Hue and Cry
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
The Third Secret
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
The Battle of the Sexes
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.
Decision Against Time
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
The Love Lottery
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Another Shore
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
Dance Hall
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
The Divided Heart
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
The Girl of the Canal
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
The Titfield Thunderbolt
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
Against the Wind
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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Charles Crichton
Director
Barry Ford
as
Bit Part
Alastair Sim
as
Felix H. Wilkinson
Andrew Sachs
as
Schoolboy
Richard Attenborough
as
Alfred Price-Gorham
Judi Dench
as
Miss Humphries
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as
Police Officer
Sam Wanamaker
as
Commentary spoken by
Patricia Hayes
as
Jeannie Macdougall
Peter Sellers
as
Mr. Martin
Donald Pleasence
as
Crabtree
Howard Marion-Crawford
as
Ingrams
Theodore Bikel
as
Parsimonious
Gordon Jackson
as
Ralph
Humphrey Bogart
as
Self - Cameo Appearance
Wilfrid Brambell
as
Moore
Marne Maitland
as
Photographer
Diana Dors
as
Carole
Natasha Parry
as
Eve
Robert Henderson
as
Special Dancer
Geoffrey Keen
as
Marks
Carl Duering
as
Postman
Alexander Knox
as
The Chief Justice
Megs Jenkins
as
Barmaid
Sidney James
as
Hawkins
Sam Kydd
as
Policeman
Peter Illing
as
Andrew
Simone Signoret
as
Michèle
Robert Shaw
as
Chemist at Police Exhibition
Patrick Barr
as
Divisional Detective Inspector
Meredith Edwards
as
P.C. Williams
Arthur Hambling
as
Wallis
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