Released Date:
1949-06-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (820 Reviews)
Director:
Thorold DickinsonRodney Ackland
Arthur Boys
Alexander Pushkin (short story "The Queen of Spades")
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Released Date:
1956-11-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (295 Reviews)
Director:
J. Lee ThompsonGenres:
DramaJohn Cresswell
Joan Henry (novel)
Joan Henry (screenplay)
A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend's mistress.
Released Date:
1958-02-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (181 Reviews)
Director:
J. Lee ThompsonAmy and Jim Preston have been married for twenty years but, in her husband's eyes, she has become sloppy both about the house and herself. Jim has no problems with falling in love with Georgie Harlow, a fellow-office worker who is pretty and young...and willing. Jim finally asks Amy for a divorce so he can marry Georgie, and Amy pleads for him to stay but he walks out. He soon realizes that he can't go through with the desertion of Amy and their teen-age son, Brian, and returns home.
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:
1959-12-14
Languages:
English, Polish
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1506 Reviews)
Director:
J. Lee ThompsonNoèl Calef (short story "Rodolphe et le Revolver")
John Hawkesworth (screenplay)
Shelley Smith (screenplay)
Gille Jenkins, a 12 year old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement with her single parent mother, witnesses the murder of an immigrant Polish woman living in an nearby apartment by her former boyfriend, Bronislaus Korchinski. The young merchant marine becomes distraught when he discovers that she has become the mistress of a married British sports announcer and shoots her with her own gun. Gillie lies about the circumstances in order to keep the gun which she discovers where Korchinsky hid it. She ultimately bonds with him and misleads the police in their investigation.
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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