Eyewitness
A young woman unwittingly becomes a witness to a murder.
A young woman unwittingly becomes a witness to a murder.
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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.
The scene is Brighton, with holidaymakers awaiting the arrival of Kolley Kibber, who is working on a stunt for his newspaper.
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!
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...
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.
"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.
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!
Brian Stimpson, headmaster, runs his school, as he runs his life, by the clock - until one little slip destroyed his schedule and turned one of the most important days of his life into a disaster.
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)
The receipt of a letter at 10 Downing Street, signed by an eminent atomic researcher and threatening to destroy the seat of Government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament unless the Prime Minister acts to bring his research work to an end, is at first dismissed as a hoax. But the drama grows when Scotland Yard discovers that the researcher has disappeared.
Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the
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...
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.
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