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Christmas Inspired Films and TV! LOTS OF NEW TITLES ADDED
Traditional Festive films and other suitably dark tales for Wintery days & nights at home
A Christmas Carol - 1971+1977
Quality: 7-8.5/10 (variable/very good)
1971: Alastair Sim, Michael Redgrave, Michael Hordern, Diana Quick, Joan Sims
1977: Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn
A Christmas Carol - 2000
An unscrupulous loan shark who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Ross Kemp, Warren Mitchell, Liz Smith, Ray Fearon, Michael Maloney
A Darkness at Blaisedon - 1969 US tv pilot (Dead of Night)
Investigator Jonathon Fletcher and his assistant Sajeed Rau investigate supernatural incidents that the local authorities either cannot or will not tackle. A pilot for a never-to-be series. "When you're dealing with the dead, anything can happen"
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Cal Bellini, Thayer David, Marj Dusay
A Guest Is Coming - 1947
The owner of an old mansion has decided to sell it. The next morning he is found murdered. Writer George Essman must try to figure out who the killer is, in this superb Winter mystery
Quality: 9/10, Sweden, Subs, (UK/Euro disc) Highly recommended
Stars: Sture Lagerwall, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Erik Berglund, Gerd Hagman, Elsie Albiin
Alias Nick Beal - 1949
A district attorney rises to political success but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal. Always reminds me of Christmas for some reason...
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free dvd-r disc only) good quality upgrade, best available print
Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Geraldine Wall
The Ash Tree - 2000 + The Tractate Middoth - 2013
The unreleased episode of Christopher Lee reading M.R.James's The Ash Tree from the Ghost Stories For Christmas series, plus the superb interpretation of an MR short from 1911 by Mark Gatiss
Quality: 7/10 and 9/10 (variable/very good - excellent. Circa 30 minutes each)
Bernard And The Genie - 1991
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle!
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro R2 and R4 format disc only)
Stars: Lenny Henry, John Gabriel, Alan Cumming, Rowan Atkinson
The Bishop's Wife - 1947
An Angel appears to try to help an obsessed Bishop and his beautiful wife to rekindle their love
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young
Beyond Tomorrow - 1940
The ghosts of three elderly businessmen killed in an air crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Charles Winninger, Richard Carlson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Jean Parker
Britain's Most Terrifying Ghost Stories - 2001
Ian McShane narrates some entertainingly re-enacted spooky ghost stories that are fun on a cold Winter's night by the fire
Quality 8/10, 50 minutes (Euro/PAL disc)
The Blue Boy - 1994
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck they end up at the hotel Joe uses for his other activities. An eerie tale of love and deception
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar, Eleanor Bron
The Cheaters - 1945
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson
Christmas Eve - 1947
To save her fortune from a scheming nephew, Matilda Reed must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion
Quality: 8/10
Stars: George Raft, George Brent, Joan Blondell, Randolph Scott, Virginia Field
Christmas In Connecticut - 1945
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when she has to produce a traditional family Christmas
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
The Christmas Wife - 1988 US tvm
Not wanting to face his first Christmas alone, Widower John Tanner decides to try an introduction agency
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Don Francks, Patricia Hamilton
Coast To Coast - 1987
An American Army deserter and a black British guy meet, find they share a love of classic Soul music and plan to start a mobile disco using an old ice-cream van. But trouble soon comes their way
Quality: 8/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Lenny Henry, John Shea, Peter Vaughan, Cherie Lunghi, Pete Postlethwaite
Cor Blimey! - 2000
Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the Carry-Ons during the 60s and 70's. Great for Christmas!
