Harry Hobson is a prosperous provincial bookmaker. He is a widower and his home and business are looked after by his three daughters. Hobson is a contented man and has decided that although he will allow his two younger daughters to marry, the eldest, Maggie, must stay at home and care for him. But Maggie has other ideas and is determined to force her father into letting her have her own way...
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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)
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
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...
The 'protection racket' is rampant in London. The basic procedure for the crooks is to threaten shop-keepers and café proprietors with the destruction of their premises unless they pay a regular weekly sum of money for 'protection'.
From his early youth Hawkins had felt the need to eliminate the pompous, starting with a hated headmaster. As his fame spread, business prospered until the coming of war brought enforced semi-retirement.
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.
Earnings from a diamond-robbery, Clifton to hire first-rate specialists for the hold-up of all time. They will rob the night postal train that carries millions in old banknotes. Everything goes to plan until the very last moment when a series of unforeseen events conspire against them and the police manage to capture the gang. Clifton however tries to escape the country using a counterfeit identity...
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.
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
When a teenaged student disappears, her teacher is suspected of killing her.
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