Set in 1929 and based upon Arthur Ransome's immortal children's novel, "Swallows and Amazons" is the story of a group of children who man two sailing dinghies, 'Swallow' and 'Amazon' and plan mock 'sea-battles' in the Lake District.
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Richard Harris gives a great performance as a man who wants to quit his job as a miner.
Georgie, Carole, Eve and Mary work together in a factory and the four friends go regularly to the local "palais de danse". The story of the joys and sorrows of their young lives is told through their experiences at the dance hall.
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...
"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.
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.
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