Quality: 8.5/10, logo
Stars: Jacqueline Defferary, Geoffrey Hutchings, David McAlister, Samantha Spiro
The Cormorant - 1993
Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true, but the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not the Cormorant that comes with the house, but vice versa
Quality: 8.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger, Thomas Williams
The Dean Martin Christmas Show - 1967
The many members of the Sinatra and Martin families perform song and dance routines, and classic skits
Quality:a 6-7/10, vhs video
Daisies In December - 1995
A grumpy senior citizen dumped at a retirement home by his vacationing family finds love with a new acquaintance who hides a secret
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Joss Ackland, Jean Simmons, Pippa Guard, Muriel Pavlow
Do Not Disturb - 1991
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont, other forces start to stir
Quality: 8.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Frances Barber, Peter Capaldi, Éva Darlan
Earthbound - 1940
A murdered man's spirit helps his widow bring his killer to justice, in this excellent sci-fi fantasy. Not a Christmas film but does have some snowy Alpine settings. A good film for the festive period
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Warren Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari
The Enchanted Castle - 1979
Rare Children's adventure series set in a haunted Castle
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Candida Beveridge, Georgia Slowe, Simon Sheard, Diane Mercer
The Enchanted Cottage - 1945
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. Gradually they find happiness together
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
The Enchanted Forest - 1945
A lost child is found in the woods and raised by an old Hermit who raises him to appreciate the joys nature
Quality: 8.5/10, US
Stars: Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, William Severn, Harry Davenport
The Greatest Store In The World - 1999 (UK TV Christmas Film)
A charming Christmas TV film in which a Mum and her girls, who are having to live rough on the streets in London, end up moving into a department store at Christmas time. They get involved with a couple of bumbling jewellery thieves who want to rob the store safe. Lots of family fun
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Dervla Kirwan, Elizabeth Earl, Holly Earl, Peter Capaldi
Ending Up - 1989
A traditional Christmas with a load of particularly eccentric old folk takes a turn for the worse when a practical joke goes horribly wrong!
Stars: John Mills, Wendy Hiller, Michael Hordern, Lionel Jeffries, Googie Withers
Quality: 6/10 tvm, poor video transfer
Ghosts - 1995 (3 discs)
Six ghost stories from BBC's Screen Two series, 1995
Three Miles Up
Blood and Water
The Shadowy Third
The Chemistry Lesson
Massage
I'll Be Watching You
Quality: circa 7.5-8/10
Stars: Paul Rhys, Moira Brooker, Douglas Henshall, Anita Dobson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samantha Bond, Derrick O'connor, Cheryl Campbell, Alan Cumming
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square - 1947
Ghosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch. A comedy/fantasy classic
Quality: 8/10, logo
Stars: Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Arnaud, Claude Hulbert
Ghosts Of Kasane Swamp - 1957 aka The Depths
A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp
Quality: 9/10, subs
Stars: Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa
Ghost Story of the Snow Witch - 1968
The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm
Quality: 8.5/10, letterbox
Stars: Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa
Haunting Harmony - 1993
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in an English Church school
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Nathaniel Moreau, Jean-Marc Perret, Frank Middlemass, Francesca Annis
The Haunting Of Julia - 1977
After the death of her daughter a wealthy housewife restarts her life in London where she becomes haunted by the ghosts of other lost children
Quality: 8.5+/10 (Can/UK)
Stars: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett
The Haunting Of M - 1979
A turn of the Century ghost story in which a woman is haunted by a spectre whom roams the corridors of her shadowy mansion
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Sheelagh Gilbey, Nini Pitt, Alan Hay, Eric Garratt
Home For The Holidays - 1972 US tvm
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Jessica Walter, Sally Field, Jill Haworth, Julie Harris, Eleanor Parker
Leap In The Dark - Supernatural Series 1973-77 Volume 1 (3 discs)
Fantastic, rare time-capsule series investigating real life cases of the Supernatural. Amazing stuff. Quality: 7-8/10
1. Pilot (9th Jan 1973) (S1)
2. The Vandy Case (10th Oct 1973) Written by Anne Owen (S2)
3. Dream Me a Winner (14th Jan 1977) Written by Colin Godman (S3)
4. 2. The Fetch (21st Jan 1977) Written by Anne Owen (S3)
5. The Ghost of Ardachie Lodge (28th Jan 1977, time-coded) Written by Colin Godman (S3)
6. Undercurrents (4th Feb 1977) (S3)
7. Parlour Games (11th Feb 1977) Written by Anne Owen (S3
Leap In The Dark - Supernatural Series Volume 2 (3 discs)
Another set of these brilliantly innovate programmes. This later batch of investigations are all dramatised films, real life cases of supernatural occurences, and are both intriguing and cracking fun to watch!
