The inhabitants Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth. After receiving an unusually high number of reports of missing women, policeman Detective Hartley (Alfred Burke) begins to search for an explanation. Meanwhile, Jack Costain (John Saxon), an earnest American scientist, investigates the dramatic increase in UFO activityWonderful Cameo from Warren 'Alf Garnett' Mitchell and along side John Saxon are well know actors Ballard Berkeley ( Fawlty Towers) and the character actor Aubrey Morris (The Wicker Man)Includes the Hit 60's pop music track IMAGE by Joe Glenn, Larry Greene and Bob Sande
Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane star in this unique collection of Old Mother Riley films! Featuring: 1. MP 2. In Paris 3. New Venture 4. Jungle Treasure 5. Meets The Vampire 6. Headmistress
Robert Matthews (Emrys Jones) is arrested in Cornwall when he is mistaken for convict John Barlow, to whom he bears a striking resemblance. When Barlow hears of this, he makes his way to Matthews' cottage and takes his place. When there is a local shipwreck, one of the survivors is Anne Farrington, Matthews' fiancée. Barlow takes her in, maintaining his imposture, but soon discovers that Matthews is not all he seems.
Having been told he has only two years to live due to a heart condition Henry Paulson (Charles Victor), a bored bank clerk, makes a decision about his life. Fed up with his job and feeling unloved by his wife Henry Paulson hits upon a plan to steal money from the bank and escape to South America to live out his days in a blaze of fun and wealth. Whilst stealing the money however Paulson is discovered by the bank manager who he proceeds to imprison in his own office. On the run Paulson seeks refuge in an Eastbourne hotel but will he escape and rebuild his shattered life?
Paul Verlaine a struggling composer (John Garrick) is supported by Germaine (Merle Oberon) who is secretly in love with him. She encourages him to write and sing more modern songs and after enjoying a little success he is discovered and seduced by famous actress Simone St Clair (Margot Grahame) who he then marries. The marriage is doomed from the start and Paul Verlaine kills his wife's lover and is sent to Devils Island. He escapes and realising his hidden love for Germaine he writes a successful musical based on his life's experiences - but can the story have a happy ending?
Roger Moore is Simon Templar better know as The Saint. The Saint out-swindles the swindlers for the good of the little guy: he's handsome charming suave and sophisticated. Episodes include: Episode 11 - 'The Golden Journey' Episode 12 - 'The Romantic Matron' Episode 13 - 'The Man Who Was Lucky' Episode 14 - 'The Invisible Millionaire
A small coastal village is the setting for smuggling and ship wrecking. Only the Squire's son is prepared to speak out against the man responsible...
This Hammer Horror Resurrected box set collects Hammer movies from the mid-1960s (plus a stray 1975 title), an era when Hammer was making sequels or even sequels to sequels and occasionally cobbling together films with a lack of care that would not have passed muster in the 1950s. Nevertheless, all of these films have elements that remain pleasing and a good half of the titles represented are in the front-rank of the Hammer canon. Rasputin the Mad Monk is a bloodied-up slice of Russian history, hindered somewhat by the need to limit the sets to those that could be recycled from Dracula Prince of Darkness and a legal injunction to refrain from naming names. Christopher Lee makes a fair fist of the lead role, employing his Dracula staring eyes and wringing hands to go with an impressive false beard and using sheer force of will to dominate the Tsar's court, especially the elegantly masochistic lady-in-waiting Barbara Shelley. Frankenstein Created Woman sends Peter Cushing's Baron back to the drawing board and finds him diverted from his usual brain surgery and corpse-stitching into experimenting with cryogenic suspension and soul transference. Terence Fisher, on his third Hammer Frankenstein, directs the cynical script with cold flair. The side is let down only by Playboy Playmate Susan Denberg's insufficiently devastating lady monster. The Vengeance of She is the mildest effort in this bunch, a quickie sequel to She in which blonde, bosomy Czech "discovery" Olinka Berova did not turn out to be an international sensation along the lines of previous Hammer babes Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch. The feeble storyline peters out as the heroine is plagued by dreams that suggest she is the reincarnation of the evil ice queen Ayesha but then turns out not to be. The Plague of the Zombies is a grimmer Hammer, with cartoonish social comment ladled onto the voodoo goings-on. Cornish squire John Carson (even chillier than the usual Christopher Lee) enjoys rampaging around the countryside with his hunting pals abusing comely lasses while his fortune is kept going by the exploited living dead working his tin mine. Andre Morell has the Peter Cushing role as a concerned expert who recognises that there's voodoo in the air, and Jacqueline Pearce--unforgettable in director John Gilling's companion piece, The Reptile--is suitably affecting as the secondary heroine who turns into a seductive zombie and gets her head lopped off. In Quatermass and the Pit boffin Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) unearths an eerie history of insect aliens who have influenced human evolution when workmen extending the London underground discover a five million year old Martian spaceship. This is a rare intelligent science fiction movie with genuine ideas to go along with its creepy moments. 1975's To the Devil a Daughter was the last gasp of Hammer's horror cycle, an attempt to rejig Dennis Wheatley's once-popular Satanist-bashing novel into a post-Exorcist/Omen Devil movie. Fallen priest Christopher Lee tries to get teenage novice Nastassja Kinski pregnant with a monster, while pipe smoking occultist Richard Widmark does his best to foil the dastard. Sloppy, silly and awkwardly structured, with an especially limp climax (the villain is foiled by being bashed with a rock), it does manage some chills along the way, and has an interesting supporting cast of neurotics (especially Denholm Elliott, cowering inside a pentagram). This release presents a fuller version than some video or TV prints, including a strange sequence in which Kinski's womb is invaded by a repulsive demon child. The very young Kinski has a nude scene, but so does Christopher Lee's game stunt double. On the DVD: Hammer Horror Resurrected box set has no extras at all. But the films are presented in nice, anamorphic transfers which bring out the pretty pastels of the landscape around Bray Studios and the rich red splashes of blood. --Kim Newman
In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince. Returning home with their discovery the expedition members soon find themselves being killed off by a mummy which can be revived by reading the words off the prince's burial shroud...
Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane star in this unique collection of Old Mother Riley films! Featuring: 1. MP 2. In Paris 3. New Venture 4. Jungle Treasure 5. Meets The Vampire 6. Headmistress
Stepping into the role of Leslie Charteris' "modern-day Robin Hood" Simon Templar (formerly played in films by smoothies like George Sanders), Roger Moore swiftly struck the right poses, adding a raised eyebrow to the character's established trademarks--a stick figure with halo, a whistled theme (co-composed by Charteris himself) and a quixotic commitment to adventure rather than decency. More clean-cut than the vigilante of the novels, Moore's Templar is a reformed thief (with an accent on reformed) whose adventures invariably involve a beautiful girl in trouble, an exotic locale established by stock shots and pantomime-level barroom sets with revolving fans on the ceiling, and "foreign" villains, played by familiar British character actors in false moustaches. The Saint ran from 1962 to 1969. Connoisseurs reckon the earlier, black and white shows are superior to the later colour seasons. From 1979 to 1980, there was a follow-up, The Return of the Saint, in which sufficiently ironic Ian Ogilvy donned Templar's polo neck, but the format seemed outmoded in comparison with The Sweeney and The Professionals. Volume One contains: "The Talented Husband" in which a playwright is found dead in suspicious circumstances, with guest star Shirley (Goldfinger) Eaton; and "The Latin Touch" which concerns a kidnapping in Rome, with Suzan Farmer and Warren (Alf Garnett) Mitchell. --Kim Newman
A strange disease of epidemic proportions is invading the English town where Peter Thompson practices. In desperation he seeks the help of his mentor to make sense of the horrible plague. Amidst walking corpses voodoo dolls and empty graves the two embark on an investigation that uncovers a ghastly secret and leads them to the shocking truth.
A strange disease of epidemic proportions is invading the English town where Peter Thompson practices. In desperation he seeks the help of his mentor to make sense of the horrible plague. Amidst walking corpses voodoo dolls and empty graves the two embark on an investigation that uncovers a ghastly secret and leads them to the shocking truth.
Crime novelist Robert Southley (Hugh Sinclair) has a fondness for basing his books on his own experiences. When his luxurious London lifestyle is threatened by an American blackmailer, Southley chooses murder as his best weapon. To his horror, Southley is invited to help solve the case by Inspector MacDougall, in charge of the investigation at Scotland Yard. He reluctantly embarks on tracking down the 'unknown' killer... himself! Adding to his anxiety, his meddlesome secretary pitches theo...
When she witnesses a gang of three crooks brutally murdering her father in the course of a robbery, beautiful young Jean Talbot (Elizabeth Sellars - The Barefoot Contessa) vows to avenge him and to bring the perpetrators to justice. In the case of two of the three, fate beats her to it when they perish in a car crash fleeing the scene - but the third survives and invents an alibi the cops just can't break. Desperate to lead the killer to incriminate himself, she finds herself playing a deadl...
On assignment to London, American newspaper hack John Desmond, (Larry Parks) meets a mysterious woman (Lisa Daniely) in a nightclub and a brief romance ensues but our mystery lady is part of a counterfeit ring and Desmond is caught up in the whole affair. Desmond along with his English secretary the beautiful (Constance Smith) are kidnapped by the gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve a diary containing vital information. Also stars Alexander Gauge (Friar Tuck) and watch out for farm hand Thora Hird and cleaning lady Margot Bryant (Minnie Caldwell) of Coronation Street fame.
American actor Alex Nicol heads the cast of this 1954 British crime melodrama The Gilded Cage. Steve (Alex Nicol) a US security officer finds that his brother in London is involved in a racket to smuggle a priceless painting out of the country. Things hot up a murder is committed and the brothers are caught up in the affair and have to fight hard to expose the gang behind the smuggling and murder. A Tempean production directed by John Gilling produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman responsible for the TV adventure series The Saint.
Two selected episodes from the smash series The Saint. The episodes are: The Contract The Queen's Ransom
Six classic British movies from directors including Alfred Hitchcock and Terence Fisher. Murder: A stage actress is convicted of murdering a female friend. An eary classic from the master of suspense.SKIN GAME-A tale of bitter class warfare in an English village. Young & Innocent: A case of mistaken identity sets off a chase through the Cornish countryside to catch a killer. Rich & Strange: Fred and Emily believe that their lives would be enriched if they were more financially well off. After writing to a relative to obtain an inheritance in advance the couple soon embark upon a life that they could previously only dream of but will riches bring them happiness? Sherlock Holmes - The Deadly Necklace: Legendary Baker Street sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) takes on the evil Moriarty again when the mad doctor goes after a priceless necklace which once belonged to Cleopatra. Under Capricorn: In 1831 Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.
Billie and Kristy lead a gang of armed robbers who steal from banks armoured cars and the like. When Billie's lover Jim gets caught by the police after stashing a large amount of money they wait for him to get out of jail. He does and has to deal with both the police and his ex-gang as they both need him to get what they want. Things become more complicated when Kristy kidnaps Jim's son and threatens to kill him if Jim doesn't come up with the buried loot.
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