P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Contraband Spain

1955

English

5.3

♡ 5

Crime

Drama

Lawrence Huntington Director

Lloyd Lamble as Embassy Official

Christopher Lee as Narrator

Arnold Bell as Preventive Officer

Andreas Malandrinos as Proprietor of 'Magasin Gautier'

An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.

Curse of the Fly

1965

English

5.1

♡ 10

Don Sharp Director

Warren Stanhope as Hotel Manager

Arnold Bell as Hotel Porter

Angelo Rossitto as Kia Mamas

George Baker as Martin Delambre

The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.

Dunkirk

1958

English

7.1

♡ 7

73%

Action

based on a true story

Leslie Norman Director

Arnold Bell as Commander - Royal Navy

John G. Heller as German Soldier

Kenneth Cope as Lieutenant Lumpkin

Ronald Hines as Private Miles

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1964

English

7.6

♡ 12

82%

83%

Action

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

husband wife relationship

Bryan Forbes Director

Nanette Newman as Mrs. Clayton

Arnold Bell as Mr. Weaver

Ronald Hines as Policeman Outside Clayton's

Richard Attenborough as William Henry 'Bill' Savage

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.

The Diamond Wizard

1954

English

5.8

♡ 1

Dennis O'Keefe Director

Paul Hardtmuth as Dr. Eric Miller

Patrick Jordan as First Fox & Hounds Detective

Arnold Bell as Police Chemist

Alan Wheatley as Thompson Blake

While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis O'Keefe) assists Scotland Yard Insp. McClaren (Philip Friend) in his search for a missing atomic scientist (Paul Hardtmuth). The detective duo discovers that the key to solving both cases may rest with the scientist's daughter (Margaret Sheridan) and her fascinating diamond.

Evergreen

1934

English

6.6

♡ 3

83%

Victor Saville Director

Norma Varden as Barmaid

Jessie Matthews as Harriet Green

Betty Shale as Mrs. Hawkes

Arnold Bell as Reporter

Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.

Raiders in the Sky

1953

English

6.5

♡ 2

Philip Leacock Director

Nigel Stock as Co-Pilot

Carl Duering as German Duty Officer

William Sylvester as Mac

Arnold Bell as Padre

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.

Spy 77

1933

English

5.8

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Arthur B. Woods Director

Arnold Bell as Austrian Officer

Austin Trevor as Captain Larco

Lester Matthews as Coloneilo Romanelli

Cecil Ramage as Ermete Davila

Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.

Heavens Above!

1963

English

6.7

♡ 3

71%

Comedy

satire

vicar

John Boulting Director

Cecil Parker as Archdeacon Aspinall

Roy Kinnear as Fred Smith

Arnold Bell as Stockbroker Renshaw

John Harvey as Wilson

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

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Contraband Spain

Curse of the Fly

Dunkirk

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

The Diamond Wizard

Evergreen

Raiders in the Sky

Spy 77

Heavens Above!