Circle of Danger 1951  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair, Naunton Wayne, Marjorie Fielding, Edward Rigby, Colin Gordon, Dora Bryan, David Hutcheson
Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) investigates his brother's untimely death in World War II and becomes involved in international intrigue.
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The Green Man 1957  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Day, Basil Dearden
Cast: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Avril Angers, Raymond Huntley, Colin Gordon, Eileen Moore, Dora Bryan, John Chandos, Cyril Chamberlain, Richard Wattis, Vivien Wood, Marie Burke
In his spare time, watchmaker Hawkins (Alastair Sim) is a professional assassin. He is hired to kill Sir Gregory Upshoot (Raymond Huntley) and tracks him to the run-down seaside Green Man hotel, but vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole) catches on to Hawkins' plot and is determined to save Sir Gregory.
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MirrorMask 2005 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Dave McKean
Cast: Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Dora Bryan, Robert Llewellyn, Andy Hamilton, Fiona Reynard, Nik Robson
Fifteen-year-old Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) has an argument with her mother (Gina McKee) who then faints and is put in a hospital. Helena suffers guilt over the incident and slips into another world, known as the Dark Lands where she is mistaken for the missing daughter (also played by Leonidas) of the Queen (also played by McKee). As Helena tries to get back to reality, she thinks the Queen's daughter has replaced her at home. The answer lies in the magic talisman, which Helena finds to put everyone in their correct worlds.
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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.
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| 1. Apartment Zero (1988)
2. Circle of Danger (1951)
3. The Green Man (1957)
4. MirrorMask (2005)
5. Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
aka: My Son, the Vampire
aka: Vampire over London
6. Whispering Smith Hits London (1951)
aka: Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard
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