The 3 Worlds of Gulliver 1960  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jack Sher
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson, Gregoire Aslan, Basil Sydney, Charles Lloyd Pack, Martin Benson, Mary Ellis, Peter Bull
This version of the Jonathan Swift classic tale is entertaining, as the shipwrecked Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) ends up in the small, small world of the Lilliputians followed by visiting the land of Brobdignag, home of the giants. Most of Swift's biting satire is missing, though some is retained. The young ones should like it.
|  | |
Bedazzled 1967  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Alba, Robert Russell, Barry Humphries, Daniele Noel, Michael Bates, Charles Lloyd Pack
A short-order cook, Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore), sells his soul to George Spiggott (Peter Cook), a.k.a. the Devil, in return for seven sinful wishes in this modern-day version of "Dr. Faust."
| | |
A Circle of Deception 1961  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Lee
Cast: Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews, Paul Rogers, Robert Stephens, John Welsh, Walter Gotell, Charles Lloyd Pack, Richard Marner, Martin Boddey
In this psychological drama, an allied officer, Paul Raine (Bradford Dillman), is set up as a decoy to confuse the Nazis with false information about D-Day plans.
| | |
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?
| | |
Corridors of Blood 1958 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Francis Matthews, Adrienne Corri, Francis De Wolff, Frank Pettingell, Charles Lloyd Pack
A doctor (Boris Karloff), addicted to drugs, resorts to grave robbing to satisfy his needs.
| | |
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 1974 TV, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Lee, John Stratton, Michael Ward, Elsie Wagstaff, Norman Mitchell, Clifford Mollison, Philip Voss, Charles Lloyd Pack, Lucy Griffiths, Christopher Cunningham
Dr. Frankenstein is presumed dead, but he is using the assumed name of Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing) and is in charge of an insane asylum. With help from his crazed assistant, Dr. Simon Helder (Shane Briant), he creates a new "monster" (Dave Prowse) from body parts of the asylum's criminal patients–and the gore continues. This film is Terence Fisher's final entry in his series of Frankenstein stories.
| | |
 Horror of Dracula 1958 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, John Van Eyssen, Miles Malleson, Charles Lloyd Pack, Valerie Gaunt, George Merritt
This is Christopher Lee's first performance as Count Dracula in what would lead to a series of Dracula films. In this rendition of Bram Stoker's tale, Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing)–the nemesis of Count Dracula–is determined to uncover the truth.
| | |
If... 1968 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster, Peter Jeffrey, Mona Washbourne, Arthur Lowe, Graham Crowden, Charles Lloyd Pack
This excellent drama/black comedy takes a student revolt to extremes and, in the process, reveals how their actions parallel those of the world of adults. It is often violent as the students rebel against the "establishment."
| | |
The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Michael Ripper, Ronald Adam, Gerda Larsen, Middleton Woods, Denis Shaw, Ian Hewitson, Frederick Rawlings, Charles Lloyd Pack, Marie Burke
In this remake of "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1944), Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) uses transplant surgeries involving the removal of a gland from living victims who die during the surgery. The surgeries have stopped Georges' aging, and, although he is 104-years old, he appears to others as a 35-year-old man. Now, his obsession with Janine (Hazel Court) who has fallen for his aide Dr. Pierre Gerrard (Christopher Lee) will lead to Georges' ultimate undoing.
| | |
The Mirror Crack'd 1980 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, Nigel Stock, Pierce Brosnan, Margaret Courtenay, Charles Lloyd Pack, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan, Marella Oppenheim, Maureen Bennett
In this Agatha Christie mystery, an American movie company is making a film in an old English village. One of the actresses, Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor), had suffered a mental breakdown but is now trying to make a comeback. Unfortunately, she is still plagued by her past and has been receiving death threats. When a pair of murders takes place, Scotland Yard Inspector Craddock (Edward Fox), arrives on the scene with his aunt, Miss Marple (Angela Lansbury), to investigate. Everyone thinks that Marina was the intended victim, but Miss Marple and Craddock look into others involved with the movie set including Marina's husband who is the film's director Jason Rudd (Rock Hudson). Also on the list of suspects are film producer Marty Fenn and his wife Lola Brewster (Tony Curtis and Kim Novak). Determination pays off as Craddock and Miss Marple finally uncover the evidence that identifies the guilty party.
