The Colditz Story 1955  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis, David Yates, Frederick Valk, Denis Shaw, Anton Diffring, Eugene Deckers
During World War II, Germany used "escape proof" Colditz Castle to imprison the Allied officers who tried to escape from conventional camps. This is the true story of Maj. P.R. "Pat" Reid (John Mills) about his successful attempt to escape from Colditz through a subterranean tunnel.
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Dead of Night 1945  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Cast: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Frederick Valk, Sally Ann Howes, Anthony Baird, Basil Radford, Miles Malleson, Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Robert Wyndham, Ralph Michael
Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) has very odd dreams AND they seem to relate to dreams of fellow guests at a British farmhouse. Each of the guests tell their bizarre stories. A classic chiller.
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Hotel Reserve 1944  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Hanbury
Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Julien Mitchell, Martin Miller, Herbert Lom, Patricia Medina, David Ward, Frederick Valk, Laurence Hanray
A suspect Nazi spy is caught between Nazis and Nazi hunters at the Hotel Reserve on the Riviera.
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Never Let Me Go 1953 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn, Belita, Kenneth More, Theodore Bikel, Karel Stepanek, Frederick Valk, Anton Diffring
This Cold-War story is about an American reporter, Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable), stationed in Moscow who falls in love with a Russian ballerina, Marva Lamarkins (Gene Tierney). Problems become overwhelming when Sutherland is ordered out of Russia, and his new wife is not allowed to leave with him.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers 1948 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Saraband
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Francoise Rosay, Frederick Valk, Peter Bull, Anthony Quayle, Megs Jenkins, Michael Gough, Jill Balcon, Cecil Trouncer, David Horne, Miles Malleson, Allan Jeayes, Guy Rolfe
Based on historic fact, this film tells the story of the ill-fated marriage of Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), who would later become King George I, and Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood). Sophie fell in love with the dashing Count Philip Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) and made plans to flee the scene. But when their affair was discovered, the Count was assassinated, and Sophie was imprisoned in an isolated castle.
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Thunder Rock 1942 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Finlay Currie, Frederick Valk, Barry Morse, Miles Malleson, A.E. Matthews, Andreas Malandrinos
Based on Robert Ardrey's play, this is the story of a war correspondent who "retires" to a lighthouse where the immigrants from ships which had sunk near the lighthouse a century before haunt him, and through their stories, his faith in mankind is renewed.
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| 1. The Colditz Story (1955)
2. Dead of Night (1945)
3. Hotel Reserve (1944)
4. Never Let Me Go (1953)
5. Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
aka: Saraband
6. Thunder Rock (1942)
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