10 Rillingham Place 1971  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Andre Morell, Robert Hardy, Basil Dignam, Sam Kydd, Bernard Lee
Excellent performances highlight this tension-filled drama about a necrophiliac, John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough), whose next intended victims–Beryl Evans (Judy Geeson) and her husband Timothy (John Hurt)–live in the upstairs apartment.
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man in a Cocked Hat
Director: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Cast: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Thorley Walters, Ian Bannen, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Kynaston Reeves, Marne Maitland, Marie Lohr, Ronald Adam, Basil Dignam, Irene Handl, John Van Eyssen
Incompetent British diplomat Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas) is placed in charge of a British protectorate in this satire on a cog in the British colonial system. The purpose of Carlton-Browne's assignment is to prevent foreign powers from taking a rich mineral deposit that has been discovered on the island of Gaillardia. World powers do appear on the scene, and, when matters spin out of control with young King Loris (Ian Bannen) as ruler, the Prime Minister of the island, Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), undermines him and leads a revolution to overthrow the British.
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Suspect 1960 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Risk
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Cast: Tony Britton, Peter Cushing, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Thorley Walters, Donald Pleasence, Spike Milligan, Kenneth Griffith, Basil Dignam
Scientists working under Professor Sewell (Peter Cushing) discover a means to wipe out typhus and bubonic plague. The government classifies the work since it could, perhaps, be used by the enemy for germ warfare. One of the team is frustrated with that decision and makes a deal with the wrong people.
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Up the Creek 1958  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Val Guest
Cast: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Vera Day, Michael Goodliffe, Lionel Jeffries, Frank Pettingell, Reginald Beckwith, Sam Kydd, Lionel Murton, Tom Gill, John Warren, Donald Bisset, Peter Coke, Basil Dignam
Humor in United States Navy protocol is the subject of this slapstick film.
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| 1. 10 Rillingham Place (1971)
2. Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
aka: Man in a Cocked Hat
3. Suspect (1960)
aka: The Risk
4. Up the Creek (1958)
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