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23 Paces to Baker Street
A blind playwright overhears a kidnapping plot. His fiancee and secretary set out to trap the villains.
Starring Van Johnson, Vera Miles and Cecil Parker.7th Cavalry
A cavalry officer is accused of cowardice. He can~t prove why he wasn~t present at the massacre at Little Big Horn.
Starring Randolph Scott.A Day Of One~s Own 1956
A short film about various housewives around the country, who take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.
A Kiss Before Dying
A college boy is obsessed with wealth and will stop at nothing to gain the inheritance of a young heiress.
Starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter and Virginia Leith.A Touch Of The Sun
Set in London~s swanky hotel, The Royal Connaught. If you need anything ask for Mr. Darling the ~ Mr. Fix-it~.
Starring Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray, Alfie Bass and Dennis Price.A Town Like Alice
Virginia McKenna is trapped in Japanese occupied Malaysia. Will Aussie driver Peter Finch be her saviour ?
Anastasia
An amnesiac refugee who tries to pass off as the daughter of the murdered Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II.
Starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner.Assignment Redhead
A secret agent, a luscious nightclub vocalist and a criminal in a story of money and crime.
Away All Boats
Can a tough Navy captain transform a crew of raw undisciplined sailors into the most feared fighting unit in the Pacific ?
Starring Jeff Chandler and George Nader.Backlash
Dangerous secrets swirl across the Arizona desert when an Apache attack leaves five unmarked graves and one survivor missing with a fortune in gold.
Starring Richard Widmark.Bandido
An adventurer teams up with a rebel leader to steal an arms shipment due for government troops.
Starring Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess and Gilbert Roland.Between Heaven And Hell
The spoiled son of a wealthy Southerner is changed by his experiences in the Pacific during World War II.
Starring Robert Wagner.Bond of Fear
A man and his family on a caravan holiday in France are taken hostage by an escaped convict.
Starring Dermot Walsh and Jane Barrett.Child in the House
A girl is left with her relatives while her mother is in hospital. Her father who is a crook pays her a visit.
Starring Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman and Stanley Baker.Cloak Without Dagger
Set during WW2. A Major misses out on the capture of a spy. Years later the truth is revealed.
Starring Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie and Leslie Dwyer.Dakota Incident
Mismatched travellers includ: a bank robber, a politician and a dancing girl. They fend off Cheyenne warriors after their stagecoach is ambushed in the desert.
Starring Dale Robertson.D-Day the Sixth of June
Set against the background of the D-Day landings. A married American officer embarks on an affair with an English nurse.
Starring Robert Taylor and Dana Wynter.Dry Rot
Three bookies attempt to recover their losses by attempting to rig a horse race.
Starring Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Peggy Mount and Sid James.Earth vs the Flying Saucers
A scientist discovers Earth is threatened by a fleet of flying saucers bent on global conquest.
Starring Hugh Marlowe.Flight From Vienna
A Hungarian official asks for asylum in the west. He is forced to go back home to prove his sincerity.
Starring John Bentley, Theodore Bikel and Donald Gray.Funny Face
Fashion photographer Dick Avery takes his latest discovery on a trip to Paris. She proves to be a far from perfect model.
Starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.Fury at Gunsight Pass
A ruthless gang take over a town in an attempt to find a lost fortune.
Starring David Brian, Nevilla Brand and Richard Long.Great Day In The Morning
A gambler wins a hotel in a card game but finds himself involved with women and the start of the civil war.
Starring Robert Stack, Virginia Mayo and Ruth Roman.Guilty?
A solicitor is convinced that a wartime heroine is innocent of a murder. He uncovers more than the evidence he needs.
Starring Donald Wolfit and Sydney Tafler.High Society
CK Dexter-Haven is a playboy with only a little time to reclaim his former wife before she remarries. Cynical reporter Mike Connor is covering the wedding.
Home and Away
Based on ~The Huggetts~ family rivalry when two sons win the football pools.
Starring Jack Warner, Thora Hird, Harry Fowler and Kathleen Harrison.Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
A California town is infiltrated by sinister alien vegetable pods. They start to clone the residents and replace them with emotionless replicas.
Starring Kevin McCarthy.It~s a Wonderful World
Two struggling composers hit on a novel way of producing music backwards!
