Acting
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
A former secret service agent turned private detective finds himself hired as a Nazi-hunter to avenge a murder committed during the Second World War.
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
A king goes on strike and takes a holiday. A double is found to impersonate him who brings disgrace to the throne.
A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
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“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.” - BFI.
'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)
A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
