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The Boys From Brazil  (1978)
02:04:59
John
42 Views · 2 years ago

⁣Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones Hitler 95 times, and hopes to raise the resulting boys in Brazil, giving them childhoods identical to Hitler's.

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
01:46:04
John
158 Views · 2 years ago

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is a British comedy-drama film from 2002, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi. It is based on a 1993 novel with the same name by Vernon Coleman.

It is the story about a woman, Thelma Caldicot, who is coerced by her manipulative son Derek and daughter-in-law to move into a run-down nursing home, owned by Derek's employer, after the death of her bullying husband. Derek also gets her to sign over her house to him. However, she doesn't like it at the nursing home and shows her frustration. After having been medicated by the staff to stay calm, she finally incites her fellow inmates to revolt.

The Ruling Class (1972)
02:34:14
John
218 Views · 2 years ago

The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play The Ruling Class which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits an Earldom (a high-ranking aristocratic title).

The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe. It was produced by Jules Buck and directed by Peter Medak.In a review nearly 30 years after The Ruling Class was first released, critic Ian Christie said the film is "unashamedly theatrical, and it emerges from a particularly interesting period in English culture when theatre and cinema together were mining a rich vein of flamboyant self-analysis.


Many stage works of this period cry out for filmic extension—in fact, Medak had just filmed a very different play that mingled fantasy and reality by a writer often bracketed with Barnes, Peter Nichols’ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. But what makes The Ruling Class exceptional (and difficult for some) are its outrageous mixing of genres and its sheer ambition. Not only are there allusions to Shakespeare and Marlowe, but also to Wilde and Whitehall farce; to the gentility of Ealing Studios, with a plot that distantly evokes that other great black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, and to Hammer's gore-fests.

Great Guy (1936)
01:06:11
John
92 Views · 2 years ago

Great Guy (1936) Crime noir full movies, James Cagney stars as an honest inspector for the New York Department of Weights and Measures taking on corrupt businesses and crooked politicians. Not his normal "gangster" movie Jimmy Cagney plays a "great guy" in this classic crime film.

Undertow (1949)
01:10:32
John
33 Views · 2 years ago

Undertow 1949 full movie. Scott Brady stars in this film noir crimedrama as an ex gangster from Chicago who has gone straight but ends up framed for the hit on a powerful mob boss. this crime film has a great chase scene involving a LONG corridor which should not be missed. the film hits all the standard noir plot points and is a quality picture.

Three Came Home (1950)
01:45:01
John
67 Views · 2 years ago

Watch Three Came Home (1950) Full Movie on The Film Detective. Three Came Home is the dramatic screen adaption of Agnes Newton Keith's war-time prison memoir. Separated from her husband, Keith (Claudette Colbert) and her young son must survive in captivity until the end of the war. The realistic and harrowing film was directed by Oscar nominee Jean Negulesco, and features former Japanese silent screen star Sessue Hayakawa as the stern camp commandant Colonel Suga. "It will shock you, disturb you, tear your heart out," wrote the NY Times' Bosley Crowther. "But it will fill you fully with a great respect for a heroic soul."

Director: Jean Negulesco
Writers: Nunnally Johnson, Agnes Newton Keith
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond

Patterns (1956)
01:23:38
John
33 Views · 2 years ago

Writer: Rod Serling
Stars: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
Director: Fielder Cook

In Rod Serling's tale of corporate greed, when a young man is recruited onto the board of a high-powered corporation, he finds his ethics at odds with his ambition. Watch for an unbilled Lauren Bacall in a lobby scene... or is it a look-a-like?

