The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
A film interpretation of the poem ‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.
Back to School
In a small village in Provence, on the first day of school, a young boy throws his bag into the river on a bet, and the retrieval of it leads…
A Time to Kill
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist…
Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director,…
The Phantom Horse
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy’s family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
The Time of His Life
Mr Pastry’s social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives…
Man On A Bus
Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass…
The Wicked Go to Hell
Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all…
Beautiful Days
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
Scandal in Sorrento
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Cast a Dark Shadow
Edward “Teddy” Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he’s hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don’t go…
Wiretapper
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for…
Storm Fear
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother’s home.
Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against…
The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and is found to contain…
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor…
Man in Space
With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.
Magic Fire
Director William Dieterle’s 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
The Last Frontier
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Kentucky Rifle
A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians…
Fun at St. Fanny’s
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny’s School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is…
Day the World Ended
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist…
The Cockleshell Heroes
During WW2, German ships are “safely” docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
The Beast with a Million Eyes
An alien space craft lands in the desert. The alien takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through them. The…
You’re Never Too Young
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child – with humorous consequences.
You Lucky People
Reservist Tommy Smart – who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus – arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two weeks’ training. Bank manager…
Wyoming Renegades
Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them….
White Feather
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief’s…
Women’s Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women’s prison.
Dial 999
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for…