‘Lucky Ryland’ is the captain of the ‘Bulinga’ ship. He secures a contract to transport a cargo of pedigree bulls from South America to England which must be done in record time.
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David Balfour is a recently orphaned young man from a tiny Highland village and the true heir to the title of Master of the Shaws. His uncle Ebenezer has designs on the title so hires Captain Hosean to dispose of his nephew.
Walter Craig is summoned to a British estate. The owner is a stranger to him, yet his face is familiar.
When a temperamental opera star finds out her husband is accused of murder she sets off to find the real killer and is determined to prove her husbands innocence. As she comes closer to the truth, she also comes closer to danger.
Step by step, thrill by thrill, we watch Scotland Yard detectives build up damning evidence against a murderer who for years had believed himself completely safe from discovery. When a human skeleton is discovered beneath the rubble of a bomb school, it is presumed to be the victim of enemy bombing. Police scientists, however, making a routine examination, prove that the bones are those of a woman who had been strangled...
Based on a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat (author of The Cruel Sea) and directed by Basil Dearden (The Blue Lamp, The League Of Gentleman)
When the innocent-faced Malou, having been framed with a crime in Paris, arrives at a sordid brothel in England, it seems that she is condemned to a miserable and soul-destroying life...
In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.
William Friese-Greene was the first man to produce and patent a commercially practical motion-picture camera based on the principles still used today. He lived for his work, sacrificing himself and his family and fortune to satisfy an obsession - to make pictures move. This is his story and the story of the two women who loved him.
Wolf Merton, a London stockbroker with a fine war record as Colonel of a Tank Regiment, has since lost touch with all the men who served under his wartime command. One evening he returns to his Belgravia home and finds that there is an 'intruder' in the house.
Johnny Bannion has spent the last three years in prison devising the biggest robbery of his career. Out of prison, he puts his plans into action. Burying the money in a field, Bannion is arrested before he has a chance to reveal its whereabouts to his gang. They spring him from jail all right, but make the fatal mistake of shooting him before he's given them the full story...
A young woman unwittingly becomes a witness to a murder.
Jack Denton's grandfather Harry comes out of prison. He is soon up to his old tricks: embarrassment and chaos follow.
A gang of hardboiled rogues exchange their London gear for the rough brown robes of a religious order. Make no mistake, they are not undergoing a change of heart, just hiding out until the heat cools off a little and they can return to their nefarious activities in the big city!
Captain Dandy Forsdyke, phoney man-about-town and flourishing jewel thief, drives his girlfriend mad. Dandy cannot prevent himself from lifting such tempting objects as stray diamond rings and bulging wallets which are not at that moment being used.
John Clarke, an uninspiring sort of fellow, works in a bank and one day boards a bus on his way home, foolishly 'forgetting' to pay his fare. He is caught by an inspector, but instead of owning up to it, gives the name and address of one of the bank clients, John Stockman. But in doing so he sets in motion a violent chain of events involving blackmail, robbery and ultimate death.
Distraught after her parents' divorce, nine-year-old Jennifer becomes increasingly neurotic and is sent to a center for maladjusted children.
Young Jennie Jones leaves her quiet, dull home in Wales to seek a glamorous life in 1960s London. But knowing what she wants from life itself and how to get it does not turn out quite as she expects. Starring Janet Munro and John Stride.
The powerful story of a young woman who falls madly in love with an impoverished pianist, only to find that he is involved with a rich socialite who in turn ignores and encourages him until, in desperation, he commits suicide.
Gritty thriller which pits two friends - one a policeman and one a criminal - against each other in this examination of the relationship between players on both sides of the law. With compelling performances from Martin Potter and Nicky Henson.
An actor attempts to win back his former mistress by putting stress on her husband - poisoning the family dog, farm animals at their country place, simulating a robbery attempt
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