Pool of London
"A drama of the river underworld"
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
"A drama of the river underworld"
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Bonar Colleano
Dan MacDonald
Susan Shaw
Pat
Renée Asherson
Sally
Earl Cameron
Johnny Lambert
Moira Lister
Maisie
Max Adrian
Charlie Vernon - acrobat / George
Joan Dowling
Pamela, Maisie's sister
James Robertson Justice
Engine Room Officer Trotter
Leslie Phillips
Harry
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.