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British Films 1950's
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A Killer Walks - 1952
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner, Susan Shaw
Action Of The Tiger - 1957
An American smuggler is approached by a French woman who wants him to rescue her Brother who is a prisoner in Albania
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery
The Adventurers - 1951
South African soldier Pieter Brandt, has hidden a cache of diamonds he found on a body. He returns to search for them three years later with other three men but who can be trusted?
Quality: 7.5/10, UK
Stars: Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price, Siobhan McKenna, Bernard Lee
Dir: David MacDonald
Alias John Preston - 1956
A wealthy man arrives in a small town and falls in love. He has some inner demons that need exorcising so he seeks psychiatric help
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee, Betta St John
The Angry Hills - 1959
An American journalist in Greece is helped by the Resistance as Nazis track him across the country
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Peter Illing
The Baby And The Battleship - 1956
After a mix-up Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails, he enlists the help of his best friend Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Andre Morell, Michael Hordern
Dir: Jay Lewis
Behind The Headlines - 1956
The Tabloids compete with police to solve a murder. Decent b-movie fun
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Paul Carpenter, Adrienne Corri, Alfie Bass, Hazel Court, Harry Fowler
The Betrayal - 1957
An Allied pilot, tortured and blinded by the Germans, vows revenge on the traitor who dobbed him in
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Philip Friend, Diana Decker, Philip Saville
Blonde Bait - 1956 (aka Women Without Men)
US agent Kent Foster hopes to trap criminal Nick Randall by way of his glamourous girlfriend singer/stripper Angela Booth, who has promised to marry Randall, but ends up in prison after a using a broken mirror in a fight
Quality: 6.5-7/10
Stars: Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice, Thora Hird, Paul Carpenter, Avril Angers
Black Orchid - 1953
Quality: 9/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood, Patrick Barr
The Blue Peter - 1955
A top-notch seafaring drama filmed in Aberdovey, Wales
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Kieron Moore, Sarah Lawson, Greta Gynt, Harry Fowler, Anthony Newley
Break In The Circle - 1955
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West
Quality: 6/10 rough print
Stars: Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Guy Middleton, Eric Pohlmann
Breakout - 1959
A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in to catch the gang
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, William Lucas
Calling Bulldog Drummond - 1951
A ruthless gang terrorises London so Scotland Yard call in Bulldog Drummond to sort it out
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, David Tomlinson, Peggy Evans
The Case Of Mrs Loring - 1958
Marriage breakdown melodrama, aka A Question Of Adultery
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney, Donald Houston, Anton Diffring
Children Galore - 1954
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: June Thorburn, Eddie Byrne, Betty Ann Davis, Marjorie Rhodes
Cloudburst - 1951
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley
Conflict Of Wings - 1954
Villagers are spurred into action in a Norfolk village when RAF Ground Attack want to take over there sacred land for firing practise
Quality: 8/10
Stars: John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow, Kieron Moore, Harry Fowler
Count Five and Die - 1957
Forces combine to convince the Germans that the invasion will take place in The Netherlands and not France
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, AnneMarie Duringer, Nigel Patrick, David Kossoff
Crest Of The Wave - 1954
A Navy officer is commissioned to supervise British torpedo experiments following the sudden death of an eminent Scientist
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee, Sidney James
The Dark Light - 1951
The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Albert Lieven, David Greene, Katharine Blake, Norman Macowan
Death Of An Angel - 1952
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Patrick Barr, Jane Baxter, Julie Somers, Jean Lodge, Raymond Young
Delayed Action - 1954
Quality: 9/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: June Thorburn, Robert Ayers, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton, Michael Balfour
Desperate Moment - 1953
After being made to confess to a murder he didn't commit, Simon van Halder escapes prison and sets out to prove his innocence
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven, Simone Silva
