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The Scarlet Pimpernel - The Sword of Justice
00:24:47
John
44 Views · 3 years ago

An Englishman murdering French aristocrats is impersonating the Pimpernel. Sir Percy engineers a plan that allows his capture and execution by Chauvelin.

Nightfall (1956) Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft
01:18:57
John
186 Views · 3 years ago

Through a series of bizarre coincidences, a man finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde  (1960)
02:10:00
John
192 Views · 3 years ago

The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry.

Peter Finch won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the film also received four other BAFTA nominations including Best British Film, Best Film from any source and for John Fraser as Best British Actor.

The Way Ahead (1944)
01:54:33
John
58 Views · 1 year ago

The Way Ahead - World W*r II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

The Way Ahead (1944)
Director: Carol Reed
Writers: Eric Ambler(original story), Peter Ustinov(screen play)
Stars: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald
Genre: Drama, War
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English, French, German
Also Known As: The Immortal Battalion
Release Date: 6 June 1944 (UK)
Duration: 114 min
Filming Location: Pirbright Army Camp, Pirbright, Surrey, England, UK

Storyline:
A group of draftees are called up into the infantry during World War II. At first, they appear to be a hopeless bunch, but their Sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould them into a good team. When they go into action in North Africa, they realize what it's all about.

Reviews:
"This is a film about a seemingly run of the mill sort of group. After the Brits were involved in WWII and saw how bad the going would be, the government was forced to draft men who would traditionally have been exempt. Men who were a bit old or involved with careers that might be deemed 'useful' to the effort were suddenly being called to duty, as times were dire. The beginning of the film shows these men being selected for service.

Unfortunately, this is a rather motley group and they tended to complain quite a bit as well (mostly by Stanley Holloway's character). How they could become a productive unit seemed pretty doubtful and I doubt if such an unimpressive group of men would have been used as actors had this propaganda film been made a few years earlier--when things looked really bad for the British. However, now that the war was appearing win-able, I can understand the choices of actors.

There is nothing particularly magical about any of the film--their selection, their training or their combat experience in North Africa. However, all of it was very well handled and excelled because they tried to make it believable--normal, everyday men rising to the occasion. In many ways, it reminded me of a landlocked version of "In Which We Serve"--with fine acting and writing instead of jingoism and super-human exploits. Very well done.

There are a few interesting actors in the film. Peter Ustinov is in his first film and he plays a French-speaking man. While his French isn't 100% fluid, it was decent and a bit of a surprise. Apparently, he was in real life David Niven's assistant in the British Army and somehow ended up in the film.

Are You Being Served S09E02
26:49
John
47 Views · 3 years ago

Mr Humphries is late for work again. He has personal problems, he's fallen out with his mother, left home, and now he's been accused of stealing from the till.

Love Thy Neighbour - Eddie's Mother In Law
00:24:24
John
69 Views · 3 years ago

Joan's mother comes to visit and Eddie puts his foot down and kicks her out. Joan leaves with her.

The Scarlet Pimpernel - The Ambassador’s Lady
00:24:53
John
41 Views · 3 years ago

Lord Richard Hastings's eye for a pretty girl places him and Sir Percy in the spotlight - and right under Chauvelin's nose. Will the gossip prove to be their undoing, or can the Pimpernel save the day?

McHale's Navy - Nippon Nancy Calling
00:24:38
John
144 Views · 3 years ago

Binghamton suspects McHale and the 73 Crew of consorting with the enemy, when a Japanese radio announcer broadcasts personal details about Binghamton that only someone close to him would know.

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.

Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)
01:27:30
John
107 Views · 3 years ago

Stars: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts
Director: Harold D. Schuster

Based on the old radio series of the same name, we see the lives of several people attending a popular radio show, including a young couple who meet and fall in love at the show. Great musical acts including Nat King Cole and Spike Jones, but ZaSu Pitts almost steals the show!

