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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
Appointment With Crime - 1946
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Joyce Howard
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 Brighton Strangler - 1945
After receiving an injury in the Blitz, an actor becomes the part he was playing on stage - the Brighton Strangler
Quality: 8.5/10, US production
Stars: John Loder, June Duprez
Compelled - 1960
Heist thriller. An ex-con engineer is blackmailed into helping construct a tunnel between a bookshop and the intended robbery target, a jewellers
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Ronald Howard, Beth Rogan, John Gabriel
Dir: Ramsey Herrington
Daybreak - 1946
A hangman conceals his identity when he takes his new wife to live on a barge
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Bill Owen
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
The Case Of The Missing Heiress - 1949
A young woman goes missing under strange circumstances. A friend tries to find out what happened to her
Quality: 6.5/10
Stars: Valentine Dyall, Julia Lang, Hugh Griffith
Dual Alibi - 1946
Dark British 'twins' thriller with a fine dual performance form Herbert Lom
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney, Ronald Frankau, Eugene Deckers
The Durant Affair - 1960
When society hostess Ethel Durant dies leaving a vast estate, the search begins for the rightful heir. Believed to have died childless, it soon becomes clear that Ethel's life before her rise to fortune, was shrouded in mystery and controversy
Stars: Jane Griffiths, Conrad Phillips, Nigel Green
Quality: 8/10
Dir: Godfrey Grayson
Escape - 1948
Following an accidental killing, an ex RAF pilotgoes on the run until he can prove his innocence
Quality: 7/10, audio sync issue, so don't look too closely!
Stars: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnel, Patrick Troughton
Feet Of Clay - 1960
Quality: 7/10 (region free EURO PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Vincent Ball, Wendy Williams, Hilda Fenemore, Angela Douglas
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
Gang War - 1962
Two criminals get into conflict over a Juke Box crime racket in this super rare Danziger Prodcution. Tasty theme tune
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Sean Kelly, Eira Heath, David Davies
The Gentle Terror - 1963
The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror, in this Danziger low-rent crime production
Quality: 6.5/10, UK
Stars: Terence Alexander, Angela Douglas, Jill Hyem, Victor Spinetti
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
Good-Time Girl - 1948
A troubled girl runs away from home and falls in with some bad sorts, in this excellent good-girl-gone-bad drama
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Flora Robson
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
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
Hotel Reserve - 1944
A refugee from what was formerly Austria, is now staying at a resort hotel on the French Riviera when he's picked up as a spy
Quality: 9/10
Stars: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Herbert Lom, Raymond Lovell, Clare Hamilton
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
Meet Sexton Blake - 1945
Sexton and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: David Farrar, Manning Whiley, Betty Huntley-Wright
Night Without Stars - 1951
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera where he meets and falls for the lovely widow, but is horrified when he discovers she is involved in smuggling and murder
Quality: 8.5/10, UK, feint logo
Stars: David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac
Dir: Anthony Pelissier
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
One Jump Ahead - 1954
I shall always look back on this as one of my gayest evening. Ruins, a body and Scotland Yard sandwiches. Who could ask for more?' Excellent crime drama
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, Jill Adams
River Patrol - 1948
Quality: 7/10
Stars: John Blythe, Lorna Dean, Wally Patch, Stan Paskin
The Saint's Girl Friday - 1953
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend (aka The Saint's Return)
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Diana Dors, Sydney Taffler, Jane Carr, William Russell
The Secret Partner - 1961
A wealthy London-based shipping magnate is blackmailed by an evil dentist which threatens to reveal an old case of fraud
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Stewart Granger, Bernard Lee, Haya Harareet, Melissa Stribling
Temptation Harbour - 1947
A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which later finds is full of banknotes worth £5000
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell
Dir: Lance Comfort
The Siege Of Sidney Street - 1960
A girl recalls the catalystic events leading up to a house seige by 100 Police Officers
Quality: 9/10, UK
Stars: Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore, Peter Wyngarde
Dir: Robert S. Baker/Monty Berman
The Straw Man - 1953
An insurance company investigate, when a pay-out is due if a convicted man goes to prison
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Dermot Walsh, Clifford Evans, Lana Morris, Amy Dalby
They Came By Night - 1940
A jeweller goes undercover to help the Police bring a gang of thieves to justice
Quality: 6.5/10
Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Will Fyffe, Kathleen Harrison
They Drive By Night - 1938
An ex con released from prison goes to find his girl, but she has been murdered, so he legs it
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Emyln Williams, Anna Konstam, Ernest Thesiger, William Hartnell
Third Party Risk - 1954
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Finlay Currie, Maureen Swanson, Simone Silva, Ferdy Mayne