This powerfully emotional post-war drama from acclaimed British director Lance Comfort features commanding performances from Sally Gray, Stephen Murray, Nigel Patrick and Seymour Hicks, among others, with an excellent score by leading French composer Georges Auric. Released in 1949, Silent Dust is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Sir Robert Rawley is a self-made man in the most successful sense. The spur for his ambition had always been his son, Simon, but since Simon's death under fire his love has grown into an obsession. All is not as it seems, however - Simon deserted his post and faked his own death, and is now on the hunt for money...Special Feature: Original Theatrical Trailer
Featuring: 1. The Big Job (1965) 2. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 3. Make Mine A Million (1959)
Richard Attenborough portrays an innocent man on trial for his life in this compelling, sympathetic courtroom drama based on a true case. Directed by Lance Comfort - an under-appreciated British talent whose prolific career encompassed wartime biopic Penn of Pennsylvania and accomplished melodrama Hatter's Castle - Eight o' Clock Walk also features strong support from film noir heroine Cathy O'Donnell and character actor Maurice Denham. The film is presented here in a bra...
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money knows no boundaries, and will kill for it.
A Painted Smile / Rag Doll
The tension is unrelenting in this powerful crime drama, starring Michael Medwin as an innocent man standing trial for murder under the weight of apparently damning evidence. one of British cinema's most prolific and versatile, yet critically neglected, figures director Lance Comfort's body of work - typically tightly scheduled B-movies - has undergone re-appraisal only relatively recently; presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, Bang! You're Dead showcases ...
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
A ruthless kidnapper and blackmailer called Marlowe has abducted a young boy. After imprisoning the child in a deserted house Marlowe gives him a toy golly for comfort. But hidden inside the golly is time bomb which is set to explode at ten the following morning. A cracking thriller starring a wealth of stars from British film and television.
Pit Of Darkness
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion) a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul's money Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
The story of three successive marriages, told in flashback, Portrait of Clare features a memorably engaging central performance from Sydney-born actress Margaret Johnston, with Richard Todd, Robin Bailey and Ronald Howard as the men with whom she has shared joy, sorrow and bitterness. Directed by Lance Comfort, an under-appreciated British talent whose work is receiving a long-overdue critical reappraisal, the film is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. At the age of sixty-eight, Clare is helping her son Steven, now Lord Wolverbury, arrange her granddaughter's engagement party even though Steven and Clare believe the young girl to be marrying on the rebound. Clare questions her and, finding she is not really in love, begins to tell the story of her own life and loves...SPECIAL FEATURES:Image galleryOriginal pressbook PDF
Breaking Point A 1961 Butchers production made at Walton Studios. Peter Reynolds plays a 'nar do well' nephew of a successful printing company owner. His marriage to Johanna Dunham - who went on to star in the series Van Der Valk -is on the rocks his work at the printing firm is rather mundane until a small Eastern state Lalvador wanting plates made for their currency is the target of hostile forces. Reyonds is set up by the spies meanwhile Dermot Walsh of Richard The Lionheart fame closes in on Reynolds wife...typical B feature of the era, picture and sound of good quality.Man From Tangier Action starts in Tangier with a murder and a robbery. Voss (Martin Benson) one of the master crooks is after the thief who stole the plates and Michele (Lisa Gastoni) his unwilling moll is sent to retrieve them.Enter Collins (Robert Hutton) an American stunt man who, whilst having a haircut, his coat is accidentally switched which puts him right in the middle of the intrigue.. Good shots of Victoria station, Humber hawks etc. The story moves at a good pace and the picture and sound are of good quality.
Featuring 11 smash hit sounds from the likes of Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen Gene Vincent and Heinz Live It Up! Is a pop classics from the golden era of rock 'n' roll. GPO despatch riders dream of becoming as big as the Beatles with their own group The Smart Alecs. The master tape of a certain hit is lost and the plot accelerates to the pace of some vintage music.
Be My Guest
A secret vampire cult which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
In Ballyconnen Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until that is the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
When writer Greg Parker (Tony Britton) goes on holiday to get some perspective on his upcoming divorce little does he expect to be lodging in the same B&B as an escaped murderer (Jacko Thomas - William Lucas). When an undercover detective is brutally murdered after picking up the scent events take a dangerous turn for the worse. But will Jacko's sister Sue (Christina Gregg) realise her brother is a killer in time to help Parker escape his clutches?
Postwar Gothic thriller featuring Britain's first female serial killer. In the small Irish town of Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) - and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off to Yorkshire by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond), Emmy is taken in by a farmin...
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