Love Thy Neighbour - Power Cut
00:22:41
John
54 Views · 3 years ago

The Electricity Board cuts off the power to Bill and Barbie's for non-payment. They know they paid it; they just can't prove it. Joan lets them move in and offers to go down to the office with Bill to sort it out. Unfortunately, the man is Black and Eddie can't hold his tongue. Worse, they find out that Bill gave Barbie the cheque to mail, she gave it to Joan, and Joan gave it to Eddie. It's still in his pocket.

Are You Being Served S01E03
26:56
John
82 Views · 3 years ago

Mr Rumbold's training session for the staff conflicts with everyone's personal plans, which leads to dissent in the ranks.

Love Thy Neighbour - Religious Fervour
00:23:37
John
27 Views · 3 years ago

After being disturbed by the local Revivalist Band and having a big argument with the boys about religion, Eddie gets converted and joins the band; Joan hatches a plan to revert him to normal.

The Scarlet Pimpernel - The Flower Woman
00:25:11
John
39 Views · 3 years ago

The lovely Comtesse la Valliere, formerly a spy for Chauvelin, changes sides when she learns of the impending execution of dozens of moderate French revolutionaries. Teaming with the Scarlet Pimpernel and his men, the Comtesse plans to rescue the condemned men - from under Chauvelin's nose. Air Date : 27th-Dec-1955

Fear - 1946
01:07:30
John
136 Views · 3 years ago

A medical student is broke and murders his professor for money. The investigating officer knows that Larry is the culprit but does not arrest him. He tries to allow Larry to confess his crime.

Stars: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, James Cardwell, Darren McGavin & Ernie Adams.

And The Angels Sing (1944)
01:40:01
John
277 Views · 3 years ago

⁣The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel (Raymond Walburn) to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray) is playing. Bobby takes the ten dollars and runs it up to $190 at the dice table. Happy hits on Nancy, but she rebuffs him. He doesn't have the money to pay his band and borrows the gambling winnings from Bobby on the pretext that he will give her a job with his band. Bobby discovers the next day that Happy has hastily departed for New York. The girls follow to a night club where he is working and, after an audition, the manager is willing to give Happy a contract if the girls will sing with his band.

Black Angel (1946)
01:20:33
John
47 Views · 1 year ago

Black Angel is a 1946 American film noir directed by Roy William Neill and starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre.

Director: Roy William Neill
Screenplay: Roy Chanslor
Based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich
Produced by Tom McKnight, Roy William Neill
Starring: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre
Cinematography: Paul Ivano
Edit: Saul A. Goodkind
Music: Frank Skinner
Production company: Universal Pictures
Distribution: Universal Pictures
Release date: 1946
Running time: 81 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

Are You Being Served S08E02
25:28
John
70 Views · 3 years ago

A suspicious Captain Peacock thinks his wife is having an extra marital affair with Mr Rumbold behind his back.

The Scarlet Pimpernel - The Imaginary Invalids
00:25:15
John
28 Views · 3 years ago

Sir Percy discovers that Chauvelin is blackmailing the banker Rothstein by holding his daughter captive.

Garden of Evil (1954)
01:39:39
John
91 Views · 3 years ago

Classic Western Movie: Garden of Evil - A trio of American adventurers stranded in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband, who is trapped in a cave in Apache territory.

Garden of Evil (1954)
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Frank Fenton(screenplay), Fred Freiberger(story), William Tunberg(story)
Stars: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 30 June 1954 (USA)
Filming Location: Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico

Storyline:
Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore for several weeks in a sleepy little Mexican village. While there, they are offered the job of following a lady deep into the Indian-infested mountains of Mexico to rescue the lady's husband trapped by a cave-in at their gold mine. For the job they are promised $2000 each. While each contemplates their own chances for getting the lady and/or the gold mine, if they can survive to enjoy it.

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)  - My Late Lamented Friend And Partner
48:31
John
326 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.




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