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Scotland Yard receives news, that bank notes stolen in a Royal Mint van heist have turned up in South America.
Inspector Caesar Smith, (Denis Shaw), is put on the case, and ends up in Brazil, where he learns that the stolen notes were used in the purchase of coffee beans, which leaves him trying to track down the buyer, as they were more than likely the men behind the Royal Mint robbery.
He follows the trail which leads to Europe, before ending up back in Britain at the door of possibly the guilty coffee importer/van robber.
This is a pretty well paced, and enjoyable, little film at just over an hour, in which Denis Shaw appears to be having a ball with his globetrotting, karate chopping, and coffee beans!
Maybe not a classic, but an interesting way to spend 60 odd minutes.
Romany Jones is a British sitcom made by London Weekend Television, broadcast between 1972 and 1975, involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. The show was designed as a vehicle for James Beck and also featured Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts as Wally and Lily Briggs.
Staff that have reached a certain age have been made redundant, including Mrs Slocombe. Refusing to leave Grace Brothers, she becomes a cleaner and her position is filled by a younger woman.
A bumbling butcher's boy takes a shine to a recently orphaned girl while visiting his boss in hospital. He vows to return to see her again - only to be banned by the hospital administrator who sees him as a troublemaker.
Not to be deterred, however, the hapless youth dreams up a number of devious schemes to regain entry.
Kind hearted to a fault, a soft touch, always ready to give a helping hand, being a good neighbour gets him into lots of scrapes, but that's fine with him.
Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan star in this family film.
Friday and Smith are assigned to investigate the strangulation of an unidentified woman in a hotel room. With no leads and no clues, and no idea of who she is, they must start from scratch to find her killer.
COUPLE #1: Ida Taylor, who ran away from a cornfield as a young girl / Charles McLaughlin, a vaguely self-described "entrepeneur"
COUPLE #2: Oney Boren, wife of an oil man / John Granger, whose beard gets in the soup
Ida Taylor is a real hoot, especially during the quiz segment. There's a fantastically funny outtake of her in the "stag reel" for this season (originally released by Shout Factory as a bonus on one of their two great YBYL DVD sets from a decade ago). It starts 5:57 into this video if the link doesn't start where it's supposed to (just make sure you play it to the end-- it's Ida's last line that's the real killer!):
The Night of the Party (1934) | Classic British Mystery Thriller
Mrs Slocombe's 50th birthday is approaching. The staff pull out all the stops to ensure it is an occasion to remember - but is she really 50, and where does her cat fit into all the kerfuffle?
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer who's star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
A WWII pilot (Milland) with vital information for the allies is shot down in Nazi occupied France.
A young nun (Britton) sacrifices to help him escape. For all its underground intrigue, Nazi brutality and Machiavellian Gestapo methods, the film is a different sort of war romance. For one thing, its heroine is a novitiate nun and Ray Milland is an almost too happily married albeit dashing American aviator, forced down in occupied France.
Cast
Ray Milland as John
Barbara Britton as Sister Clothilde / Louise Dupree
Walter Slezak as Vitrey
Lucile Watson as Mother Superior
Konstantin Shayne as Major Krupp
Vladimir Sokoloff as Cabeau
Mona Freeman as Elise
William Edmunds as Henri Maret
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Sir Percy discovers that Chauvelin is blackmailing the banker Rothstein by holding his daughter captive.
McHale and The 73 Crew must practice some trickery to keep Binghamton from building his new Officer's Club on McHale's island. McHale and The 73 Crew must practice some trickery to keep Binghamton from building his new Officer's Club on McHale's island.
McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, the film is about a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score for Hans J. Salter.
The Ghost Train (1941) is a British comedy/mystery movie. Arthur Askey plays irritating entertainer Tommy Gander who is stranded overnight in a Cornish train station with his fellow passengers. Local legend has it that a phantom train passes through the station with the ghosts of its passengers on board. Strange things start to happen as the mystery of the ghost train begins to untangle. This film was based on a stage play by Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army). The Ghost Train was directed by Walter Forde.
Hyacinth wants a new car and, much to Richard's disgust, test drives a Rolls-Royce in her efforts to take Lydia Hawksworth down a peg.
After Eddie has a drunken night at the foreman's leaving party, he refuses to go for the job as it's against his principles. When his boss offers it to him with extra money and the key to the executive toilet, he soon changes his mind.
After filing a divorce, Irene moves to Paris, where she falls in love with Paul. But, with Irene's jealous husband, Bruce, pursuing to get her back to New York, will Paul and Irene ever unite?