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The Browning Version 1951 Andrew Crocker Harris Michael Redgrave is a classics teacher at an English boys school After 18 years of teaching there, today is his last day before moving on to a position at another school The students speculate on why he is leaving, but dont much care since despite bein

Johnny Nobody 1961 When the atheistic ranting of Irish American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so The man, dubbed Johnny Nobody by the pre

Operation Disaster (1950) The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

The Man Inside (1958) An English bookkeeper (Nigel Patrick) who works for a jeweler steals a priceless jewel, and kills a man in the process. He flees to the continent, where he embarks on the life of his dreams...

Underworld Informers (1963) When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies, starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

The League of Gentlemen (1960) Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline

Young Wives Tale (1951) A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men k

The Sound Barrier (1952) Tony successful fighter pilot during World War II marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who also designs airplanes. The movie traces the company's attempt to break the sound barrier, as well as tensions between father and daughter. Lots of footage of early 50s jet

Sapphire (1959) In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. As two detectives start to investigate, and discover her racial origins were much more mixed, public prejudices and those of the officers themsel