Released Date:
1950-05-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (439 Reviews)
Director:
Roy Ward BakerW.E. Fairchild
Kenneth Woollard (play)
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Released Date:
1951-04-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (3109 Reviews)
Director:
Anthony AsquithGenres:
DramaTerence Rattigan (by)
Terence Rattigan (screenplay)
Andrew Crocker-Harris, a classic teacher in a British school, is a man hounded by a heart ailment, and by his wife's disloyalty, who is pursuing a science teacher. He has lost his feeling for the emotions of others and his understanding of the boys he is there to teach.
Released Date:
1951-10-15
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1988 Reviews)
Director:
Albert LewinAlbert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted to Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him...
Released Date:
1952-12-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
(946 Reviews)
Director:
David LeanTony successful fighter pilot during World War II marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who also designs airplanes. The movie traces the company's attempt to break the sound barrier, as well as tensions between father and daughter. Lots of footage of early 50s jet aviation in Great Britain as well as shots of the Comet airliner, world's first jet passenger plane.
Released Date:
1952-07-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
89 min
IMDB Ratings:
(315 Reviews)
Eric Ambler (screenplay)
T.E.B. Clarke (screenplay)
Arthur Macrae (screenplay)
W. Somerset Maugham (stories)
The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey, puts his prim-and-proper businessman brother, George Ramsey through. The escapades that drive George to absolute distraction eventually wins the hand of the world's third richest girl, Margaret Vyne, for shiftless Tom; "Winter Cruise" finds the crew of a cargo boat becoming unglued by the endless chatter of a spinster passenger named Miss Reid. In a desperate attempt to silence the prattling busybody, the ship's officers browbeat a French steward, Pierre into making love to her. The results provide some astounding surprises for the officers, Pierre, and, for certain, Miss Reid; In "The Gigolo and the Gigolette" segment, beautiful daredevil Stella Cotman, who entertains the jaded guests of a resort hotel by diving nightly from an eighty-foot platform into a flaming tank, is losing her nerve.
Released Date:
1957-12-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
160 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (2423 Reviews)
Director:
Edward DmytrykMillard Kaufman (screenplay)
Ross Lockridge Jr. (novel)
An abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither and enters into a passionate love affair with a wealthy New Orleans belle Susanna Drake but is tricked into marrying her when she falsely tells him that she is pregnant. But even after Susanna tells him the truth his still stays with her out of love. But John soon learns that Susanna is hiding a dark secret which leads her into madness. This madness causes Susanna to flee to the South during the Civil War taking their son with her. John leaves home and enlisting in the Northern Army as his only means to pursue Susanna.
Released Date:
1960-08-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (2474 Reviews)
Director:
Basil DeardenJohn Boland (novel)
Bryan Forbes (screenplay)
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Released Date:
1959-11-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (581 Reviews)
Director:
Basil DeardenJanet Green
Lukas Heller (additional dialogue)
In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. As two detectives start to investigate, and discover her racial origins were much more mixed, public prejudices and those of the officers themselves are exposed.
Released Date:
1960-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (538 Reviews)
Director:
Ken HughesJohn Furnell (play)
Ken Hughes
Montgomery Hyde (book)
At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic relationship with Queensberry's son, twenty years Wilde's junior. When Queensberry slanders Wilde, the arrogant artist decides to take the matter to court, and brings about his own downfall.
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