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Displaying Films by Year 1949
A Matter of Murder
A bank clerk becomes the target of a killer and a detective after embezzling money for his girlfriend.
Starring Maureen Riscoe, John Barry and Ian Fleming.Africa Screams
Abbott and Costello search for diamonds in Africa. Along the way they meet a visually impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals
All the King~s Men
A local politician tries to regain the kind of power he used to hold. He should be careful how he treats people on the way to the top.
Starring John Ireland.Born Of The Sea
A mysterious baby is found in a boat at sea. There is also a charming portrait of a community in Coverack. Where is he from ?
Starring Dorothea Paul.Celia
A private detective hires an actress to go undercover in the home of a wealthy woman with a new young husband.
Starring Hy Hazell, Bruce Lester and Elsie Wagstaff.Champion
The struggles of a boxer fighting his own demons while trying to achieve success.
Starring Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell and Arthur Kennedy.Criss Cross
A dame convinces her ex-husband, an armoured car guard, to come in on a daring robbery.
Starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo.D.O.A.
An accountant learns that he has been poisoned. He only has a few days to live, so he hunts down his enemy.
Starring Edmond O~Brien, Pamela Britton and Luther Adler.Doctor Morelle
A young woman mysteriously disappears. Her friend turns to Doctor Morelle to help investigate.
Starring Valentine Dyall, Julia Lang and Hugh Griffith.Fighting Man of the Plains
Jim Dancer is one of Quantrill~s Raiders. He stages attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy.
Starring Randolph Scott, Bill Williams and Victor Jory.Hellfire
A reformed gambler turned preacher partnered with a pretty female fugitive outlaw runs into an old pal who~s also a marshal and they both fall for the same bad gal.
Impact
An unfaithful wife and her lover plot to kill her husband. The lover is accidentally killed instead.
Starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines and Charles Coburn.Inspector General
A town~s corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.
Jour de Fete
An inept and easily distracted postman decides to emulate the high speed delivery of mail in the US.
Starring Jacques Tati.Kind Hearts and Coronets
Guinees plays eight family characters. All the noble victims of a vengeance seeking relative.
Starring Alec Guinness and Dennis Price.Knock On Any Door
A crusading lawyer fights to save an under privileged young delinquent from the electric chair.
Starring John Derek, Humphrey Bogart and George Macready.Landfall
An RAF pilot at Coastal Command in Southern England is suspended after sinking a British sub.
Starring Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett and Kathleen Harrison.Learning to Work
A short film focusing on the British trade and industry of London and Newcastle, with a focus on the life of a typical British industrial worker and his family.
Lust for Gold
A young man searches for a lost Arizona gold mine, discovered by his greedy grandfather back in the 1800~s.
Starring Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino.Malice in the Palace
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant. The boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond.
Man on the Run
Having deserted the army Peter Burdon is continually on the run.
Starring Valentine Dyall, Derek Farr and Leslie Perrins.Meet Simon Cherry
A reverend takes refuge at a manor house after getting lost. He unexpectedly becomes involved in a murder case.
Starring Hugh Moxey and Jeannette Tregarthen.Melody Club
An poor investigator goes undercover in a restaurant to catch a gang of crooks.
Starring Terry Thomas.Murder at the Windmill
Two London detectives order the repeat of a stage show after a spectator is shot during a performance.
Starring Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey and Jon Pertwee.No Way Back
A boxer begins a downward slide losing his wife and money. A childhood sweetheart helps him but complications set in.
Now Barabbas Was a Robber
Prison drama about a variety of criminals and their life behind bars in post war Britain.
Starring Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke and Kathleen Harrison.Port of New York
Two narcotics agents go after killer drug dealers who use the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
Starring Scott Brady, Yul Brynner and Richard Rober.Sands of Iwo Jima
A marine sergeant prepares recruits for the American attack on the Japanese fortress island of Iwo Jima.
Starring John Wayne.Sky Liner
An FBI Agent finds himself caught up in Cold War espionage when he boards a plane heading west.
Starring Richard Travis, Pamela Blake and Rochelle Hudson.Streets of Laredo
Three bandits are separated during a gunfight and wind up on opposite sides of the law.
Starring MacDonald Carey and William Holden.Symbol of Service
A wonderful promotional film for the company Poly Tours who made travel luxurious for all.
The Adventures Of Jane
Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer who plans to use Jane to smuggle diamonds into England.
Starring Christabel Leighton-Porter and Stanelli.The Affairs of a Rogue
The Prince Regent tries to marry off his unruly daughter. She falls in love with an impoverished prince.
Starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Joan Hopkins.The Big Wheel
A young man would like to succeed as a race car driver. His father died in a crash years before.
Starring Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell and Michael O~Shea.The Black Book
A powerful man desperately searches for his black book which holds a list of those marked for the guillotine.
Starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart and Richard Hart.The Case of Charles Peace
The film recounts the exploits through the trial of Charles Peace.
Starring Michael Martin-Harvey.The Doolins Of Oklahoma
Former Dalton gang member Bill Doolin decides to hang up his guns and go straight. But as federal Marshals close in can this outlaw ever escape a life on the run ?
Starring Randolph Scott.The Fighting Kentuckian
A member of a Kentucky regiment that helped defeat the British at New Orleans stays behind to help the French settlers fight unscrupulous developers.
Starring John Wayne.The Girl Who Couldn~t Quite
Ruth has not smiled since she was a little girl but with the friendship of a tramp she smiles again.
Starring Bill Owen, Elizabeth Henson and Betty Stockfeld.The Heiress
Adapted from Henry James~s novel Washington Square.
Starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson.The History Of Mr Polly
Alfred reluctantly uses inherited money on two big ventures.
Starring John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Moore Marriott and Finlay Currie.The Huggetts Abroad
Jimmy gets work in South Africa. The family decide to all go with him and travel there by truck.
Starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison and Dinah Sheridan.The Small Back Room
The best bomb disposal expert must battle his inner self during the German raids.
Starring David Farrar, Jack Hawkins and Kathleen Byron.The Third Man
A visiting American investigates the apparent death of a friend and uncovers some unpleasant truths.
The Undercover Man
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren pursues a ruthless mobster who owes millions in back taxes.
Starring Glenn Ford, Nina Foch and James Whitmore.The Walking Hills
A group of cowboys team up to find a wagon load of stolen gold. It had been buried in Death Valley many years ago.
Starring Randolph Scott, Ella Raines and William Bishop.Tokyo Joe
An American returns to Tokyo to pick up threads of his pre WWII life but finds trouble instead.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox and Florence Marly.Trapped
A prison inmate makes a deal with the Secret Service to help quash a counterfeit money scheme.
Starring Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton and John Hoyt.Twelve O~clock High
A tough general takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Starring Gregory Peck.Vengeance Is Mine
A dying man hires an assassin to kill so he can frame his death on an enemy.
Starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden and Sam Kydd.Vote for Huggett
The Huggetts decide to enter the world of politics which causes uproar in the household.
Starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark and Diana Dors.We Were Strangers
A Cuban American returns home to craft a plan to lure the country~s corrupt leaders into a deadly trap.
Starring John Garfield, Jennifer Jones and Gilbert Roland.Whisky Galore!
Mayhem ensues when a whisky laden ship runs aground off the coast of the Outer Hebrides during the Second World War.