Alfie Bass
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alfred Bass was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; their parents had fled persecution in Russia. He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio... Read full bio →
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Moonraker
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax.
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world (and Charles Dreyfus) believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Jacques Clouseau knows differently, and taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Come Play with Me
A health-resort where both the clients and the employees easily take their clothes off and have a little fun is the setting of this sex-comedy.
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
This early Seventies British comedy takes us through seven short stories based on the Seven Deadly Sins. This film is a montage of different styles, from Spike Milligan's mainly silent "Sloth", to the leering Harry H Corbett in "Lust".
Up the Junction
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
The Movie Orgy
A montage of 1950s B-movies, TV shows & vintage commercials create a nostalgic collage about aliens & monsters attacking America.
Dance of the Vampires
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
A Challenge for Robin Hood
After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group of outlaws.
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Doctor in Clover
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job.
Alfie
The film tells the story of a young man who leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Help!
Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it.
The Millionairess
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
A Tale of Two Cities
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
The Ship That Died of Shame
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Jumping for Joy
Frankie Howard stars as Willie Joy, the man whose new greyhound causes him all kinds of trouble. First, the pooch gets poorly and then Willy has to fend off race fixing gangsters.
The Night My Number Came Up
On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn.
Time Is My Enemy
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
The Passing Stranger
The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder.
Murder by Proxy
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.
Top of the Form
A con man hides out in a boys' school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few tests, cheating becomes the only option.
The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
The Planter's Wife
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
Derby Day
The stories of four sets of characters intersect via chance-encounters at Epsom Downs racecourse on the morning of Derby Day.
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Talk of a Million
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
Pool of London
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
High Treason
A wave of sabotage has been sweeping England, taking lives and creating instability. Cmdr. Robert Brennan and Supt. Folland of the Special Branch and Major Elliott of MI5 are charged with putting an end to this internal terrorism.
Stage Fright
The Hasty Heart
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Man on the Run
In post-war Britain, an army deserter unwittingly gets involved in murder and armed robbery and enlists the aid of a war widow to help clear his name.
Boys in Brown
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
The Monkey's Paw
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, and that wish is granted by a charm made from a severed monkey's paw.
It Always Rains on Sunday
Robert Hamer's bleak portrait of life in London's East End.
Holiday Camp
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter is a classic from British director David Lean about two people who fall in love yet face the fact that they are already married and can never be together.