The Cruel Sea (1953)
The Cruel Sea (1953) At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while
The Canterville Ghost (1996)
The Canterville Ghost (1996) When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974) An Edwardian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when t
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954) Lt. Sylvester Green is making his crooked way shipwards with a couple of naval colleagues after a night's drinking and along the way they collect an old pram and three brass balls from a pawnbroker's shop. Passing the foreign vessel Agraria on the dock they notice so
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) Peter Weston is engaged to Vanessa Colebrook, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. On a journey home on a steamer he meets an old sea hand who shares with him how his wife won't let him keep his pet Daisy anymore. Weston offers him a kind ear and the sailor takes hi
The Captains Table (1959)
The Captains Table (1959) A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he bec
Doctor at Large (1957)
Doctor at Large (1957) Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surge
The Black Tent (1956)
The Black Tent (1956) In the African desert, a British soldier romances the native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a Nazi attack.
Operation Bullshine (1959)
Operation Bullshine (1959) The fun starts when a group of A.T.S. girls are posted to a light ack-ack command post on a remote part of the English coast.
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962)
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962) A sanatorium where a group of patients reside. They aspire to walk twice round the daffodils which they can do when they are better.
The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)
The Siege of Sidney Street (1960) As armed police surround a house in the East End of London, a young lady under medical supervision nearby thinks back to the events that lead her and a group of Russian refugee political ...
Mix Me a Person (1962)
Mix Me a Person 1962 Swinging coffee bars, cigarettes, jazz, youthful delinquency and a copper gets killed Did Adam Faith pull the trigger Can Anne Baxter prove his innocence in time
The Beachcomber (1954)
The Beachcomber 1954 Ewart Gray Donald Sinden is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the sanctimonious, psalm singing brother and sister missionary team of Martha Jones Glynis Johns and Reverend Owen Jon