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- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsDan DuryeaElsie AlbiinGudrun UreAn American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsJerry DesmondePauline StroudOlive SloaneThree bachelors raise a baby who grows into an eligible young woman.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsPeter ReynoldsRona AndersonPatrick Barr20th Century-Fox gets the blame for distributing this in the USA but they were not the production company in any manner. Peter Reynolds is the screwed-up son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident. His crime spurt is petty until one results in the killing of the night watchman at the college. Roma Anderson, secretary to the professor, is heads-over about Reynolds but he is more interested in a night club entertainer. Reynolds, keeping with the family-affair motif, meets a bad end while being pursued by an undercover agent who is his sister's boyfriend. Title refers to a roulette-wheel call. They did refrain from rolling an 8-ball across his path.
- DirectorCharles SaundersStarsRonald HowardOlga EdwardesJohn BentleyA doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsTom ConwayMila ParélyNaomi ChanceDischarged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsJames KenneyJoan CollinsBetty Ann DaviesThe life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
- DirectorRay EnrightEdoardo AntonStarsGeorge RaftGianna Maria CanaleMassimo SeratoAn American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJoan FontaineLouis JourdanGodfrey TearleThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-widowed Fiametta spurns overtures of love offered by the philandering Boccaccio who, in an effort to win her, spins two of his stories: The first is "Paganino the Pirate", a spicy tale of a young wife, married to an elderly gent, who prefers astrology to martial bliss, permits herself to be captured by a young pirate, to teach her husband a lesson. The second tale is "Wager on Virtue", concerning an elderly merchant,who loses faith in his beautiful young wife, on the strength of circumstantial evidence present him by a daring young rogue, who has previously goaded him into a bet on his wife's virtue, or lack thereof. The characters in this segment include Nerina, The Sultan, the Merchant Captain, a Merchant in French Inn and George and Bert Bernard as messengers. The third story, told by Fiametta, is "The Doctor's Daughter," concerning a delicate matter of matrimony when a wife, Isabella , finds herself spurned by the man, Bertrando, who has wed her at the command of his King. Characters include Maria, The Old Witch, Father Francaisco, and Signora Bucca.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsDirk BogardeMai ZetterlingPhilip FriendSimon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.
- StarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Christopher LeeRon RandellDouglas Fairbanks, Jr. narrated, produced, and frequently starred in this anthology series, which presented everything from drama to mystery to farce.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsBonar ColleanoAndrew RaySidney JamesAn Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
- DirectorGordon ParryStarsPeter IllingGaby BruyèreJames CopelandA weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsWendell CoreyMargaret LockwoodForrest TuckerBased on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her lover, Jen Farrell wins a fight that should have led to a meeting with heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan but crooks, who had sought to fix the fight, fixed him instead and Farrell is so hurt that Laughing Anne realizes he will never fight again. They drift to the Eastern seas where Anne becomes a singer in sordid Javanese bars. There she meets Captain Davidson, the master of a trading schooner, stows away on his ship and begs him to take her to Singapore. In the slow lazy cruise, Davidson falls under the spell of Laughing Anne and begs her to marry him, but she has learned from him an old forgotten sense of loyalty, jumps ship at Singapore and makes her way back to the blowzy, forlorn life with Farrell. Years later, Davidson meets her again when an unusual cargo takes him to a strange lonely, hot-and-steamy jungle settlement; the Woman with the Laugh has sunk in squalor and, although she is still with Farrell, she has a little boy named Davy with her. Davidson's heart and mind leap back to the rapture of that Archipelago cruise and he tells Annie he will take her and Davy away with him. But Farrell has heard of Davidson's rich cargo and plans to seize it.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaul HenreidLois MaxwellKieron MooreA wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsPatrice MunselRobert MorleyJohn McCallumThe highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) named after her. In her film debut, the Metropolitan Opera's Patrice Munsel, plays the title role in a film that primarily strings together eight excerpts from well-known operas as well as one or two lighter numbers and a montage of famous opera personalities featuring the chorus of the Covent Garden Opera and members of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. The story follows the career of Melba from the time she left her father's Australian cattle ranch, and a suitor, to travel to Paris to get her voice training, and picks up another suitor. She debuts in Brussels and is a smash hit followed by international fame. The suitor from Australia shows up in Monte Carlo, marries her and soon is cast in the role of "Mr. Melba" until he can take it no longer and returns to Australia, while Melba decides her voice belongs to the world and sadly goes on alone.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsClark GableGene TierneyBernard MilesAn American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
- DirectorPeter MillsStarsDerek AylwardJohn BoxerJonathan Field
- CreatorDaniel FoggoCimran ShahStarsFred EmeryDavid DimblebyRichard LindleyLong-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsRichard ToddGlynis JohnsJames Robertson JusticeThe wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
- StarsPatrick TroughtonJohn BreslinWensley PitheyRobin Hood and his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest fight the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsJoel McCreaLaurence NaismithDenis LehrerA retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsAnne CrawfordPeggy CumminsRosamund JohnA pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a petty hoodlum who commits a jewel robbery. The second story tells of a young girl who deserts the Army to marry a boy who needs her and commits bigamy in the process, but it all works out. The third story is about a baby who is mistreated by its father and stepmother, but is reunited, through police work, with its real mother.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsClifford EvansSusan StephenJack WatlingTwo episodes of the Stryker of Scotland Yard series: The Case of the Studio Payroll and The Case of Uncle Harry, edited together into feature film format.
