Acting
An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps them prisoner after his plans to steal their jewels have been discovered.
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing.
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
A compilation of episodes from the TV series "The Vise" – "Set a Murderer" and "Yellow Robe".
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
Northern comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo’s comic routines come thick and fast.
