The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders 1965  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, Claire Ufland, Liam Redmond, Mary Merrall
An 18th-century woman, Moll Flanders (Kim Novak), looks for love in all the wrong places, which leads to more than one sexual exploit.
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The Brain 1962  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Vengeance
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Peter van Eyck, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Maxine Audley, Ellen Schwiers, Jeremy Spenser, Siegfried Lowitz, Hans Nielsen, Miles Malleson, Jack MacGowran, George A. Cooper
After a bomb explodes on a rich financier's plane, Dr. Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck) notes that the dead man's brain is still alive, and he removes it. As the brain gains power, it takes charge of Peter's mind and orders Peter to find the killer. This is the third–and weakest– film based on Curt Siodmak's novel. The previous films were "The Lady and the Monster" (1944) and "Donovan's Brain" (1953).
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Caesar and Cleopatra 1945  N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Anthony Harvey, Francis L. Sullivan, Flora Robson, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Leo Genn, Jean Simmons, Basil Sydney, Raymond Lovell, Anthony Eustrel, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Rennie
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play, this is the story of Julius Caesar (Claude Rains) and the help he gives Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) to attain her goal of ruling Egypt. They meet under the Sphinx in Egypt, and Caesar teaches Cleopatra about politics and how to behave like a queen. But, despite Caesar's attentions, Cleopatra yearns for Marc Antony who is far away in Rome.
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Circus of Fear 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Psycho-Circus
Circus of Terror
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey, Werner Jacobs
Cast: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent, Margaret Lee, Victor Maddern, Maurice Kaufmann, Cecil Parker, Skip Martin
Murders in a traveling circus bring Scotland Yard detectives in to find the killer as well as uncover money stolen in a robbery. There are plenty of suspects in this fair suspense film.
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The Court Jester 1956   N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Cast: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Parker, Edward Ashley, Robert Middleton, John Carradine, Alan Napier, Michael Pate, Herbert Rudley, Lewis Martin, Patrick Aherne
Danny Kaye is at his best as the medieval court jester who tries to restore the rightful king to his throne. 1 User Review
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Dark Journey 1937  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Robert Newton, William Dewhurst, Cecil Parker, Austin Trevor, Eliot Makeham
A meeting between spies–Von Marwitz (Conrad Veidt) and Madeleine (Vivien Leigh)–in Stockholm accelerates into a love affair, which complicates matters.
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Father Brown 1954 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Detective
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Sid James, Ernest Thesiger, Gerard Oury, Ernest Clark, Austin Trevor
Father Brown (Alec Guinness) refuses the aid of Scotland Yard and takes charge of the delivery of a priceless cross.
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Guns at Batasi 1964 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker, Errol John, Graham Stark, Earl Cameron, Percy Herbert, David Lodge, John Meillon, Patrick Holt
British Army Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Richard Attenborough) is stationed in a newly independent East African colony and strives to keep peace when an African officer, Lt. Boniface (Errol John), opposes the British sanctioned government.
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Heavens Above! 1963 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael, Bernard Miles, Brock Peters, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Miles Malleson, Joan Miller, Roy Kinnear
The Reverend John Smallwood (Peter Sellers), a prison chaplain, is mistakenly appointed pastor of a rich church in an upper-crust English village. While the "rightful" pastor (Ian Carmichael) would have catered to the well-off parishioners, John Smallwood brings his progressive views to the job, often shocking his staid church membership.
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Indiscreet 1958 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs Jenkins, Oliver Johnston, Richard Vernon, Martin Boddey, John Welsh, Michael Anthony, Diane Clare
A successful actress (Ingrid Bergman) wants love and marriage, while a successful businessman (Cary Grant) wants love but no marriage. The two meet in London, and humor and intrigue are the result.
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Lady L 1965 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Ustinov
Cast: Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Cecil Parker, Marcel Dalio, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Peter Ustinov, Daniel Emilfork
This film doesn't take advantage of the talent, but it does have some good moments. Lady L (Sophia Loren) tells her story to her biographer.
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The Lady Vanishes 1938 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty, Paul Lukas, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Mary Clare, Basil Radford, Googie Withers, Naunton Wayne
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films. It has it all–comedy and suspense aboard a train traveling through Germany. And, as suggested by the title, an old woman disappears. The search for this "lady" reveals that she is not who she appears to be.
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 The Ladykillers 1955 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson, Jack Warner, Philip Stainton, Fred Griffiths, Sam Kydd, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Edie Martin, Ewan Roberts, Harold Goodwin
Marcus (Alec Guinness) is the leader of an inept gang of thieves planning a robbery. The gang rents apartments in elderly Mrs. Wilberforce's (Katie Johnson) London house and tells Mrs. Wilberforce that they are musicians. The ploy does not work, and when she learns the truth about them the gang decides to kill her. Bad idea–and they are thwarted by the doddering Mrs. Wilberforce.
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The Man in the White Suit 1951 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Vida Hope, Ernest Thesiger, Howard Marion-Crawford, Duncan Lamont, Miles Malleson, Harold Goodwin, Henry Mollison, Patric Doohan, Colin Gordon, Arthur Howard
When Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) invents a textile, which will not get dirty or wear out, the world beats a path to his door–to prevent him from producing his new cloth! Textile workers and owners of mills see their livelihoods in jeopardy.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind 1936 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Man Who Lived Again
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Boris Karloff, John Loder, Anna Lee, Frank Cellier, Cecil Parker, Donald Calthrop, Clive Morton, D.J. Williams, Lyn Harding, Brian Pawley
A bizarre professor, Doctor Laurence (Boris Karloff), experiments in brain transplants.
