Olive Sloane
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The House in Marsh Road
A novelist and his sexy lover plot to kill the novelist's wife so he can inherit her fortune including her house that happens to be haunted.
Wrong Number
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
The Price of Silence
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and started to build a new life. But his past catches up after an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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.
The Last Man to Hang
Sir Roderick Strood is on trial for the murder of his wife.
The Weak and the Wicked
Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.
Meet Mr. Lucifer
A T.V. set given as a retiremant present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. One of the Ealing comedies.
My Wife's Lodger
A soldier comes home from the war expecting a warm welcome, but he finds that his wife had taken in a lodger during his absence, and now she and his somewhat dingy daughter seem to be paying much more attention to the lodger than to him.
Waterfront
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Seven Days to Noon
When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.
Under Capricorn
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.
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.
Thunder Rock
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank.
Tower of Terror
A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
Sing as We Go!
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
The Good Companions
Musical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.