Starring Terence Morgan, George Cole, Kathleen Harrison.It~s Great to be Young
About a well liked teacher portraying life in a 1950~s British classroom and the school jazz band.
Starring John Mills.Jubal
A cowboy is given a job by a rancher. It sparks lethal jealousy in a colleague and desire in the boss~s wife.
Starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger and Valerie French.Keep It Clean
The comic misadventures of an advertising agent as he attempts to help his brother in law promote his newly invented miracle cleaner.
Starring Ronald Shiner, James Hayter and Joan Sims.Mark Saber: A Hatful of Trouble
A young girl asks Mark Saber to help catch a spy. She saw her stepmother looking at her father~s secret work.
Starring Donald Gray, Diana Decker and Dulcie Bowman.Moby Dick
An obsessive captain leads his crew on an epic quest to find and kill the legendary white whale that bit off his leg.
Starring Gregory Peck.Mohawk
An artist is torn between his love for two women and is thrown into the middle of a Mohawk Iroquois American.
Starring Scott Brady, Rita Gam and Neville Brand.Not So Dusty
Two dustmen come into possession of a valuable book but the donor~s sister wants it back.
Starring Bill Owen, Leslie Dwyer and Joy Nichols.Passport To Treason
Clifford is an American private eye who is stationed in London. He takes over a case for the sake of a murdered friend.
Starring Rod Cameron and Lois Maxwell.Patterns
Fred Staples finds his ambitions and ethics at odds after being employed by a renowned New York corporation.
Starring Van Heflin, Everett Sloane and Ed Begley.Pillars of the Sky
Set in 1868 Oregon. The army violates a treaty by building a road across the reservation. Several Native American chiefs decide to unite their forces against the trespassers.
Port of Escape
Two men on the run hide out in a Thames boat and take the woman owner hostage.
Starring Bill Kerr, Googie Withers and Joan Hickson.Raw Edge
A woman who married to a ruthless ranchowner is in danger when her husband~s workers plot to kill him and claim her as the prize.
Reach for the Sky
The story of Second World War fighter pilot Douglas Bader who despite losing both legs, became one of the RAF~s finest flyers.
Starring Kenneth More.Red Sundown
An ex-gunslinger becomes a sheriff~s deputy in order to stop a hired killer from terrorising a small town.
Starring Rory Calhoun and Martha Hyer.Rogue~s Yarn
A husband plots to kill his rich wife. Does he have the perfect alibi ?
Starring Derek Bond and Hugh Latimer.Run for the Sun
An author and a journalist find themselves at the mercy of war criminals in the Mexican jungle.
Starring Jane Greer, Richard Widmark and Trevor Howard.Sailor Beware!
A seaman gets cold feet about his wedding when his mother in law to be takes control.
Starring Gordon Jackson, Peggy Mount, Ronald Lewis and Shirley Eaton.Seven Men from Now
A former sheriff who lost his wife in a bank robbery hunts for the seven men responsible for her death.
Starring Randolph Scott and Gail Russell.Seventh Cavalry
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers~s body after Little Big Horn.
Stranger At My Door
Outlaw Clay Anderson hides on a preacher~s remote farm after a bank heist. The devout minister vows to save his soul but danger may lie closer to home.
Starring Macdonald Carey.Suicide Mission
Norwegian sailors transport refugees to Shetland in small fishing boats. They only have low calibre weapons to fend off German airplanes and patrol boats.
Starring Leif Larsen and Palmar Bjlrnly.The Battle of the River Plate
Based on the true story of the pursuit of the seemingly unstoppable German battleship the Graf Spee.
The Black Tent
A young man sets out in search of his missing older brother after the war.
Starring Donald Sinden, Anna-Maria Sandri and Anthony Steel.The Bold and the Brave
The story of three unique American soldiers coming together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
Starring Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney and Don Taylor.The Conqueror
Before his rise to power as the famed Mongolian warlord, Genghis Khan kidnaps the daughter of a ruthless rival. It sets a continental war in motion.
Starring John Wayne.The Creature Walks Among Us
An ambitious scientist sets out to discover the truth about a legendary monster. He gets more than he bargained for.