- DirectorLionel TomlinsonStarsJulien VedeyMax BaconIsabel George
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonCharles SaundersStarsClifford EvansRobert AdairGwen BaconA combination of two made-for-television short stories, the first entitled THE ACCUSED and the second THE DOOR. The latter starred Ingeborg Wells, Peter Reynolds and Irene Handl, none of whom is mentioned in the cast list here. The film was trade shown as MISADVENTURE and is listed as such in the Kinematograph Year Book 1955 (page 21).
- DirectorJames HillStarsNati BandaRoy SavageGeorge ColeTwo youngsters round up crooks to blow up British fleet off Gibraltar.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsKathleen HarrisonGeorge CoulourisGeoffrey SumnerA group of petless children secretly build a zoo behind an old manor, unaware it hides jewel thieves. The children find the crooks, then join forces with their animals to defeat them.
- DirectorGodfrey GraysonStarsDennis O'KeefeColeen GrayHugh WilliamsOn loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsBarbara PaytonFrederick ValkJohn SlaterA scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
- DirectorLance ComfortLawrence HuntingtonStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Sean BarrettPatricia CuttsA young woman discovers her grandfather owns the true Aladdin's lamp and discovers it's handsome Genie inside as well.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsVeronica HurstRon RandellCharles VictorA London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
- StarsLeonard SachsDudley StevensJenny WrenA re-creation of the Music Hall variety shows that were popular in the late Victorian and the Edwardian periods (late 1800s and early 1900s). Entertainers performed musical, comedy, magic and recitation acts on stage in Edwardian costume, in some cases appearing as famous Edwardian music hall performers such as Vesta Tilley. Even the audience was dressed in authentic 1900s costumes. The show always ended with the entire cast and the audience singing a rousing rendition of "Down at the Old Bull and Bush".
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsOscar HomolkaRobert UrquhartYvonne FurneauxA rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W)
- DirectorWolf RillaStarsDonald HoustonSusan ShawRobert BrownA wrongly accused convict returns home, only to be maligned again.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsPhyllis CalvertJames DonaldRobert BeattyA secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project. The single-minded Heathly, much to his dismay and little to his credit, uncovers him when he chooses his co-pilot.
- DirectorC.M. Pennington-RichardsStarsRobert BeattyMichael MedwinVirginia McKennaAn Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsLouis HaywardNaomi ChanceSydney TaflerA private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
- DirectorJohn DurstStarsDavid CooteNick EdmettSusan Ford
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsRobert MorleyMaurice EvansEileen HerlieThe common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
- DirectorDonald TaylorStarsDermot WalshClifford EvansLana MorrisInsurance investigator Clifford Evans, investigates murderer on Death Row, insured by his company.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissLance ComfortBernard KnowlesStarsFelix AylmerDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Muriel GeorgeCompilation of three "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents" episodes: "A Lodging for the Night", "Priceless Pocket", and "American Duel".
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergStarsJohn JustinEva DahlbeckSigfrit SteinerThis film deals with war orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 children from all parts of Europe are gathered. The subplots involve a romance between two of the teachers, the grim decision of Red Poland to quit the experiment, and the problem of the German children being viewed as symbols of oppression rather than as victims the same as the children from other countries. The last credit line is for the Teachers and Children of Pestalozzi Village.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsLisa DanielyHugh McDermottSidney JamesWar time drama. Lili will not marry her true Love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star. Starring Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott and Sid James.
- DirectorEmeric PressburgerStarsHugh WilliamsElizabeth AllanJack HawkinsTwin sisters are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same summer camp and hatch a plot to reunite their family.
- DirectorFrancis SearleStarsPatric DoonanSandra DorneBryan ForbesTwo brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.
- StarsCharles E. StidwillDavid EndersAdventures of Rag the Hedgehog, Tag the Mouse, and Botail the Rabbit in their countryside home.
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn Halas
- StarsAndré MorellGreta GyntDouglas WilmerIn 1914, a German doctor, missionary and organist establishes a hospital in the malaria, sleeping sickness and leprosy-ridden French colony of Gabon in Africa.
- DirectorPaul DicksonStarsGilbert HardingKay WalshBetty Ann DaviesA compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and later shown in the US on NBC's "Adventure Theatre" in 1956, hosted by Paul Douglas.
- DirectorCharles FrankStarsHarold WarrenderMarian SpencerRuth DunningBased on the play by Jean Cocteau, and looking like a play as all the action takes place indoors, a neurotic mother almost devours a son with smothering, possessive and misdirected love. When she learns that he is in love with a young girl, she moves to break up the romance. Complications arise when it is discovered that the girl, not knowing of the relationship, had also been in love with the boy's father.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsLeslie BradleyDavid HannafordLily LapidusSir William Magnus lives in an old drafty castle with his daughter and his two grandchildren, Peter and Judy. Few visitors call and when there are guests they do not stay long, freezing cold as the place is. One day, in the company of their playmate Bobby, the castle's only servant's nephew, Peter and Judy discover a sick baby - dragon. Far from being terrified, the three kids immediately understand that the little monster will be their savior.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsGilbert HardingJohn FitzgeraldAdrienne ScottGilbert Harding is interviewed by John Fitzgerald and tells how Scotland Yard tracks down lorry thieves who killed a night watchman. (Authentic hospital operation scenes)