Quality very good, circa 8/10
1. In The Mind's Eye - 1977
2. Jack Be Nimble - 1980
3. Room For Inward Light - 1980
4. To Kill A King - 1980
5. Poor Jenny - 1980
6. The Living Grave - 1980
Stars include: Diane Collett, Jack Be Nimble, Sally Baxter, Brian Blessed,
Carole Hawkins, John Carlin, Emma Jacobs, Lesley Dunlop
I'll Be Seeing You - 1944
A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton
It Happened On 5th Avenue - 1947
A homeless New Yorker moves into a closed-up mansion and along the way gathers various aquaintances who move in with him
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Gale Storm
I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes - 1948
A dancer is framed for murder after his shoe prints are found at a crime scene, in this Christmas Noir and his wife Ann, takes to the streets to try and clear his name
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey
The Mind Beyond - 1976 (x3 disc set, 6 episodes)
BBC 2 Playhouse - "The Mind Beyond"
Six brilliantly bizarre tales of the Supernatural - great quality tv series. This is unmissable stuff!
Disc 1: For The Love Of A Good Woman; The Daedalus Equations
Disc 2: Stones; The Man With The Power
Disc 3: The Double Echo (time-coding onscreen throughout); Meriel, The Ghost Girl
Stars collectively: Geoffrey Bayldon, Donald Pleasence, John Bluthal, Johnny Briggs, Willie Jonah, Janet Street-Porter, Richard Butler, Richard Pasco, Judy Parfitt, John Wells, T.P. McKenna, Michael Bryant, Megs Jenkins, Peter Sallis, Jeremy Kemp, Anthony Bate, Gerry Cowper, Diana Fairfax, William Lucas
Quality: 8-8.5/10, UK tv
The Killing Of Santa Claus - 1941
An old globe-maker is mysteriously killed while going through the town, playing out his role as Father Christmas
Quality: 9/10, France, Subs
Stars: Harry Baur, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté
Leopard In The Snow - 1978
A beautiful young woman wrecks her car in a snowstorm and is found by a tormented, reclusive ex racing driver. It's a love story and there's snow in it, there is in Canada - and even a leopard at one point!
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Keir Dllea, Susan Penhaligon, Kenneth Moore, Billie Whitelaw
Lady In The Lake - 1946
The female editor of a crime magazine hires Philip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder, in this festive Film Noir
Quality: 8.5/10, occasional logo
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
Menace Unseen - 1988
A gripping three part tv mini series about a nuclear power industry conspiracy
Quality: 7.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Judi Bowker, Ian Ogilvy, John Sessions, Brenda Bruce
Mr Soft Touch - 1949
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, a War hero steals the money from the club's safe and hides out, while the mob is on his tail
Quality: 9/10 (region free EURO PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland
Precious Bane - 1989
In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who sees her in a different light
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Janet McTeer, John Bowe, Clive Owen, Jane Wood, Jim Carter, John McEnery
Season's Greetings - 1980
A party of eight meet to share Christmas together but when things become awkward oneof the guests leaves sooner than expected
Quality: 9/10 onscreen logo, tvm
Stars: Peter Vaughan, Geoffrey Palmer, Barbara Flynn, Lesley Dunlop
Shades Of Darkness - 1983/1986 (2 discs)
THE LADY MAID'S BELL (S1, EP 2)
AFTERWARD (S1 EP 4)
THE MAZE (S1 EP 5)
BEWITCHED (S1 EP 7)
THE INTERCESSOR (S1 EP2)
THE DEMON LOVER (S2 EP 1)
Quality: 8.5+/10
Quincy's Quest - 1979
Old-fashioned Christmas TV musical fantasy, part animated and part live action
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Tommy Steele, Mel Martin, Charles Morgan, Tony Aitken, Roy Kinnear, Gretchen Franklin
Silent Night, Lonely Night - 1969 (US tvm)
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity
Quality: 6/10, fairly poor as usual for tvm's *
Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Jones, Lynn Carlin
Dir: Daniel Petrie
Snow Treasure - 1968
It is 1940 in neutral Norway and Nazi Germany has invaded. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian kids like to do, ski! best - ski. But they are actually rescuing Norwegian gold from the Nazi invaders, in this family adventure
Quality: 8/10, US
Stars: Paul Austad, Tina Austad, Wilfred Breistrand,James Franciscus
Miss Morison's Ghosts - 1981
The highly regarded and compelling true Victorian ghost story
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Niall Toibin, Antonia Pemberton