Devil On Horseback - 1954
A young jockey is determined to win whatever the cost, but finds that there are more important things than success
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jeremy Spenser, Sam Kydd
The Devil's Pass - 1957
Adventure about a sailor and a young stowaway, trying to save his old fishing boat from being suppered for the insurance money, by it's new owner
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: John Slater, Christopher Warbey, Richard George, Joan Newell
Diplomatic Passport - 1954
A diplomat and his wife arrive in London and are drawn into a series of confusing and frightening events
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Marsha Hunt, Paul Carpenter, Honor Blackman
The Doctor's Dilemma - 1958
A devoted wife tries to get help for her artist husband, who is dying of tuberculosis
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Leslie Carron, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley
Escapement - 1958 aka The Electronic Monster
An insurance investigator finds there's more to electronic dream therapy than meets the eye. Highly recommended
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Kay Callard, Peter Illing, Carl Jaffe
First Man Into Space - 1959
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere returns, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards
Forbidden Cargo - 1954
Inspector Michael Kenyon is a Narcotics Agent who, with the aid of an eccentric bird-watcher, attempts to trap a dangerous smuggling gang
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Jack Warner, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell
The Floating Dutchman - 1953
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find a dead body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The Police are called in to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying
Quality: 8/10, UK
Stars: Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler, Mary Germaine
Dir: Vernon Sewell
Find The Lady - 1956
A woman returns to the country to see her Godmother only to find she has mysteriously disappeared
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Donald Houston, Beverly Brooks, Mervyn Johns, Kay Callard, Anne Heywood
Finger Of Guilt - 1956 aka The Intimate Stranger
A married film studio exec's life starts to fall apart when he is stalked by a beautiful woman who he claims he does n't know
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Roger Livesey, Mervyn Johns
The Glass Cage - 1955
Quality: 9/10 (ad's + bonus)
Stars: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann
Grip Of The Strangler - 1958
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler
Quality: 8/10, UK
Stars: Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan
Dir: Robert Day
The Gold Express - 1955
Honeymooning reporters get involved with a train carrying gold from the Spanish Armada
Quality: 8/10 (logo)
Stars: Vernon Gray, Ann Walford, May Hallatt, Ivy St Helier, Delphi Lawrence
The Green Buddha - 1955
Highly entertaining British crime B-movie with a thrilling Rollercoaster ride finale
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Wayne Morris, Mary Germaine, Marcia Ashton, Walter Rilla, Mary Merrall
The Green Scarf - 1954
An extremely rare mysterious and twisty tale
Quality 6/10 (rough quality but scarce)
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Keiron Moore, Leo Genn
Heart Of A Child - 1958
Set in the last days of WWI, the village's poor, drunkard farmer decides to sell his livestock and faithful dog, Rudi, to the butcher. His son is devastated and sets trying to save his dog
Quality: 8.5/10, logo
Stars: Jean Anderson, Donald Pleasence, Richard Williams, Charles Gray
Hidden Homicide - 1959
'Charters new waters of terribleness' one reviewer said. But this, although quite bonkers, is a very entertaining little thriller
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan, Bruce Seton
The Hideout - 1956
Hilarious review: the guns, gangsters and fast cars do their best but it's hard to disguise a bunch of Englishmen in tweed jackets, driving Ford Prefects'
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, Sam Kydd, Ronald Howard
The House In The Square - 1951
Wonderful time-travelling love story, recommended
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price
The Hour Of 13 - 1952
A jewel thief tries to trick the Police who suspect that the valuable stone he has stolen relates to the murder of eleven Policemen
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Derek Bond, Michael Hordern
Innocent Meeting - 1959
A teenager on probation is falsely accused of a robbery and a posh girl helps him out of trouble: 'grow a beard and wear corduroy pants' she says
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Sean Lynch, Beth Rogan, Raymond Huntley, Ian Fleming
It Started In Paradise - 1952
Portraying the cut-throat world of highs and lows inside the fashion industry
