The 39 Steps 1959  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda De Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook, Michael Goodliffe, James Hayter, Duncan Lamont, Jameson Clark, Andrew Cruickshank, Leslie Dwyer, Sid James, Betty Henderson, Joan Hickson
This is an entertaining remake of the 1935 Hitchcock classic. Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) inadvertently becomes involved in espionage and murder after attending a vaudeville show with a young nanny (Faith Brook). Violence erupts at the show, and Richard takes the nanny to his home where she is stabbed by an assailant and is killed–but not before telling Richard that he has only two days to stop an espionage plot. And the race against time begins.
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Across the Bridge 1957 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman, Bernard Lee, Bill Nagy, Eric Pohlmann, Faith Brook, Alan Gifford
Based on Graham Greene's novel, this is the story about unscrupulous British businessman Carl Schaffner (Rod Steiger) who flees to Mexico with Scotland Yard fast on his heels.
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Eye of the Needle 1981  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Marquand
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Faith Brook, Ian Bannen, Bill Fraser, Sam Kydd, John Bennett
Based on Ken Follet's World War II spy novel, this spell-binding story of behind-the-scenes events leading to the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy provides good suspense.
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North Sea Hijack 1980 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Assault Force
ffolkes
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, Faith Brook, Lea Brodie, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde, David Wood, Philip O'Brien
Frogman commando James Excaliber ffolkes (Roger Moore) is called upon for service when terrorists seize a Norwegian ship and threaten seizure of Britain's oil rigs.
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The Razor's Edge 1984 PG-13, 129 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Byrum
Cast: Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan, Brian Doyle-Murray, Saeed Jaffrey, Faith Brook, Stephen Davies
W. Somerset Maugham's novel is again brought to the screen in this version of a young veteran (Bill Murray) from World War I searching for some meaning and goodness in his life.
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 To Sir with Love 1966  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Clavell
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Faith Brook, Geoffrey Bayldon, Marianne Stone, Lulu, Edward Burnham, Gareth Robinson
A West Indian schoolteacher (Sidney Poitier) teaches at a tough London high school made up of white students. He gains their respect, and shows them how to survive in the arena of life. 1 User Review
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| | lake 03/11/2009 | | this movie was very good, sad but very good |
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The Weather in the Streets 1983  N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gavin Millar
Cast: Michael York, Lisa Eichhorn, Joanna Lumley, Rosalind Ayres, Faith Brook, Isabel Dean, Sebastian Shaw, Norman Pitt
Olivia (Lisa Eichhorn) falls in love with Rollo (Michael York), a married man. When she gets pregnant, she is faced with hard choices. A very slow, overly-long film with Lisa Eichhorn as the only bright spot.
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| 1. The 39 Steps (1959)
aka: The Thirty-Nine Steps
2. Across the Bridge (1957)
3. Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
4. Eye of the Needle (1981)
5. Jungle Book (1942)
6. North Sea Hijack (1980)
aka: Assault Force
aka: ffolkes
7. The Razor's Edge (1984)
8. To Sir with Love (1966)
9. The Weather in the Streets (1983)
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