Kynaston Reeves
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kynaston Reeves (29 May 1893, London, England - 5 December 1971, London, England) was christened Philip Arthur Reeves, and was an English character actor who appeared in numerous films and many television plays and series. Description... Read full bio →
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Anne of the Thousand Days
Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Hot Millions
A con-artist (Peter Ustinov) gains employment at a insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
In the Doghouse
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
The Shadow of the Cat
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Don't Bother to Knock
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent.
Carry on Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
The Night We Got the Bird
Cecil's family is unaware that he and his cabinet-maker employee are making and selling false antique furniture. It is only after he dies and his salesman Bertie marries his widow Julie, that the truth comes out through Cecil re-appearing as a parrot, puzzlingly given as a wedding gift.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
A former British colony in dire need of economic aid tries to play the British against the Soviets in an attempt to secure economic aid from either side in return for political loyalty.
Fiend Without a Face
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances.
Brothers in Law
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
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 Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Eight O'Clock Walk
In post-WW2 England, a taxi driver is ostracized by society after he's accused of murdering a school-girl and his untried lawyer must find the real killer to save his client from the hangman.
Burnt Evidence
An unfaithful wife is going to leave her husband, a failing carpenter, but he finds out about her lover and a murder takes place. Police try to identify whether the burned body is her husband or her lover.
Four Sided Triangle
A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves.
Smart Alec
A bizarre attempt at a humorous murder mystery. A fat rich man snoozing on a balcony is bludgeoned to death while the Smart Alec of the title has one of the dumbest alibis ever. Antics from Kynaston Reeves and young Charles Hawtrey involve lots of shouting.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.
Trio
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
The 20 Questions Murder Mystery
BBC Radio's 20 Questions receives anonymous clues that connect to a series of murders. Reporters try and break the code before more deaths come to pass.
Madeleine
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Blackout
A blind man's sight is restored in time to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's dead (or is he) brother and a gang of currency smugglers.
The Winslow Boy
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
The Guinea Pig
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Bedelia
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 has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
The Echo Murders
The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
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.
The Stars Look Down
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
The Outsider
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
Sons of the Sea
A cadet and military captain investigate murder at military college, suspecting the victim was targeted. They race to uncover the truth and stop the killer before he strikes again, amid suspicious professors and intelligence operations.
Dead Men Are Dangerous
Down-and-out writer finds dead man, assumes identity. Falsely accused, he uses diary and murder weapon to expose real killers while evading Scotland Yard. Truth clears him and lover, unveiling a twisted tale of misjudgment and deceit.
The Citadel
Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London.
Housemaster
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
The Lodger
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.