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Giving one of Sir Percy's agents false information, Chauvelin hopes to lure the man he thinks is the Pimpernel into the open. He achieves his aim but is astonished when a 'simple minded' farmer's boy (the Pimpernel in disguise) arrives.
British spy John Preston (Michael Caine), recently demoted by his boss for a well-intentioned but unsanctioned mission, stumbles onto a covert plot by KGB agent Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan), who is attempting to build and detonate a nuclear bomb on British soil and blame it on the Americans. With the support of the ailing MI5 director, Preston, who is still at odds with several of his superiors, attempts to uncover and thwart the plot before it's too late.
Directed by John Mackenzie
Story by Frederick Forsyth
Starring
Michael Caine
Pierce Brosnan
Ned Beatty
Ian Richardson
Joanna Cassidy
Highlight of this show is young Evelyn Rudie, a child actress and a complete charmer, who went on to have a long career as co-artistic director of the Santa Monica Playhouse. Don't miss the waltz at 13:40, during which Groucho's daughter Melinda makes a brief appearance to dance with her father.
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.
When Ludicrus loses his seat in the senate, he decides to move the family to Rome, but Lurcio worries about who might be his next master when he finds out that they cannot afford to take him with them.
Hyacinth's social standing at a church function is jeopardised when Daisy tries to encourage Onslow to become more ardent. She pretends to have found herself a 17-year-old toyboy.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
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!
An ex-spy (Trevor Howard) helps a girl (Jean Simmons) framed for murder flee across the Lake District, followed by Scotland Yard.
Hyacinth decides to have a second attempt at finding a weekend home in the country and Elizabeth is called in to help her on her property search. Her final choice is `interesting' to say the least and worries Richard enormously.
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.
When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Starring Henry Winkler as Benedict Slade. A 1979 made-for-TV version of the Dickens' classic tale, "A Christmas Carol," set in Concord, NH.
The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel 'The Wrong Box' by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.
There are burglaries in the area and Nellie sees someone creeping around outside the pub at night. She thinks its the window cleaner Charlie. Or is it?
Reggie Wilson's Hollywood career as a film editor ended after he had an affair with his boss's wife. He then moved to England, became successful, and married the daughter of a producer. They are both working on a new film 'Eclipse'. His new life is threatened when he starts receiving intimate letters from a woman. She reminds him of a relationship they had some time ago but he genuinely has no knowledge of it. Has he a sick mind or is he the victim of an evil scheme?
The Intimate Stranger | Finger of Guilt | British crime film noir 1956
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
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 staff at Grace Bros are working late, but they are not alone in the building. There's a thief about. Well, two actually.