Cast: Frederick Piper

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Kay Walsh · Elizabeth Sellars · Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis Robbie (Jon Whiteley), an orphaned 6 year-old boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, and fearing he will receive severe punishment as he has in the...

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Stanley Holloway · Betty Warren · Barbara Murray · Paul Dupuis

Synopsis When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, an area of London, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is, in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British Government attempt...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland

Synopsis Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant had been casually speaking. Rankling under the injustice, Denant flees...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Horace Hodges · Hay Petrie

Synopsis A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.

Direction John Lemont

Cast Herbert Lom · John Gregson · Sean Connery · Alfred Marks

Synopsis A 1961 British film about extortion rackets and gang warfare in the West End of London. It stars Sean Connery, who plays a burglar called Paddy Damion. He is lured into a protection racket by oily mobster Harry Foulcher (Alfred...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Jimmy Hanley · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Flemyng

Synopsis A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies which finally results in the death of a policeman.

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Mervyn Johns · Mary Merrall · Gordon Jackson · Jean Ireland

Synopsis In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist's assistant in order to get hold of poison to do away with her boozy husband.

Direction John Eldridge

Cast James Donald · Kenneth More · Jean Lodge · Frederick Piper

Synopsis Bill Harper and Petronilla Brand are a young couple that, through a series of mishaps and accidents, get unintentionally involved in a brandy-smuggling (from France) racket. Because of an accidental sinking of Tony Rackham's boat, Bill and Patricia take him...

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Mavis Ranson · Roberta Tovey · Angela White · Malcolm Ranson

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Beatrix Thomson · Patric Knowles · Glennis Lorimer · Reginald Purdell

Synopsis When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Dermot Walsh · Susan Shaw · Barry Letts · Roy Plomley

Synopsis Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in an alcohol-lubricated bout of thrill-seeking (so far as that was possible in England in the late 1940s). When their spree gets...

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Anne Crawford · Dennis Price · Tom Walls · Stephen Murray

Synopsis Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Leo McKern · Vivien Merchant · Jennifer Wright · John Le Mesurier

Synopsis A self-made millionaire of humble origins acquires a new secretary just before he is due to marry a woman of aristocratic lineage. He also starts to suffer mysterious problems with his eyesight and slowly becomes delusional.

Direction Alfred Shaughnessy

Cast Patrick Holt · Honor Blackman · Valentine Dyall · Naomi Chance

Synopsis A married editor who is having an affair pretends that he is visiting an army friend, to keep his wife from suspecting him of infidelity. But while he is with the girlfriend, his friend is murdered, and the editor is...

Direction Roy Rich · Alfred Roome

Cast Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne · Susan Shaw · Maurice Denham

Synopsis "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Arthur Young · Walter Fitzgerald · Ralph Michael · Neville Mapp

Synopsis The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way.

Direction Max Varnel

Cast John Ireland · Susan Stephen · Cyril Shaps · Timothy Beaton

Synopsis The serene life of Pam and John Allen is rocked to its core when a mysterious man begins stalking their every move with late night phone calls, sudden appearances and sinister behavior.

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast Maxine Audley · Richard Leech · Alex Scott · Dudley Foster

Synopsis Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne...

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Ralph Richardson · Margaret Leighton · Patricia Dainton · Carlo Giustini

Synopsis Judith Wynter (Leighton) is a novelist who pens torrid escapist romantic fiction for the popular women's market, although in real life she is a respectable, unassuming woman, happily married to husband Roger (Richardson). She uses people she knows and situations...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Googie Withers · Jean Kent · John McCallum · Derek Bond

Synopsis In Edwardian Britain, a young woman has three suitors who seek her hand in marriage. When Joanna Godden's father died, he bequeathed her a farm on the Romney Marsh in Kent. Joanna is determined to run the farm herself. Her...