The Murder Game
Dec 12, 1965A woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue.
Crime
Peter Bathurst
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Two Letter Alibi
Jan 01, 1962Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
Drama
Three Crooked Men
Oct 01, 1958Two Living, One Dead
Apr 03, 1961Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
Drama
Supersonic saucer
Mar 01, 1956Greta et Sumac sont deux malheureuses jeunes écolières qui devront passer l’été dans leur pensionnat, pour des raisons d’argent, entre autre. Le fils du directeur doit les surveiller, mais il est encore sous le choc d’avoir aperçu une soucoupe volante dans le coin de Venus èa travers le télescope qu’ils ont visité. Effectivement, il y a bien une soucoupe qui atterrit non loin de Greta et Sumac, qui deviennent ami avec le petit extraterrestre de Venus, qu’ils vont surnommer Meeba. C’est lui qui a le pouvoir de se transformer en petite soucoupe et il s'empresse de réaliser les souhaits de ses nouvelles amies. Ça tourne toujours mal, s'ils souhaitent un vrai feu au lieu d’un système de chauffage vétuste, Meeba met le feu aux rideaux. Il peut aussi faire marcher de reculons chiens et hommes. C’est lorsque de vilains garnements veulent voler le coffre fort du pensionnat que l’action devient rocambolesque.
Family
Make Mine Mink
Aug 09, 1960In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Comedy
Dangerous Voyage
Sep 03, 1954A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
Crime
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Jul 13, 1954A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
Drama
Commando sur Saint-Nazaire
Jun 01, 1952Fraser, un commandant de navire retraité est réincorporé dans la Royal Navy pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Malgré des débuts peu encourageants et un équipage sans expérience, Fraser réussit à transformer le navire en une force de combat puissante. À présent, ils doivent accomplir une mission extrêmement périlleuse : détruire un chantier naval français crucial pour les nazis. Un récit fictif inspiré de faits réels et de l'Opération Chariot, l'attaque britannique considérée comme l'une des plus courageuses jamais réalisées.
Adventure
The Siege of Pinchgut
Aug 01, 1959
John and Julie
Jul 26, 1955The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Family
Mother Riley contre le Robot
Jul 11, 1952Mémé Riley reçoit un robot qui est destiné à son voisin, boss d'un gang de criminels, surnommé "Le Vampire". Contrôlant le robot à distance, il le dirige vers sa maison, mais il transporte du coup la vielle dame qui va lui donner du fil à retordre !
Comedy
Change Partners
Jul 01, 1965An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.
Crime
Pacific Destiny
Jan 01, 1956Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
Drama
Babes in Bagdad
Dec 07, 1952The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Comedy
Defenders of Tobruk
Dec 31, 1941Australian newsreel, telling of the besieged Australian forces in Tobruk. Coverage shows dawn patrols, wrecks in Tobruk Harbour, tank patrols, anti-aircraft action against German planes, gun barrages, etc. also seen is the grave of first Australian VC (Victoria Cross) Corporal Edmondson and his mother at home holding the award.
War
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Nov 05, 1966Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
Science Fiction
This film extols the over-producing wheat, meat, dairy, timber, steel, and Merino wool industries of Australia as assets to the Allied war effort. Describes the production of weapons and military supplies in Australian plants. "Dedicated to maintaining a life-line to Britain, Australia aids in the production of supplies and munitions for export; 'Aussie' troops are shown training and embarking for the front lines."
Final Appointment
Oct 01, 1954A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Crime
The Diplomatic Corpse
Feb 01, 1958London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
Adventure
The Betrayal
Jan 01, 1957Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
War
Separate Tables
Mar 15, 1970A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
Romance
The Bismarck Convoy Smashed!
Mar 19, 1943An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Nov 28, 1965Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
Romance
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Apr 03, 1971A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
Drama
Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
Feb 20, 1954Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat pockets. When the gang learns that he is planning to turn the loot over to Scotland Yard, they go gunning for him and wound him while he is on stage performing 'Falstaff.' And, although wounded, he continues with his performance, trouper that he is that believes the show must go on, while the police are apprehending the gunmen.
Comedy
Ten Little Indians
Jan 18, 1959Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
Mystery
The Quatermass Experiment
Aug 22, 1953The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the spaceship that carried the first successful crew returns to Earth, two of the three astronauts are missing, and the third is behaving strangely. It becomes apparent that an alien presence entered the ship during its flight, and Quatermass and his associates must prevent the alien from destroying the world.
Drama
Moonbase 3
Oct 14, 1973
The Scales of Justice
Mar 01, 1967Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
Crime
The Scales of Justice
Mar 01, 1967Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
Crime
Doctor Who
Dec 06, 1989Les aventures du Docteur, un extraterrestre, un Seigneur du Temps originaire de la planète Gallifrey, qui voyage à bord d'un TARDIS (Temps À Relativité Dimensionnelle Inter-Spatiale), une machine pouvant voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps. Le TARDIS a l'apparence d'une cabine de police (construction typiquement britannique ressemblant à une cabine téléphonique), le système de camouflage étant resté bloqué. Comme tous les Seigneur du Temps, le Docteur possède treize vies, ce qui explique sa capacité à changer de corps lorsqu'il est proche de la mort.
Drama
The Human Jungle
Dec 21, 1964The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