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On the Fiddle 1961 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Operation Warhead
Operation Snafu
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, John Le Mesurier, Jack Lambert, Bill Owen
In spite of their ineptness as Royal Air Force recruits, Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch) and Pedlar Pascoe (Sean Connery) become military heroes.
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Quartet 1949 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Smart, Harold French, Arthur Crabtree, Ken Annakin
Cast: Basil Radford, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Susan Shaw, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker
Four of W. Somerset Maugham's stories are presented in this film, with each being introduced by the author. The stories are: "The Facts of Life," "Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady." All are excellent, and due to the success of this omnibus, three others were produced the following year in "Trio."
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The Saint's Vacation 1941 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Leslie Fenton
Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae, Cecil Parker, Leueen MacGrath, Gordon McLeod, John Warwick, Ivor Barnard, Manning Whiley, Felix Aylmer
Hugh Sinclair takes on the role of the Saint, and Leslie Charteris, the author of the original Saint novels, co-writes this not-bad entry. The Saint and his buddy Monty Hayward (Arthur Macrae) are on vacation in Switzerland when they get involved with a music box containing a secret code. Murder and international intrigue follow as the suave Saint gets on the trail.
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Ships with Wings 1942 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Cast: John Clements, Leslie Banks, Jane Baxter, Ann Todd, Basil Sydney, Edward Chapman, Hugh Williams, Frank Pettingell, Michael Wilding, Michael Rennie, Cecil Parker, John Stuart, Morland Graham, Charles Victor, Hugh Burden
During World War II, R.A.F. pilot Lt. Dick Stacey (John Clements) has fallen in love with Celia (Jane Baxter) who is the daughter of Adm. Wetherby (Leslie Banks). Stacey takes a plane without permission and crashes it leaving Celia's brother Lt. Wetherby (Hugh Burden) dead. His romance with Celia ends. After his court-martial, Stacey serves aboard the H.M.S. Ark Royal–the ship with wings–where he becomes a mercenary charter pilot in the Mediterranean. Stacey regains his patriotism when he goes on a suicide mission, crashes his plane into a German dam site, and floods a German post. He has redeemed himself and dies a hero.
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Storm in a Teacup 1937 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans, Gus McNaughton, Eliot Makeham, Ivor Barnard, Cyril Smith, Edgar K. Bruce
When reporter Frank Burdon (Rex Harrison) takes on the cause of Mrs. Hegarty (Sara Allgood) who refuses to pay for a dog license, the result is mayhem.
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A Study in Terror 1965 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
aka: Fog
Director: James Hill
Cast: John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley, Adrienne Corri, Frank Finlay, Judi Dench, Cecil Parker, Barbara Windsor, Georgia Brown, Barry Jones, Kay Walsh, Edina Ronay, Terry Downes
Sherlock Holmes (John Neville), his companion Dr. Watson (Donald Houston), and Holmes' brother Mycroft (Robert Morley) are on the trail of Jack the Ripper. Using his superb deductive powers, Holmes' reasoning leads him to the fact that all of the victims are prostitutes. Now, it is just a matter of time before the crazed killer is stopped in his tracks.
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Swiss Family Robinson 1960 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Cecil Parker, Milton Reid, Larry Taylor
This is the Disney version of the story based on Johann Wyss' tale of a family, shipwrecked on a South Seas island, that learns how to survive away from civilization. A robust, fun adventure.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1958 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler, Ian Bannen, Alfie Bass, Ernest Clark, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence
This film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel stars Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton, the Englishman who adapts to determined Parisians' ideals during the French Revolution but,by story's end, gives his life for the woman he loves.
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Under Capricorn 1949 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Denis O'Dea, Jack Watling, Harcourt Williams, Francis De Wolff, Ronald Adam
The Huskys, a 19th-century family, live in Australia. Honorable Charles Adare (Michael Wilding) becomes attracted to Lady Henrietta Husky (Ingrid Bergman) and begins to unravel a family secret. Not one of Hitchcock's best.
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Under Ten Flags 1960 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Duilio Coletti
Cast: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylene Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker, Alex Nicol, Liam Redmond, Gregoire Aslan, Gian Maria Volonte, Ralph Truman
Told from the German perspective, this World War II story involves Captain Reger's attempts to evade allied war ships as he commands his German ship in a cat and mouse game of Axis powers vs. Allies.
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare 1959 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker, Alexander Knox, Virginia McKenna, Richard Harris, Ben Wright, Peter Illing
A salvage-boat captain, John Sands (Charlton Heston), testifies in the trial of Captain Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper) whose name is then cleared in the sinking of his ship, the Mary Deare.
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| 1. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
2. The Brain (1962)
aka: Vengeance
3. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
4. Circus of Fear (1966)
aka: Psycho-Circus
aka: Circus of Terror
5. The Court Jester (1956)
6. Dark Journey (1937)
7. Father Brown (1954)
aka: The Detective
8. Guns at Batasi (1964)
9. Heavens Above! (1963)
10. Indiscreet (1958)
11. Lady L (1965)
12. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
13. The Ladykillers (1955)
14. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
15. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
aka: The Man Who Lived Again
16. On the Fiddle (1961)
aka: Operation Warhead
aka: Operation Snafu
17. Quartet (1949)
18. The Saint's Vacation (1941)
19. Ships with Wings (1942)
20. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
21. A Study in Terror (1965)
aka: Fog
22. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
23. A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
24. Under Capricorn (1949)
25. Under Ten Flags (1960)
26. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
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