The Fastest Gun Alive
A gentle storekeeper finds his secret past as a gunslinger comes back to haunt him when three bank robbers arrive in town.
Starring Glenn Ford.The First Travelling Saleslady
A corset store owner goes broke. She becomes a travelling sales lady in Texas 1897.
Starring Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson and Clint Eastwood.The Gamma People
Two journalists become stranded in an isolated country where scientists conduct experiments on the locals.
Starring Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips.The Green Man
An assassin plots to murder a politician, but it becomes more complicated than anticipated.
Starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry Thomas and Dora Bryan.The High Terrace
1956. Mystery. Director: Henry Cass. Stars Dale Robertson, Lois Maxwell and Derek Bond. An actress is assisted by an American playwright after her scissors are found lodged in her producer~s back.
The Hostage
A South American revolutionary is facing death for murder but the President~s daughter in London is taken hostage.
Starring Ron Randell.The Iron Petticoat
A Russian air force captain defects to London and falls for the charms of Major Lockwood. She tries to convince him of the beauty of communism. He tries to get her is stay and accept a large cheque.
Starring Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope.The Killer is Loose
A crazed convict escapes prison to seek revenge on the detective who accidently killed his wife.
Starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey.The Last Hunt
Set in 1883 South Dakota. Two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.
Starring Robert Taylor.The Last Wagon
A condemned killer turns hero when he saves the survivors of a wagon train attacked by Apaches and leads them to safety.
The Listener
A woman plots to murder her husband in order to collect his insurance. Can her Father In Law find a way to sound.
Starring Ida Lupino, Ralph Moody and Walter Coy.The Long Arm
A Scotland Yard detective is on the trail of a safe burglar who has turned killer.
Starring Jack Hawkins.The Man Who Never Was
A British intelligence officer plans an elaborate hoax on the Nazis. First he needs a dead body and good cover.
Starring Clifton Webb.The March Hare
Sir Charles Hare gambles everything on his horse at Ascot. The horse is ~pulled~ from the race.
Starring Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan and Wilfrid Hyde-White.The Mountain
Feuding brothers race against time to find the wreckage of an aircraft in the Alps. One of them intending to loot it, and the other determined to stop him.
Starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner.The Naked Hills
An Indiana farmer develops an insatiable thirst for gold and sets off to find fortune in California.
Starring David Wayne, Keenan Wynn and James Barton.The Proud Ones
Marshal Cass Silver prepares for trouble as he struggles to maintain peace in his small town.
Starring Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo and Jeffrey Hunter.The Searchers
A Civil War veteran returns home to find his family has been massacred and his niece kidnapped.
Starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter.The Ten Commandments
Moses leads his people out of Egypt to the Promised Land and collecting the Ten Commandments along the way.
Starring Charlton Heston.Three Violent People
A Confederate soldier returns home to find his property has been taken over by a corrupt official. He has to team up with his wife and a one armed brother in law to get it back.
Tons of Trouble
Mr Pastry names the apartment boilers he maintains ~Mavis and Ethel~. Trouble begins when he faces the sack.
Starring Richard Hearne and William Hartnell.Tribute to a Bad Man
A ruthless horse breeder is brutal to his female companion. It drives her into the arms of another man.
Starring James Cagney.Up In The World
A window cleaner works at a country estate where the owner~s son is threatened by kidnappers.
Starring Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson and Jerry Desmonde.Up The Creek
An incompetent lieutenant is transferred to a vessel whose crew are running a money making scheme.
Starring David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers and Wilfrid Hyde-White.Walk the Proud Land
The true story of an ex-soldier who tries to mediate between the Apaches and settlers in 19th century America.
Starring Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft.White Christmas
Two army buddies travel to a Vermont ski resort for a well-earned rest, but end up putting on a show.
Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney.Wicked As They Come
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb out of poverty and rise to the top.
Starring Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall and Sid James.Women Without Men
Angie plans to meet her boyfriend on New Years Eve. She winds up in jail. Can she find a way to get to him ?
Starring Beverly Michaels and Joan Rice.Written on the Wind
A commentary on 1950~s life that~s disguised as a lurid, glossy soap opera.
Starring Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone.Yield to the Night
A condemned murderess relives key events while waiting for the hangman~s noose.
Starring Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig and Geoffrey Keen.