Suddenly (1954)
01:16:44
John
48 Views · 2 years ago

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.Director: Lewis AllenWriter: Richard Sale Stars: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James GleasonGenres

Blake of Scotland Yard (1937)
01:11:00
John
56 Views · 2 years ago

Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope, and her friend Jerry, in developing an apparatus they have invented, but he is called back onto the case after an experimental death ray is stolen.Director: Robert F. Hill Writers: Robert F. Hill (as Rock Hawley), Basil Dickey Stars: Ralph Byrd, Herbert Rawlinson, Joan Barclay

Nightmare (1964) - Hammer Horror
01:22:27
John
100 Views · 2 years ago

Janet is a young student at a private school. Her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in a psychiatric hospital, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet is sent home where the nightmares continue.Director: Freddie Francis (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Tales From the Crypt)Writer: Jimmy Sangster (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula)David KnightMoira RedmondBrenda BruceJennie Linden

On the Buses  - The Anniversary (1971)
00:24:02
John
379 Views · 2 years ago

⁣Internationally-acclaimed comedy starring Reg Varney as bus driver Stan Butler. Life at home has its problems for Stan, but so does work at the bus depot.

⁣As a tenth anniversary present Aunt Maud sends Olive and Arthur a dog, which Olive names Scruffy,but he eats Arthur's food and gives him a sneezing allergy,so Olive takes him back to Aunt Maud by bus. The dog goes for Blakey,tearing his trousers, and he fines Olive a fiver,but Jack anticipates that if they have a whip-round at the depot everyone will want to support the dog that bit the inspector.

Series 4, Episode 817th January 1971Originally filmed in black and white due to the ITV colour strike

Doctor in Distress (1963)
01:38:42
John
69 Views · 2 years ago

⁣Dr. Simon Sparrow's (Sir Dirk Bogarde) love life improves dramatically when lovely Delia Mallory (Samantha Eggar) is brought into casualty with a sprained ankle. As a model she's relieved at the diagnosis, and she's as attracted to Sparrow as he is to her.


Meanwhile, Sparrow finds himself treating Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), who has started sleep-walking. He has also suddenly lost his gruff manner, and is being nice to everyone. Sparrow quickly diagnoses Spratt's condition: he's fallen in love. The object of his affection is Physiotherapist Iris Merchant (Barbara Murray). Sparrow urges him on, but she has another suitor: Major Tommy Ffrench (Donald Houston). Spratt tries to hire a private detective to follow her, but when that doesn't work out, he follows her himself.

Green for Danger (1946)
01:26:24
John
80 Views · 2 years ago

Murder mystery thriller starring Alastair Sim and featuring Trevor Howard. After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.Green for Danger (1946)Studio: Individual PicturesDirector: Sidney GilliatWriter: Sidney Gilliat, Claud GurneyCast: Trevor Howard, Sally Gray

Space 1999  - Breakaway
51:05
John
149 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977.


⁣"Breakaway" is the first episode of the first series of Space: 1999. ⁣Commander John Koenig, the new commander of Moonbase Alpha, leads the investigation of a mysterious disease at the station and uncovers evidence of a far greater looming disaster.

UFO -Timelash (1971)
49:41
John
236 Views · 3 years ago

⁣UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about the ongoing covert efforts of a government defence organisation to prevent an alien invasion of Earth. It was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.


⁣In the pre-title sequence, Commander Straker appears to go berserk, smashing equipment in SHADO Headquarters. After a brief chase he is restrained and found to have a hypodermic needle and an ampoule of an unidentified drug on his person. Col. Lake is found unconscious on the roof, while on the studio backlot a man's dead body is found in a mini-car. Dr. Jackson subjects Straker to hypnosis, during which he relates the rest of the episode in flashback to Jackson and Paul Foster.
Straker and Lake are attacked by a UFO whilst en route to Headquarters. As they pass through the outer checkpoint, night mysteriously turns into day; they find everyone and everything, both on the studio lots and inside SHADO HQ, frozen in time. The effect begins to overtake them as well. In order to counter it, they inject themselves with potentially life-threatening doses of an experimental stimulant.
Inside SHADO HQ they encounter Turner, a SHADO operative who is working for the aliens. He has placed a device in the HQ that freezes time on Earth and allows a UFO to approach the planet undetected. Straker and Lake attempt to kill Turner but he is able to manipulate time to avoid their attacks.
The UFO is waiting for time to unfreeze in order to attack SHADO HQ. Straker arms himself with a shoulder-fired missile to destroy it. However, Turner ambushes the pair, knocking Lake unconscious and stealing a key required to operate the missile. Straker hunts down Turner, chasing him in mini-cars through the studio lot. Turner tells Straker he cannot shoot him, for he is never where Straker sees him to be. To counter this, Straker - reasoning that Turner must still be nearby - shoots in a wide arc, hoping that at least one bullet will find its mark. He thereby kills Turner, gets the missile key, and destroys the incoming UFO; returning to HQ he begins smashing pieces of equipment, hoping to destroy Turner's device. By now the drug has made him paranoid, and he continues his destructive spree even after he succeeds and time unfreezes.
The story returns to the present. Jackson and Foster allow Straker to rest, while musing on the nature of time.

