Mogambo is a 1953 movie that takes place in Africa and revolves around a love triangle between a game hunter, a socialite, and a safari guide. Tensions rise as the characters navigate the dangers of the jungle and face their inner conflicts. It is a story of love, betrayal, and survival.
Gorgo is a movie about a giant prehistoric creature that is captured and brought to London to be displayed as a spectacle. However, when the creature's mother comes looking for her baby, chaos ensues as the monsters wreak havoc on the city. It is up to a group of scientists and the Royal Navy to try and stop the rampage before it destroys everything in its path.
During World War II, a group of Scottish islanders face a shortage of whiskey due to food rationing. They come up with a plan to salvage whiskey from a stranded shipwreck, but face obstacles along the way.
Set during World War II, The Cruel Sea follows the crew of a British corvette tasked with protecting convoys from German U-boats in the treacherous North Atlantic. The film explores the sacrifices, dangers, and camaraderie experienced by the naval officers and crew in their fight against the enemy.
A police officer is murdered, and his colleague sets out to find the killer with the help of witnesses and Scotland Yard. The investigation leads to car chases, robberies, and a desperate search for justice.
In 19th century London, Sweeney Todd, a barber, teams up with a baker to seek revenge on the corrupt judge who framed him and destroyed his family. Todd's plan involves murdering his customers and turning them into meat pies, with the baker unknowingly serving the victims to the public. As Todd's bloodlust grows, he becomes more ruthless and cunning, eventually descending into madness.
Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, made by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest plice procedural to be made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet which had gone on air in 1951. There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first 30 were broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings between 13 November 1954 and 22 June 1955, with the exceptions of Christmas Day and New Year's Day which happened to fall on a Saturday. For unknown reasons, the final six episodes were held back, and were later broadcast intermittently between November 1955 and February 1956. The series was later broadcast in the U.S. under the name Fabian of Scotland Yard.
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
A woman falls in love with a charming stranger, but begins to suspect that he may be a dangerous serial killer.
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.