When Norman Shields lands a job at the Tinmouth Times, he creates complete havoc, particularly when reporting on the local beauty contest! Starring Norman Wisdom, playing four different characters, and featuring Angela Brown and Derek Bond.
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The Harrow Correspondence College - Principal, Professor William Davis - differs from its more notable namesake in more than one respect, and in no greater respect than size. It possesses only one pupil, and he hasn't paid his fees. When Professor Davis visits the pupil, a young assistant in the press division of the Ministry of International Commerce, in an effort to extract the unpaid fee from him, he becomes involved in a hilarious series of misadventures with kidnapped professors and Nazi plots, and culminating in a crazy car chase involving a baby carriage and a bath chair.
Romantic comedy starring Stanley Baxter and Julie Christie.
Major Lawrence is on leave in London. Idly wandering into an art gallery, he is struck by the beauty of a young girl in a painting. At his side is another surprised visitor who excitedly declares that the picture is of his daughter.
In this oscar winning performace, Charles Laughton plays Henry VIII.
An idealistic young schoolmaster arrives at a Jamaican boarding school.
Ned is on the verge of committing suicide. When a criminal offers him a false identity Ned accepts and pretends to be the head of a criminal organisation. He realises there is a dark side to the syndicate when a young man kills himself.
Comedy spy film starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi.
‘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.
A man who witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train tries to track down the killer.
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.
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.
Pete Fleming is a private detective called into service by an advertising executive
Tom Manning, a taxi driver, is falsely accused of the murder of an eight-year-old girl on a derelict bomb site. Jill, his loyal young wife, bewildered by legal procedure, fights for and wins the active sympathy of Peter Tanner, Junior Counsel for the Defense. Against heavy odds Peter proves himself a barrister of ability and resource.
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.
Richard Harris gives a great performance as a man who wants to quit his job as a miner.
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!
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.
"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.
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