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Classic drama based on the play by Roland Pertwee. Googie Withers plays Pearl Bond, the frustrated wife of an 1880s Brighton tavern keeper. Looking for a way to escape her marriage, Pearl persuades a chemist's son to act as accomplice in a murder plot.

Carol Reed's award-winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story told primarily from a child's perspective. Philippe (Bobby Henrey) is the young son of a diplomat and he idolises Baines (Ralph Richardson), his father's butler. When Baines' wife is...

John Mills stars in this docu-drama which captures the ill-fated final expedition to the South Pole in 1912 of British explorer Robert Scott .This classic drama highlights the problems which beset the journey and is accompanied by the music of Vaughn...

Classic British crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. After being called to the scene of an armed robbery, veteran PC George Dixon (Jack Warner) is shot and killed by young criminal Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde) while new recruit Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley)...

Classic British drama directed by Carol Reed. Set during the Cold War, James Mason stars as sardonic double agent Ivo Kern who finds himself falling in love with beautiful British schoolteacher Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) after meeting her in Berlin...

Pen Tennyson directs this early Ealing Studios drama set in a Welsh coal mining valley. Paul Robeson stars as David Goliath, a charismatic African-American seaman who washes up in a small mining village in Wales. There, he finds work alongside the miners...

Will Hay co-directs and stars in this classic British comedy. The film follows inept schoolmaster William Potts (Hay) as he is parachuted into Nazi Germany after British intelligence discover that he is the spitting image of an enemy master spy...

Hailing from the Golden-Age of Ealing comedies, KIND HEARTS & CORONETS stars DENNIS PRICE as the debonair yet impoverished Louis Mazzini, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was disinherited by her noble family, for marrying beneath her. When her...

1940s fantasy drama directed by Basil Dearden. After sheltering from a storm in a Welsh inn a group of strangers, each with something to hide, begin to notice that all is not as it seems with their new surroundings. Welcomed by Halfway House innkeeper...

Anthony Asquith directs this British drama based on Terence Rattigan's play. When young Ronnie Winslow (Neil North) is expelled from the Royal Naval College after being accused of stealing a postal order, his father (Cedric Hardwicke) remains convinced...

1950s film noir starring Ben Gazzara. Jocko De Paris (Gazzara) is a bullying cadet staff sergeant at a Southern military academy. When he decides to frame cadet George Avery Jr (Geoffrey Horne), son of Major George Avery Sr (Larry Gates), Jocko's past...

Collection of four classic films directed by John Ford for Columbia Pictures. In 'The Whole Town's Talking' (1935) Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) is mistaken for infamous bank robber Killer Mannion, and the criminal decides to use the...

1950s British comedy starring Alastair Sim. Seemingly mild-mannered watchmaker Hawkins (Sim) is in fact a skilled assassin. His latest target is leading politician Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley), who is due to stay the weekend at the Green Man...

Film noir crime drama directed by and starring Orson Welles. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from a group of thugs, she repays him by getting him a position on her husband Arthur (Everett Sloane)'s...

1950s British comedy. When it's time for the reading of Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith)'s will, his relatives gather in eager anticipation of the wealth that could be theirs. But they are surprised to discover that their inheritance is conditional upon...