Something To Live For - 1952
Set at Christmas time, an actress takes to drinkc after being jilted and is helped by an AA member who, although married, falls in love with her
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Ray Milland, Joan Fontaine, Teresa Wright
One Touch Of Venus - 1948
Great fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. However, the problems begin when Venus falls in love with him
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden
Minder On The Orient Express - 1985
Saving deceased gangster Jack South's daughter Nikki from an attack by hired thugs earns minder Terry McCann a trip for two across Europe, on the famous Orient Express
Quality: 7.5/10, tv film
Stars: Dennis Waterman, George Cole, Glynn Edwards, Honor Blackman, Patrick Malahide, Robert Beatty, Ralph Bates, Adam Faith, Amanda Pays
Silent Night Bloody Night - 1972
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region
Quality: 9/10 aka Deathouse
Stars: Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine
Sylvie et le Fantome - 1946
The magical tale of a ghost who helps a young girl find true happiness. Excellent stuff
Quality: 8/10, subtitles
Stars: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey, Jacques Tati
They Live By Night - 1948
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. Set during the festive period
Quality 8.5/10
Stars: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
The Turn Of The Screw - 1999
A Governess takes on a teaching position at a country estate and begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor, in this tv film version of the classic Henry James ghost story
Quality: 8.5/10, logo onscreen
Stars: Jodhi May, Colin Firth, Pam Ferris, Caroline Pegg
Uncle Silas - 1947
A young girl goes to stay with her scheming Uncle is his scary dark old mansion
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Jean Simmons, Katina Paxinou, Derrick De Marney, Derek Bond, Reginald Tate
Worlds Beyond - 1986-88 Volume 2
The second anthology containing the other five excellent supernatural short films
Oliver's Ghost; Reflections Of Evil; The Haunted Garden; Guardian Of The Past; Undying Love
Quality: 7/10, UK TV Series
Stars include: Denholm Elliott, Janet Key, David Warner, Sheila Gish, Ed Bishop, Judi Bowker, Rosemary Leach, Anna Cropper, Michael Jayston, Liz Smith, Paul Freeman, Mary Tamm
The Unseen - 1945
Governess Elizabeth Howard fears that David, both her widowed employer and the man she loves, could be the strangler that's stalking women in a small New England town
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks
Witchcraft - 1992
Drama series about a crew making a film about witchcraft. The director gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Peter McEnery, Alan Howard, Lisa Harrow, Judy Campbell, Clive Wood, Georgia Slowe
Winter Kill - 1974 US tvm
A sniper is killing residents at a winter resort. Who is going to die next?
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Andy Griffith, John Larch, Tim O'Connor
Vanishing Act - 1986
A man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports his wife's disappearance to the police. A few days later, a strange woman escorted by the local priest claims to be his missing wife, despite the man's inability to recognise her
Quality: 8.5/10, US tvm
Stars: Mike Farrell, Margot Kidder, Fred Gwynne, Elliott Gould
The Woman In White - 1948
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons, in this classic Gothic mystery
Quality: 9/10 (occasional logo)
Stars: Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Alexis Smith, Gig Young
Wintertime - 1943
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, Woody Herman and Orchestra
When Darkness Falls - 1960
A young girl visits relatives, the Vicar and and his young daughter, for Christmas in rural Sweden. The peaceful Christmas Eve celebrations are shattered when the local Grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. A Police Inspector is called in to investigate and he soon discovers that there are many suspects. Highly recommended
Quality: 9/10, Sweden, Subs
Stars: Nils Asther, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Birgitta Pettersson
Worlds Beyond - 1986-88 Volume 1
The first anthology of eight excellent supernatural short films
Serenade For Dead Lovers; The Black Tomb; The Barrington Case; The Eye Of Yemanja; Voice From The Gallows; Home; Captain Randolph; Suffer Little Children
Quality: 7/10, UK TV Series
Stars include: Judi Bowker, Karen Black, Denholm Elliott, Connie Booth, David Warner