Jack Melford
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Lust for a Vampire
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.
A Shot in the Dark
A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
The Fourth Square
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
The End of the Line
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
Je plaide non coupable
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
The Ladykillers
Meet "The Unholy Five"...The Most Befuddled Set of Assorted Thugs That Ever Fouled Up a Million Dollar Bank Robbery!!
Background
In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. They underestimate the effect of their announcement on their three children, who assume that family friend Bill Ogden is to blame. Uncle Bill may indeed be waiting in the wings, but it's all hardly his fault.
My Brother Jonathan
Medical student Jonathan Dakers sacrifices his career to fund brother Harold's education. Harold and Edie fall in love but Harold dies in WWI leaving Edie pregnant. After Edie's death in childbirth, Jonathan raises their son Tony.
The October Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
They Met in the Dark
During World War II, a Royal Navy commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of German spies and fifth-columnists.
It's in the Air
A case of mistaken identity leads to accident-prone George Brown (George Formby) entering the Royal Air Force and falling in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter.
Radio Lover
Reggie Clifford (Jack Melford) masquerades as The Radio Lover a popular crooner, though the voice is actually that of Joe Morrison (Wylie Watson) whom is not considered to have the right kind of looks.
Honeymoon for Three
The trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier, finds out.