Invisible Man - Blind Justice (1958)
26:04
John
62 Views · 3 years ago

When an airline pilot is framed for drug smuggling, a killer comes to his home to silence him... and the pilot's blind wife is the only witness.

The Sweeney -  Ringer
50:35
John
172 Views · 3 years ago

⁣After Regan's car is stolen with invaluable surveillance photos from a stakeout, the thief gives a heads-up to Sweeney's target.
Director: Terry Green
Writers: Trevor Preston, Ian Kennedy Martin
Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan

Stingray (1964) - S01E01
00:25:40
John
606 Views · 3 years ago

Stingray is a British children's science-fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment. Filmed in 1963 using a combination of electronic marionette puppetry and scale model special effects, it was APF's sixth puppet series and the third to be produced under the banner of "Supermarionation". It debuted on British television in October 1964.

Jason King (Department S) "Nadine"
49:42
John
139 Views · 3 years ago

Jason is suffering writer's block so his publisher sends him to Greece to inspire him. However, some Greek criminals use a beautiful woman to seduce Jason using his fame to smuggle drugs into France - but who is seducing who?

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)  - My Late Lamented Friend And Partner
48:31
John
282 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Private eyes Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are gathering information to allow Fay Sorrensen to divorce her cheating husband but he murders her and makes it look like a heart attack. Marty is suspicious but is killed by a hit-and-run driver before he can prove that Sorrensen is a murderer. His white-suited ghost gets Jeff to meet him at his grave in the cemetery and they expose the murderer between them. However, Marty has been out of his grave beyond the dawn and must wander the Earth as a ghost for the next century, though only Jeff can see him.

Man in a Suitcase - Property Of a Gentlemen (1968)
00:49:17
John
131 Views · 3 years ago

⁣McGill goes from the Cezanne to the frying pan when he's hired by an estranged daughter to investigate why her dying father refuses to see her. Nothing is as it appears beyond the wrought-iron gates of her family's mansion.


Director: Peter Duffell
Writers: Wilfred Greatorex, Richard Harris, Dennis Spooner
Stars
Richard Bradford
Terence Alexander
Justine Lord

Law of the Timber - 1941
01:03:48
John
63 Views · 3 years ago

A girl (Marjorie Reynolds) takes over her dead father's logging company and fills a contract.

Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Monte Blue, J. Farrell MacDonald, Sven Hugo Borg, Hal Brazeale & Earl Eby.
Director: Bernard B. Ray.

The Adventures of Tartu - 1943
01:30:15
John
51 Views · 3 years ago

Stevenson, a British soldier, is summoned to Germany where he stays as Jan Tartu. He joins the Romanian Iron Guard to destroy the German poisonous gas factory.

Stars: Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla & Glynis Johns.

Danger! Women at Work - 1943
00:57:33
John
76 Views · 3 years ago

3 women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business.

Stars: Patsy Kelly, Mary Brian, Isabel Jewell, Wanda McKay, Betty Compson, Jack Randall, Warren Hymer & Vince Barnett.
Uncredited: Charles King.
Director: Sam Newfield.

Green Grow the Rushes - 1951
01:18:16
John
24 Views · 3 years ago

After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

Stars: Richard Burton, Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen & Archie Duncan.
Director: Derek N. Twist.




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