A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
A Free Cinema short documenting a night at the Wood Green Jazz Club, observing youth culture, music, and social dynamics through an unobtrusive, non-narrated style.
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
A German Film Award commended short documentary on acclaimed Swiss-German porcelain artist Franz Anton Bustelli.
Baron Siebenzell employs the young forest ranger Thomas Sebald, to stop the bold poachers he's plagued with in his beautiful mountain forests. Most of the men in the village reject and ridicule Thomas because of his job. Nevertheless he falls in love with the mayor's daughter Maria - not knowing, that her father is the poacher's leader.
A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a murder he did not commit.
This ultra-kitsch documentary goes behind the scenes at Murray's Cabaret Club, where Christine Keeler was later a showgirl.
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
The artistic and spiritual vision of William Blake as expressed through his books and illustrations.
A man falls in love with Lina , a hot girl with a racy past who creates a sensation among the workers.
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in the village of Montigny. And instead of bathing in ecstasy as expected, Jacques and Gisèle become unwillingly entangled in the conflict that tears the villagers apart : should they continue to tolerate the presence of an American Army unit on municipal territory ?
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the land neighboring this forest. He refuses the transaction and multiplies the obstacles against the forest exploitation project to which Thérèse resigns herself given Pascal's attitude.
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast investment campaign, with the help of a few friends, to benefit the French people. A rival group, led by Serge Colonna and Dominique Ardan, tried to buy the land from him, because according to an expert, there was no oil to exploit. But the expert had lied, and Colonna had just signed the purchase contract. Eddie, with the help of Dominique, whom he has seduced in the meantime, snatches the famous paper from Colonna's hands. The oil can flow.
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Divorce lawyer Dr. Winifred Lert tries to convince her daughter Susi of the futility of marriage. But Susi has long since married herself. Susi also wants to use trickery to bring her parents back together.
Ann, a woman who is preparing to attend a concert. As she gets ready, she reflects on her past and the relationships that have shaped her life. The narrative unfolds through a series of flashbacks and introspective moments, revealing tensions within her family and her romantic entanglements. The concert itself becomes a metaphor for resolution and emotional clarity.
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her.
Story of life on board HMS Victorious, Britain's most modern aircraft carrier. Shows various departments of the ship; jets landing on and take-offs from the flight-deck. Scenes in Gibraltar and Malta. Includes the first film credit for Michael Winner, as Associate Producer.
A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess.
The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Film by Silvio Laurenti Rosa.
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
A small Breton port is falling asleep: individual and coastal fishing is dying, as is the case for François, an old sailor close to retirement. The only solution is to form a cooperative to buy a motor trawler. Five young sailors help rebuild the Roches-Douvres lighthouse in order to buy their boat "Le Tourmentin". In Brittany too, cinematographically, it was possible to make the future sing. .
Two rival Berlin revue theaters are vying for their big breakthrough. With top stars like jazz legend Louis Armstrong, the Kessler twins, and Bill Ramsey, they try to outdo and outmaneuver one another.
CALYPSO (1958) was entirely shot on location in the Antilles archipelago with mostly non-professional actors and was released in colour and Cinemascope. It was a kind of follow-up to the previous Italian exotic documentary films from the 1950s and especially to L´ULTIMO PARADISO.
An Austrian singer and an oriental prince who loves singing, fall in love in Vienna, get married and go to his country. She discovers how different the role for women is there, and he fights the old tradition refusing to marry a princess.
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there.
The story of the ship R.F.A. Tidereach on its journey from England to Norfolk Virginia, Boston and New York, featuring deliveries, the hardworking crew and great streets scenes of New York.