frankie" has been with "Cristy" and kills her. Herb is accused...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Paul Guers · Senta Berger · Lex Barker · Claudine Auger

Direction Wendy Toye

Cast Margaret Leighton · John Justin · Roland Culver · Michael Medwin

Synopsis A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot's sister. As he uncovers more about the test flight, people connected with the case begin to...

Direction Saxon Logan

Cast Heather Page · Bill Douglas · Joanna David · Nickolas Grace

Synopsis After a not entirely stress-free journey, Richard Paradise and wife Angela arrive at the house of Albion, owned by brother and sister act Marianne and Alex Britain. When a violent storm breaches the walls and windows of Albion, Marianne is...