Screenplay: Eric Ambler

Direction David Lean

Cast Ann Todd · Claude Rains · Trevor Howard · Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Then Mary Justin meets Steven Stratton again and they have one last fling together in the Alps.

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Peter Lorre

Synopsis A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about...

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Kenneth More · Jill Dixon · David McCallum · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis The crew and passengers of the Titanic fight to survive when the legendary ship strikes an iceberg.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Sinden · John Stratton · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves...

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast John Mills · Joan Greenwood · Edward Chapman · Kay Walsh

Synopsis Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no...

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Peter Ustinov · Maximilian Schell · Robert Morley

Synopsis A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence, suspecting arms smuggling, gets involved, and under pressure the con-man rises to heights he'd...

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · Glynis Johns · Valerie Hobson · Petula Clark

Synopsis A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing- some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Gary Cooper · Charlton Heston · Michael Redgrave · Emlyn Williams

Synopsis Two sailors, one the captain of a beached cargo ship called the "Mary Deare", form an alliance to stop the ship's owner from collecting on an insurance scam which involved burning the ship's cargo and collecting on the loss.

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast George Raft · Brenda Marshall · Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Ankara in neutral Turkey: World War Two. A town of intrigue and of provocateurs. The Germans are planning to leak maps apparently proving that the Russians are about to invade the country. American Joe Barton is in the know and...

Direction Norman Foster · Orson Welles

Cast Joseph Cotten · Dolores del Rio · Orson Welles · Everett Sloane

Synopsis A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to his wife, he flees the hotel the couple is staying...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast David Niven · Stanley Holloway · James Donald · Peter Ustinov

Synopsis A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould them into a good team. When they go into action...

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Joel McCrea · Evelyn Keyes · Herbert Lom · Roland Culver

Synopsis U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Robert Taine and his wife Cecily live in a village in England. While hunting on some land he has recently purchased, he shoots a load of buckshot at a man he thinks is a poacher but,...

Direction Lance Comfort · Mutz Greenbaum · Victor Hanbury Productions

Cast James Mason · Lucie Mannheim · Raymond Lovell · Julien Mitchell

Synopsis An Austrian medical student living and working in France is hauled in by the police while on holiday in the south of the country. Accused of espionage he is sent back to his hotel to find out who might really...

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Gregory Peck · Win Min Than · Bernard Lee · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two comrades-in-arms crash in the Burmese wilds. The three men are forced to hack and crawl their way to safety, surrounded on all sides by the Japanese. Peck's subordinates don't completely trust their leader, and...

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 Daniel Mann

Cast Sam Waterston · Zero Mostel · Yvette Mimieux · Scott Marlowe

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Robert Donat · Kay Walsh · Denholm Elliott · Adrienne Corri

Synopsis The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Direction Eric Ambler · Don Weis · Paul Stewart · Don Taylor

Cast Anthony George · Doug McClure · Sebastian Cabot · Ken Lynch

Synopsis TV Series (1960-1962). Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate Inc., a very high priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt.