Pink String and Sealing Wax
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
The Halfway House
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
Storm in a Teacup
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Convoy
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
San Demetrio London
Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
Jamaica Inn
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
80,000 Suspects
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Far into the Night
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
The Confessional
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
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Robert Hamer
Director
Gordon Jackson
as
David Sutton
Tom Walls
as
Capt. Meadows
Alec Mango
as
Man at hotel bar
Roland Pertwee
as
Prison Governor
Victor Saville
Director
Arthur Wontner
as
Fiscal
Rex Harrison
as
Frank Burdon
Cecil Parker
as
Provost William Gow
John Wengraf
as
Commander Deutschland
Albert Lieven
as
Commander U.37
Michael Wilding
as
'Dot'
Norman Wooland
as
Paris
Laurence Harvey
as
Romeo
Ralph Michael
as
2nd. Officer Hawkins
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Robert Newton
as
Jem Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Maureen O'Hara
as
Mary - Joss Merlyn's Niece
Basil Radford
as
Sir Humphrey's Friend
Val Guest
Director
Ray Barrett
as
Health Inspector Bennett
Kay Walsh
as
Matron
Alfie Bass
as
(uncredited)
Norman Eshley
as
Father Bernard Cutler
Susan Penhaligon
as
Jenny Welch
Andrew Sachs
as
Man in Church
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