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A Guest Is Coming - 1946
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 superbChristmas mystery
Quality: 9/10, Sweden, Subs, (UK/Euro disc) Highly recommended
Stars: Sture Lagerwall, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Erik Berglund, Gerd Hagman, Elsie Albiin
Autopsy - 1975 aka The Magician
A pathology medical student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders
Quality: 9/10, dubbed
Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Ray Lovelock, Barry Primus
Last Train From Bombay - 1952
An American diplomat in India falsely accused on the killing of an Indian dignitary and sets out to prove his innocence while trying to find the location of explosives planted on a Bombay train by terrorists. Busy guy!
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Jon Hall, Christine Larson, Lisa Ferraday
Murder On A Honeymoon - 1935
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
Sisters Of Death - 1976
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited for a reunion, in this creepy tvm-style thriller
Quality: 7/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Arthur Franz, Claudia Jennings, Cheri Howell, Sherry Boucher
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
Tarry-Dan - 1978
Three days before his 16th birthday, teenager Jonah Grattan finds himself followed by a scary tramp and haunted by mysterious nightmares about a battle fought near to the Cornish coastal village (Port Isaac) where he lives
Quality: 6-7/10
Stars: Paul Curran, Colin Mayes, Michael Deeks
T.F.I. The Rolling Stones + Back To Babylon - 1999
Filmed in Chicago in 1999. Interviews with Chris Evans plus backstage & onstage footage. 50 fab minutes. Plus Back To Babylon from the same year. BBC live + interviews. Grrreat!
Quality circa 8.5/10
Vanishing Act - 1986 US tvm
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
Stars: Mike Farrell, Margot Kidder, Fred Gwynne, Elliott Gould
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A Place Of One's Own - 1945
An elderly couple move into an old reputedly haunted house. A young lady who is employed as a companion becomes possessed by the spirit of a dead girl
Quality: 9/10
Stars:Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Barbara Mullen
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
Haunted: The Ferryman - 1974
A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman
Quality: 8/10, 50 mins.
Stars: Jeremy Brett, Natasha Parry, Geoffrey Chater, Lesley Dunlop
Hindle Wakes - 1931
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars:Sybil Thorndike, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Clare
If You Could Only Cook - 1935
An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler
Quality: 8.5/10, logo
Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
The Kennel Murder Case - 1933
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue
Quality: 7.5/10, logo (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
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
Screenplay: White Lady - 1987
In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power
Quality: 8/10, 50 mins.
Stars: Cornelius Garrett, Sophie Thompson, Jessica Martin, Meg Wynn Owen
To Catch A Killer - 2xdvd set
Telling the true gruesome story of Killer Clown, John Wayne Gacy, a respected and charitable figure in the community who turned out to be an evil serial killer
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder, Meg Foster
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
Stars: Nils Asther, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Birgitta Pettersson
