I'll Never Forget You 1951  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
aka: The House in the Square
Man of Two Worlds
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, Raymond Huntley, Irene Browne, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Denton, Robert Atkins, Peter Drury
American nuclear physicist Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) is working in England and living in an 18th-century mansion he inherited from an ancestor. One rainy evening, Peter is strolling in the neighborhood when he is hit by lightening. He awakens transported back into the 18th century and is now his own ancestor. While "living" in the past, he meets and falls in love with his cousin Helen (Ann Blyth) and uses his scientific knowledge to help improve 18th-century living conditions. Another thunderstorm shoots Peter back to the 20th century, and he learns from old, family documents that Helen had died before ever marrying. Now his friend Roger (Michael Rennie) introduces him to his sister Martha (also played by Ann Blyth) who looks just like Helen, and Peter and Martha instantly fall in love. This film begins in black and white, and then switches to color when Peter awakens in the 18th century.
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Last Holiday 1950 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Henry Cass
Cast: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Gregoire Aslan, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernest Thesiger, Helen Cherry, Brian Worth, Sid James, Jean Colin, Muriel George, Esma Cannon, Campbell Cotts, Moultrie Kelsall
Salesman George Bird (Alec Guinness) has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and has been told that he has less than one month to live. George decides on one last fling–pretending to be a wealthy man and spending all of his money. He buys new clothes and rents a room at an exclusive inn. He meets new business prospects at the inn and, because he now does not mind taking risks, doors are opening in his world as a salesman. Then, George learns that his diagnosis is wrong, and that he is no longer in danger of dying in less than a month. How will George handle the news?
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Laughter in Paradise 1951  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mario Zampi
Cast: Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton, Fay Compton, George Cole, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, John Laurie, Beatrice Campbell, Anthony Steel, Audrey Hepburn
Four relatives share a fortune–if they perform the actions designated in a very strange will left by a practical joker. That cigarette girl is Audrey Hepburn in her film debut.
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The Master of Ballantrae 1953 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer, Mervyn Johns, Charles Goldner, Ralph Truman, Francis De Wolff
This film is based (loosely) on Robert Louis Stevenson's story of the Scottish rebellion. Errol Flynn fights against the British monarchy–and his own brother (Anthony Steel) for the woman he loves.
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The Mudlark 1950 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray, Finlay Currie, Beatrice Campbell, Anthony Steel, Constance Smith, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Raymond Lovell, Marjorie Fielding
An orphan, "Wheeler the Mudlark" (Andrew Ray), sneaks into Windsor Castle and becomes the friend of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne) who has led a life of seclusion since her husband, Prince Albert, died.
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| 1. I'll Never Forget You (1951)
aka: The House in the Square
aka: Man of Two Worlds
2. Last Holiday (1950)
3. Laughter in Paradise (1951)
4. The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
5. The Mudlark (1950)
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