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Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends…

Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the…

When a beautiful young artist’s model is strangled in her bed, Scotland Yard find themselves with three suspects — her sinister ex-husband (Elwyn Brook-Jones), a sexually disturbed artist (Ballard Berkeley)…

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes…

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending…

A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew’s bride in a dark mansion.

Sir Walter Scott’s classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy’s…

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance — only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy…

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and…

When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James’s Palace, he’s amazed to find a pretty Irish…

Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend — whom he knows as “Ernest” — is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to…

Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid…

Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble…

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.

A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly…

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love —…

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain….

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of “The Blue Lamp”(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can…

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and…

Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that…

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he…

Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather’s diaries. He falls in love with his forefather’s cousin, Helen, but…

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult…

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary’s fiancé and when her…

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and…

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his…

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park…