Barnacle Bill 1957  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: All at Sea
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Alec Guinness, Percy Herbert, Irene Browne, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham, Victor Maddern, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Eric Pohlmann, Donald Pleasence, Allan Cuthbertson, Richard Wattis, George Rose, Mike Morgan, Harry Locke
Failing at his family's seafaring tradition because of seasickness, Captain William Horatio Ambrose (Alec Guinness) becomes landlocked and opens a seaside hotel and amusement park for sailors as his means to preserve the family's name. The resort is a huge success, but local citizens object to Ambrose's arcade games on the pier and attempt to destroy it. Fortunately for Ambrose, when his sailor friends come to his aid, a slapstick battle ensues, and Ambrose registers the pier as a cruise ship under a foreign flag. Now, his "ship" is no longer under the domain of land authorities, and the fun continues.
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Cone of Silence 1960  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Trouble in the Sky
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders, Andre Morell, Gordon Jackson, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Noel Willman, Delphi Lawrence, Marne Maitland, William Abney, Ballard Berkeley, Charles Lloyd Pack, Anthony Newlands
After Capt. George Gort (Bernard Lee) crash lands his plane in India, he is found guilty of pilot error but is not grounded. His daughter Charlotte (Elizabeth Seal) does not believe her father was responsible for the crash and asks Capt. Hugh Dallas (Michael Craig) to help prove his innocence. Soon after, Capt. Gort is killed in another crash, and Dallas looks for similarities between the two crashes. He suspects that the planes' design is the problem and that the designer, Nigel Pickering (Noel Willman), has been covering up the information that points to poor design. Is he correct, and can he prove it in order to clear Capt. Gort's name?
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The Cruel Sea 1953 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Stanley Baker, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, John Warner, Bruce Seton, Liam Redmond, Moira Lister, Virginia McKenna
This is Nicholas Monsarrat's story about convoys during World War II and the dangers they encountered from both Nazi submarines and the harsh North Atlantic weather.
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The Long Arm 1956  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
aka: The Third Key
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Dorothy Alison, Michael Brooke, John Stratton, Geoffrey Keen, Sam Kydd, Glyn Houston, Richard Leech, Newton Blick, Sydney Tafler, Ralph Truman, Ian Bannen, Peter Burton, George Rose
Dedicated Scotland Yard Superintendent Tom Halliday (Jack Hawkins), along with his young assistant Sergeant Ward (John Stratton), works to solve a string of robberies involving safes, all of which were made by the same manufacturer. The investigation leads to a night watchman (Richard Leech), and Halliday sets the trap that will ensnare the elusive crook and bring an end to the safe crackings.
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A Run for Your Money 1949 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness, Hugh Griffith, Clive Morton, Leslie Perrins, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby, David Davies, Julie Milton, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Dorothy Bramhall, Andrew Leigh, Mackenzie Ward
Welsh coal-mining brothers "Dai" and "Twim" Jones (Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards) win a day in London along with tickets to the England-Wales Rugby match. Upon arrival in the city, they manage to lose their chaperone Whimple (Alec Guinness) as well as each other, which all leads to one day of excitement–including women and booze–and an entertaining movie.
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Scott of the Antarctic 1948 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: John Mills, Derek Bond, James Robertson Justice, Kenneth More, Christopher Lee, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender, Anne Firth, Reginald Beckwith, John Gregson, James McKechnie, Norman Williams
British explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott (John Mills) sets out on an expedition in 1910 to the South Pole. Two years later, he reaches it, but on the way home he and his crew mysteriously die in the cold. A search party finds their remains–along with Scott's diary providing clues to their unsuccessful attempt to make it back to civilization. The fine score composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams later was transmuted to his "Sinfonia Antarctica."
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| 1. Barnacle Bill (1957)
aka: All at Sea
2. Cone of Silence (1960)
aka: Trouble in the Sky
3. The Cruel Sea (1953)
4. The Long Arm (1956)
aka: The Third Key
5. A Run for Your Money (1949)
6. Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
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