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow, Terrence Morgan, Ian Hunter, Kay Kendall
Jack The Ripper - 1959
An American detective is brought in to try help solve the Whitechapel Murders case, in this good adaptation]
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier
Knave Of Hearts - 1954 aka Monsieur Ripois
From the Louis Hemon novel 'M.Ripois and His Nemesis', about a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London
Quality: 9/10 France/UK, Subtitles, French language
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston, Natasha Parry
Joe MacBeth - 1955
Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out reigning crime boss so he can take over the manor, in this Shakespearean take
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Kay Callard, Sid James
Kill Her Gently - 1957
Two escaped convicts are picked up on the road by a man who wants to hire them to kill his wife
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell, Marc Lawrence, Marianne Brauns
Lady Of Vengeance - 1957
A man hires a killer (Diffring) to avenge an innocent girl's death in this cheeky crime caper
Quality: 6.5/10, occasional logo
Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears, Patrick Barr, Anton Diffring
The Lady Craved Excitement - 1950
A musichall performer and her boyfriend find themselves involved with some inept crooks
Quality: 6/10
Stars: Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sidney James, Andrew Keir, Thelma Grigg
Lady In The Fog - 1952
An American detective is enlisted by a British girl to find her Brother's killer who has been killed on a fog-bound street. Not as accidental as it seems, it seems....
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O'Farrell, Geoffrey Keen
Laughing Anne - 1953
Quality: 6/10 fairly rough quality
Stars: Wendell Corey, Maragret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker
Libel - 1959
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade
Quality: 8.5/10, occasional logo
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie
Life With The Lyons - 1954
Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Richard Lyon, Barbara Lyon, Hugh Morton
The Light Touch - 1951
Two art thieves operate in the Med. One steals a picture from a museum and tells the other it has been lost in a boat accident in an attempt to gain all the proceeds
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders
The Man From Yesterday - 1947
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered. Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband
Quality: 6.5/10, UK
Stars: John, Stuart, Henry Oscar, Marie Burke, Laurence Harvey
The Long Memory - 1953
Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial
Quality: 9/10
Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh, Geoffrey Keen
The Little Hut - 1957
Three people are washed ashore on a desert island after their ship is wrecked
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven
The Long Haul - 1957
After leaving the Army in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organised-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Peter Reynolds
Lost - 1956
An 18 month old baby disappears in London. Detective Inspector Craig tries to track down the kidnapper
Quality: 9/10
Stars: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall
Man Accused - 1959
Just after he has become engaged to a Baronet's daughter, Bob Jenson is arrested for robbery and murder. He breaks jail to track down the real criminals
Quality: 6.5/10, Prd by The Danzigers, Dir by Montgomery Tully
Stars: Ronald Howard, Carol Marsh, Ian Fleming, Robert Dorning
Mantrap - 1953
Quality: 6.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Keiron Moore, Hugh Sinclair, Bill Travers
The Man Without A Body - 1957
A wealthy businessman who is dying, enlists the help of a scientist who is experimenting with monkey transplants!
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall
Midnight Episode - 1950
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate, Wilfred Hyde-White, Natasha Parry
Moment Of Indiscretion - 1958
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ronald Howard, Lana Morris, John Van Eyssen, Denis Shaw
Morning Call - 1957
A successful Doctor is kidnapped and held for ransom. The Police use his wife as bait
Quality: 6.5/10, aka The Strange Case Of Dr Manning
Stars: Greta Gynt, Ron Randall, David Lander, Bruce Seton
Mr Peek a Boo - 1951
A mild-mannered government official discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls
Quality: 8.5/10 (a little audio noise. English language French/Italian co-prd)
Stars: Bourvil, Joan Greenwood, Gerard Oury, Roger Treville
My Death Is A Mockery - 1952
A fisherman cannot make a decent living from his trawler so he decides to turn his hand to smuggling
Quality: 6-7/10, some sync issues
Stars: Donald Houston, Kathleen Byron, Bill Kerr