Another Time, Another Place 1958  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Lana Turner, Glynis Johns, Barry Sullivan, Sean Connery, Terence Longdon, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Julian Somers, Bill Fraser, Martin Stephens
After her love affair with a World War II newsman (Sean Connery) ends in his death, Sara Scott (Lana Turner) goes to his Cornwall home to comfort her lover's widow (Glynis Johns).
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The Barefoot Contessa 1954  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars, Warren Stevens, Franco Interlenghi, Bessie Love, Mari Aldon, Diana Decker, Bill Fraser
Through flashbacks from her graveside, friends (Humphrey Bogart and Edmond O'Brien) tell the story of film star Maria Vargus (Ava Gardner) and her rise and fall. Edmond O'Brien won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.
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The Captain's Paradise 1953 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Cast: Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Charles Goldner, Peter Bull, Bill Fraser, Miles Malleson, Ferdy Mayne, Nicholas Phipps, Sebastian Cabot, Walter Crisham, Roger Delgado, Victor Fairley, Tutte Lemkow, Ambrosine Phillpotts
This film is a comedy about Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) who is the captain of a steamer sailing regularly between Gibraltar and North Africa. He solves the problem of loneliness when away from home by having two wives. Maude (Celia Johnson) lives in Gibraltar, and Nita (Yvonne De Carlo) is in Tangiers. Problems rise to the fore when both women change their minds about the way they want to live, and Henry is left with no wives.
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The Corn Is Green 1979 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser, Patricia Hayes, Anna Massey, Artro Morris, Dorothea Phillips, Toyah Willcox, Huw Richards, Bryn Fon, Dyfan Roberts, Robin John
Katharine Hepburn gives a strong performance as the eccentric spinster teacher in this remake of the 1945 film based on Emlyn Williams' play. The teacher brings education to a South Wales mining town and to a young man who discovers the joy of learning.
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Dead Cert 1974  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Nina Thomas, Julian Glover, Mark Digham, John Bindon, Joseph Batchley, Ian Hogg, Sean Lynch, Geoffrey Bateman, Bill Fraser
After his friend Bill Davidson (Ian Hogg) dies from injuries suffered during a steeplechase accident, Alan York (Scott Antony) investigates the accident and, with the help of Bill's widow (Judi Dench), finds more than a little corruption going on behind the scenes.
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Eye of the Needle 1981 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Marquand
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Faith Brook, Ian Bannen, Bill Fraser, Sam Kydd, John Bennett
Based on Ken Follet's World War II spy novel, this spell-binding story of behind-the-scenes events leading to the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy provides good suspense.
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Little Dorrit 1988 G, 360 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christine Edzard
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Sarah Pickering, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cyril Cusack, Amelda Brown, Paul Rhys, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Morley, Michael Elphick, Max Wall, Patricia Hayes, Luke Duckett, Daniel Chatto, Bill Fraser
Charles Dickens' novel is told in two parts revealing perspectives of both cold businessman Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi) and the innocent Amy Dorrit (Sarah Pickering). Part I is told through the eyes of Clennam who returns home to London after a 20-year absence and becomes interested in William Dorrit (Alec Guinness) who is serving time in debtor's prison. Dorrit's daughter Amy is a seamstress working for Clennam's mother (Joan Greenwood), and Clennam sets out to help the Dorrits reclaim a fortune. In Part II, Amy's side of the story is told as her life crosses that of Clennam. This six-hour film is a well-acted adaptation of Dickens' tale and received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Guinness) and Best Writing.
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 Masquerade 1965  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Operation Masquerade
A Shabby Tiger
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Bill Fraser, Charles Gray, John Le Mesurier, Felix Aylmer, Christopher Witty, Tutte Lemkow, Ernest Clark
This spoof of spy stories, based on the Victor Canning novel "Castle Minerva," has Robertson and Hawkins hired to abduct the young heir to the throne of a Mid-Eastern nation. Clever and pretty well done.
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Pirates 1986 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Walter Matthau, Charlotte Lewis, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, David Kelly, Roy Kinnear, Bill Fraser, Ferdy Mayne, Emilio Fernandez
When pirate Capt. Thomas Bartholomew Red (Walter Matthau) and a French sailor (Cris Campion) are captured by the crew of the Spanish galleon, Red evokes a crew mutiny, and the adventures continue.
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Time Bomb 1953 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
aka: Terror on a Train
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Victor Maddern, Harcourt Williams, Sam Kydd, Harold Warrender, Harry Locke, Bill Fraser, John Horsley
A time bomb is hidden on a train, and one man (Glenn Ford) is in the position to locate and try to defuse it before catastrophe strikes.
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| 1. Another Time, Another Place (1958)
2. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
3. The Captain's Paradise (1953)
4. The Corn Is Green (1979)
5. Dead Cert (1974)
6. Eye of the Needle (1981)
7. Little Dorrit (1988)
8. Masquerade (1965)
aka: Operation Masquerade
aka: A Shabby Tiger
9. Pirates (1986)
10. Time Bomb (1953)
aka: Terror on a Train
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