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A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at…

The Battersea Bats are a gang of four kids who have their den in an abandoned building near the Thames, and they have a plan of action in mind because…

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ‘All at Sea’

A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force…

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit)…

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty’s prison, the St Trinian’s girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a…

A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

A gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the “Flying Scotsman” in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent…

A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died.

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife’s birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a…

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children’s Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children’s lives. One small child risks losing his…

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse,…

A recently-deposed “Estrovian” monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he’s wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in…

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim “Campbell’s Kingdom”, the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather’s name…

When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail,…

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.

An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn’t long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation…

A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator,…

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.

Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries…

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick…

An Australian “swagman” finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to…

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning…

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals – at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the…

Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the…

A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way with the guitar.

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another…

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design…