Berserk! 1968  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Cast: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Judy Geeson, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Keen, Bryan Pringle, Milton Reid, Marianne Stone
Monica Rivers (Joan Crawford) faces financial ruin when a series of murders take place within her circus troupe.
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Craze 1973 R, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Infernal Idol
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Julie Ege, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Trevor Howard, Suzy Kendall, Michael Jayston, Martin Potter, Marianne Stone
Neal Mottram (Jack Palance) is an antique dealer whose hobby of witchcraft turns into a tale of horror when his African idol, Chuku, demands human sacrifices.
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From Beyond the Grave 1973  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
aka: Creatures
Creatures from Beyond the Grave
Tales from Beyond the Grave
Director: Kevin Connor
Cast: Peter Cushing, David Warner, Wendy Alnutt, Rosalind Ayres, Donald Pleasence, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Angela Pleasence, Margaret Leighton, Nyree Dawn Porter, Ian Ogilvy, Lesley-Anne Down, Jack Watson, Tommy Godfrey
The character of an antique shop proprietor (Peter Cushing) carries over into four short stories in this anthology involving cheating customers and how they must answer for their crimes by enduring supernatural fates imposed on them by the shop proprietor.
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Hannie Caulder 1972  R, 85 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp, Strother Martin, Jack Elam, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors, Stephen Boyd
After her husband was brutally murdered and she was raped, Hannie Caulder (Raquel Welch) gets help from bounty hunter Thomas Luther Price (Robert Culp) as she sets out to seek revenge against the murderous Clemens brothers. With the great cast, this could have been better with a good script.
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A Kid for Two Farthings 1955  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore, Brenda De Banzie, Primo Carnera, Sydney Tafler, Sid James, Lou Jacobi, Irene Handl, Danny Green
Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) is a young boy who believes the story told by a tailor (David Kossoff) about captured unicorns granting wishes. Joe buys a goat with only one horn, and when good things start happening to his poor, hard-working neighbors, Joe is convinced that his goat really is a unicorn.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Pauline Stroud, Gladys Henson, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Cole, Diana Dors, Eddie Byrne, Kay Kendall, Renee Houston, Joan Collins, Sid James, Tommy Duggan, Dana Wynter
Waitress Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) enters a national beauty contest and wins money and a movie contract in London. But, Marjorie has no acting talents and ends up performing nude on the stage–until her boyfriend Larry (John McCallum) makes her promise to leave the show business world and settle down in the domestic world with him.
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The Last Page 1952 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Man Bait
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds, Diana Dors, Eleanor Summerfield, Meredith Edwards, Isabel Dean, Harry Fowler, Conrad Phillips
Harman (George Brent) is a London bookstore manager who is being blackmailed, but his secretary, Stella (Marguerite Chapman), comes to his rescue.
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Oliver Twist 1948 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley, Henry Stephenson, Diana Dors, Mary Clare, Henry Edwards, Josephine Stuart, Ralph Truman, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Amy Veness
This is a very good version of Charles Dickens' story about the inhumane world of apprenticeship in 19th-century England. Beginning with his being left at an orphanage as a baby and enduring a hard life at the orphanage, the story then continues to Oliver's (John Howard Davies) escape to the streets. Now, Oliver, under the watchful eye of his tutor, the cruel Fagin (Alec Guinness) becomes a pickpocket on London's streets where more problems follow–until good luck finally shines on Oliver.
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On the Double 1961 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville Shavelson
Cast: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors, Allan Cuthbertson, Jesse White, Gregory Walcott, Rex Evans, Edgar Barrier
Private First Class Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye) impersonates a high-ranking British officer to confuse the Nazis about D-Day plans.
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The Pied Piper 1972 G, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Donovan, John Hurt, Michael Hordern, Jack Wild, Roy Kinnear, Peter Vaughan, Diana Dors, Cathryn Harrison, Keith Buckley, Roger Hammond, Peter Eyre, Hamilton Dyce, Andre Van Gyseghem, John Falconer
This is a chilling version of the Grimm Brothers' story about the mysterious piper (Donovan) who is hired to rid the squalid town of Hamelin of rats in the 14th century. When payment is not made, he leads the children out of town. Despite its 1972 "G" rating, this movie is not for children.
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The Saint's Return 1954 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Saint's Girl Friday
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Jane(2) Carr, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Thomas Gallagher, William(2) Russell, Fred Johnson
Hayward, who was the first Saint in 1938, is back for one last episode, the first one in 11 years. The Saint returns to London and finds his ex-girlfriend murdered. He tracks down the killers as they prepare to strike again.
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The Shop at Sly Corner 1947 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Code of Scotland Yard
Director: George King
Cast: Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Manning Whiley, Kathleen Harrison, Garry Marsh, Kenneth Griffith, Jan Van Loewen, Irene Handl, Johnnie Schofield, Diana Dors, Katie Johnson, Eliot Makeham
Antique dealer Descius Heiss (Oskar Homolka) is hiding the fact that he is an escaped convict. But, his bookkeeper Robert Graham (Derek Farr) has caught on and is blackmailing him. In order to protect his concert violinist daughter Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), whose career would suffer if her father's past was revealed, Descius kills Farr. Later, when Scotland Yard investigates the murder, Descius commits suicide–one more desperate act aimed at protecting Margaret.
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Theater of Blood 1973 R, 104 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Theatre of Blood
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Jack Hawkins, Robert Coote, Robert Morley, Coral Browne, Diana Dors, Michael Hordern
When critics pan his work, actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) murders them using methods based on those used in Shakespeare's plays. Lots of gore and fun.
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There's a Girl in My Soup 1970 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, Diana Dors, Nicola Pagett, Christopher Cazenove, Judy Campbell, John Comer, Gabrielle Drake, Thorley Walters
Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged TV personality who falls for a young woman, Marion (Goldie Hawn), who is in the middle of big marriage problems.
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The Unholy Wife 1957  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Rod Steiger, Diana Dors, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi, Marie Windsor, Arthur Franz, Luis Van Rooten, Joe De Santis
Phyllis Hochen (Diana Dors) has plans to murder her husband, Paul (Rod Steiger), but when she tries to carry out her deadly plot, she murders the wrong man, and Paul becomes the suspect in the crime.
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| 1. Berserk! (1968)
2. Craze (1973)
aka: The Infernal Idol
3. From Beyond the Grave (1973)
aka: Creatures
aka: Creatures from Beyond the Grave
aka: Tales from Beyond the Grave
4. Hannie Caulder (1972)
5. A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
6. Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
7. The Last Page (1952)
aka: Man Bait
8. Oliver Twist (1948)
9. On the Double (1961)
10. The Pied Piper (1972)
11. The Saint's Return (1954)
aka: The Saint's Girl Friday
12. The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
aka: Code of Scotland Yard
13. Theater of Blood (1973)
aka: Theatre of Blood
14. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
15. The Unholy Wife (1957)
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