Cinematography: Reginald H. Wyer

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Flora Robson · James McKechnie

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Rod Steiger · David Knight · Marla Landi · Noel Willman

Synopsis Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient time to take...

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Janet Blair · Margaret Johnston · Anthony Nicholls

Synopsis A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put...

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast James Mason · Ann Todd · Herbert Lom · Hugh McDermott

Synopsis A childhood trauma has left pianist Francesca Cunningham deeply disturbed and suicidal. Many hazy thoughts cloud her mind -- memories of abuse, memories of submission to her seemingly overbearing mentor, Nicholas. But she cannot tell the true from the false,...

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast James Mason · Rosamund John · Pamela Mason · Ann Stephens

Synopsis A prominent 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 one day fell out a window and died. The surgeon,...

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · Raymond Huntley · Wilfrid Lawson

Synopsis The Prisoner is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his religious convictions. Alec Guinness, his head shaved, plays an unnamed...

Direction Terence Fisher · Antony Darnborough

Cast Jean Simmons · Dirk Bogarde · David Tomlinson · Marcel Poncin

Synopsis A young British woman (Jean Simmons) attends the 1889 Paris Exposition with her brother, only to find him mysteriously missing the morning after their arrival. When the hotel staff insists that neither her brother nor his hotel room ever existed,...

Direction Val Guest · Hal E. Chester

Cast Steve Cochran · Lizabeth Scott · Herbert Marshall · Nicole Maurey

Synopsis A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

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 Muriel Box

Cast Donald Sinden · Muriel Pavlow · Belinda Lee · Michael Craig

Synopsis When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who...

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Ann Todd · Eric Portman · Maxwell Reed · Edward Rigby

Synopsis A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his boss's wife - after a...

Direction Michael McCarthy

Cast Peter Finch · Eva Bartok · Tony Britton · Alexander Knox

Synopsis During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Dutch army, knowing that one of their...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Stanley Baker · Anne Heywood · David McCallum · Peter Cushing

Synopsis Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast James Hayter · Barbara Payton · Stephen Murray · John Van Eyssen

Synopsis Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of...

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Dane Clark · Marius Goring · Naunton Wayne

Synopsis A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.

Direction Terence Fisher

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

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Leslie Phillips · Julie Christie · James Robertson Justice · Stanley Baxter

Synopsis Murdoch Troon, an enthusiastic member of the local cycling club, gets involved with Charles Chingford, a local businessman, when the two of them are involved in an accident. Then Murdoch meets Chingford's daughter, Claire, who persuades him to give up...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Edward Judd · Carole Gray · Eddie Byrne

Synopsis A scientist searching for a cure for cancer unleashes deadly bone-eating monsters on a tiny Irish island.

Direction John Gilling

Cast Ronald Lewis · Oliver Reed · Yvonne Romain · Duncan Lamont

Direction John Krish

Cast John Neville · Philip Stone · Gabriella Licudi · Patrick Newell

Synopsis Dr. Davidson (Neville) research with Dr. Monroe (Mitchell) and Prof. Lancaster (Stone) a strange formula. When Dr. Monroe died in strange circumstances, a Government Superior, Maj. Clarke (Newell), decided to suspend Davidson and is interested in his wife (Licudi) thinking...