| | |
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire 1952  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: My Son, the Vampire
Vampire over London
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Dora Bryan, Richard Wattis, Judith Furse, Philip Leaver, Maria Mercedes, Roderick Lovell, David Hurst, Charles Lloyd Pack
This is the last in the long-running UK series of Old Mother Riley tales, all of which starred Arthur Lucan in drag as the Irish scrub woman, Mother Riley. Mother Riley is always getting herself in all sorts of tough spots, and this time she comes across mad scientist Baron Von Housen (Bela Lugosi) who is in search of uranium to fuel his monster robot so he can rule the world.
| | |
Quatermass II 1957 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Enemy from Space
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, William Franklyn, Charles Lloyd Pack, Percy Herbert, John Van Eyssen, Michael Ripper
Aliens invade and take over human bodies in this "Quatermass" episode featuring Brian Donlevy in the role of the gruff Dr. Quatermass.
| | |
The Reptile 1966 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce, Michael Ripper, John Laurie, Marne Maitland, Harold Goldblatt, Charles Lloyd Pack, Harold Pinter
Mysterious deaths occur in an English village, and a naive young couple, Valerie (Jennifer Daniel) and Harry (Ray Barrett) Spalding, seem to be right in the middle of the action.
| | |
Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, John Welsh, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Lloyd Pack, Michael Ripper, John Stuart, Arnold Diamond, Oscar Quitak, Richard Wordsworth, Marjorie Gresley, Anna Walmsley, George Woodbridge
Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) takes on the new identity of "Dr. Victor Stein" and is up to his old tricks of transplanting body parts into a monster. This is a sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein" and is followed by "The Evil of Frankenstein."
| | |
The Shuttered Room 1967 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Blood Island
Director: David Greene
Cast: Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed, Flora Robson, William Devlin, Bernard Kay, Charles Lloyd Pack, Judith Arthy, Robert Cawdron, Celia Hewitt
A married couple (Gig Young and Carol Lynley) arrives in New England to move into the wife's inherited millhouse. One problem exists with the house: Ethan (Oliver Reed) is crazy and is locked in the attic.
| | |
The Third Secret 1964 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Paul Rogers, Alan Webb, Rachel Kempson, Peter Sallis, Patience Collier, Freda Jackson, Judi Dench, Peter Copley, Nigel Davenport, Charles Lloyd Pack
TV commentator Alex Stedman (Stephen Boyd) conducts a private investigation into the case of the supposed suicide of a famous London psychiatrist. Stedman had been one of the deceased's patients and doubts that the death was a suicide. The dead man's daughter, Catherine (Pamela Franklin), also believes that it was not a suicide and gives Stedman a list of her father's patients. While interviewing the patients (Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, and Diane Cilento), Stedman learns that all three had secrets in their lives. Then, Stedman comes across another patient–Catherine–who finally confesses that she killed her father to prevent being sent to an institution.
| | |
| 1. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
2. Bedazzled (1967)
3. A Circle of Deception (1961)
4. Cone of Silence (1960)
aka: Trouble in the Sky
5. Corridors of Blood (1958)
6. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
7. Horror of Dracula (1958)
8. If... (1968)
9. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
10. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
11. Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
aka: My Son, the Vampire
aka: Vampire over London
12. Quatermass II (1957)
aka: Enemy from Space
13. The Reptile (1966)
14. Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
15. The Shuttered Room (1967)
aka: Blood Island
16. The Third Secret (1964)
In The News
|
