When the Chief Constable suggests that a sleepy village does not need a police force, the resident officers try to create an artificial crime wave. Then they discover a gang of smugglers. An irreverent send up of the British bobby starring Will Hay.
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An inept gang of bank robbers led by George The Brain is caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen, which George had hidden in a hollow tree during the chase in which they were caught.
When the Chief Constable suggests that a sleepy village does not need a police force, the resident officers try to create an artificial crime wave. Then they discover a gang of smugglers. An irreverent send up of the British bobby starring Will Hay.
An all star cast and magnificent production values combine in this classic love story of the Queen of Queens. Starring Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra.
The scene is Brighton, with holidaymakers awaiting the arrival of Kolley Kibber, who is working on a stunt for his newspaper.
Amanda occasionally baby-sits for friends and neighbors, so when the newly-arrived couple in the village ask her to sit for them, she accepts.
Richard Harris gives a great performance as a man who wants to quit his job as a miner.
Cheerful British comedy set against the London to Brighton car rally.
Two sailors - Puncher, ex-lightweight boxing champion of the Navy and a simple sort of chap and Knocker, the 'bright' boy of the ship - go ashore when HMS Gillingham puts into Naples.
When a German U-boat sinks Captain Ferguson's ship he vows revenge. The intelligence officers wish to follow the U-boat. Captain Ferguson disobeys these orders and breaks navy policy. How will he achieve his mission with his reputation still intact?
Eddie is a man with a secret - his second job is that of public hangman. When he falls into the canal following a fight with a youth over his wife, his body is not found. A thriller with unexpected twists.
To the boisterous, gaslit London of the 1860's came Joe Sanders and his brother Fred to seek their fortunes. They came from Leybourne in Yorkshire, where Fred was a local prizefighter.
Sir Lancelot Spratt gives his medical students a slating to remember over a patient. The patient is Dr Richard Hare, a student who has fallen ill with jaundice and, in love with the enticing Night Nurse!
"The Kitchen" is adapted from Arnold Wesker's celebrated play. The action takes place in the kitchen of a restaurant, where a polyglot staff strive to cope with a superhuman task. Peter, the German cook, is in love with the waitress, Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The kitchen looms around and encloses them all it is a microcosm of the world. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and Peter realizes that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband. In his grief and pain he runs berserk ... and destroys the kitchen.
Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon.
In the far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay, but a group of scientists believe they have discovered a way of moving humanity onto its next level - to create an immortal. Adventurer Jerry Cornelius gets involved because his recently deceased father worked out a formula to help the final programme and it's on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of his mansion. But Jerry's brother won't let anyone get at it...
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...
Leaving to join his wife at a party in the country, Peter misses his train through chatting to an old friend, Marguerite. The two are forced to stop at an inn which only has one room left. But unknown to Peter, he is being pursued by his in-laws!
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...
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