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Odd Man Out Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out and Mandy
The Fallen Idol (Country: UK; Year: 1948; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: Graham Greene, Lesley Storm, William Templeton; Stars: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey, Denis O'Dea, Jack Hawkins, Walter Fitzgerald, Dandy Nichols, Joan Young, Karel Stepanek, Gerard Heinz, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Geoffrey Keen, Bernard Lee)
A butler working in a foreign embassy falls under suspicion when his wife falls to her death and the only witness is a child.
The Happiest Days Of Your Life (Country: UK; Year: 1950; Director: Frank Launder; Writer: Frank Launder, John Dighton; Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Grenfell, John Turnbull, Richard Wattis, John Bentley, Guy Middleton, Percy Walsh, Arthur Howard, Edward Rigby, Harold Goodwin, Gladys Henson, Muriel Aked, Bernadette O'Farrell, Myrette Morven)
A mix-up at the Ministry sees a respectable girls' school evacuated to the all-male Nutbourne College, much to the horror of their respective headteachers.
Hell Drivers (Country: UK; Year: 1957; Director: Cy Endfield; Writer: John Kruse, Cy Endfield; Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson, Sidney James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum, Sean Connery, Wensley Pithey, George Murcell, Marjorie Rhodes)
An ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss's rackets.
Mandy (Country: UK; Year: 1952; Director: Alexander Mackendrick; Writer: Nigel Balchin, Jack Whittingham, based on the novel by Hilda Lewis; Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Godfrey Tearle, Mandy Miller, Marjorie Fielding, Nancy Price, Edward Chapman, Patricia Plunkett, Eleanor Summerfield, Colin Gordon, Dorothy Alison, Julian Amyes, Gabrielle Brune, John Cazabon)
A teacher tries to help a deaf and mute child to communicate.
Night And The City (Country: UK; Year: 1950; Director: Jules Dassin; Writer: Jo Eisinger, based on the novel by Gerald Kersh; Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L Sullivan, Herbert Lom, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Mike Mazurki, Charles Farrell, Ada Reeve, Ken Richmond)
A small time American hustler in post war London takes on the hoodlum who runs the wrestling rackets.
Obsession Obsession
Obsession and The Passionate Friends
Obsession (The Hidden Room) (Country: UK; Year: 1949; Director: Edward Dmytryk; Writer: Alec Coppel, based on the novel A Man About A Dog; Stars: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, Michael Balfour, Olga Lindo, Ronald Adam)
A man plots revenge against his wife's lover.
Odd Man Out (Country: UK; Year: 1947; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff, from the novel by F.L. Green; Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan, F.J. McCormick, William Hartnell, Fay Compton, Denis O'Dea, W.G. Fay, Maureen Delaney, Eleyn Brook-Jones, Robert Beatty, Dan O'Herlihy, Kitty Kirwan, Beryl Measor, Roy Irving, Joseph Tomelty, Arthur)
An injured IRA man goes on the run in the forbidding back streets of Belfast.
The Passionate Friends (One Woman's Story) (Country: UK; Year: 1949; Director: David Lean; Writer: Eric Ambler and Stanley Haynes, based on the novel by H.G. Wells.; Stars: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean, Betty Ann Davies)
A tragic love triangle spanning two decades.
Peeping Tom (Face Of Fear) (Country: UK; Year: 1960; Director: Michael Powell; Writer: Leo Marks; Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson, Esmond Knight, Martin Miller, Michael Goodliffe, Jack Watson, Shirley Anne Field)
A young photographer becomes fascinated by expressions of fear, with deadly consequences.
Simon and Laura (Country: UK; Year: 1955; Director: Muriel Box; Writer: Peter Blackmore, Alan Melville; Stars: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham, Thora Hird, Richard Wattis, Muriel Pavlow)
A bickering couple get the opportunity to revitalise their careers by starring in a reality TV show.
The Fallen Idol The Fallen Idol
The Fallen Idol and Simon and Laura
Whisky Galore! (Tight Little Island) (Country: UK,; Year: 1949; Director: Alexander Mackendrick; Writer: Compton MacKenzie, Angus MacPhail, based on the novel by Compton MacKenzie; Stars: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson, Gabrielle Blunt, Gordon Jackson, Jean Cadell, James Robertson Justice, Morland Graham, John Gregson, James Woodburn, James Anderson, Jameson Clark, Duncan Macrae, Mary MacNeil, Nor)
Classic Ealing comedy where a group of Scottish islanders rescue and hide a shipwrecked cargo of whisky.
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