 Alfie 1966  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Shirley Anne Field, Jane Asher, Vivien Merchant, Eleanor Bron, Denholm Elliott, Alfie Bass, Graham Stark, Sydney Tafler, Murray Melvin, Harry Locke, Bryan Marshall
A young Cockney, Alfie Elkins (Michael Caine), is an unsurpassed womanizer who flits from one love interest to another. Alfie impregnates his common-law wife Gilda (Julia Foster) and then has an affair with Lily (Vivien Merchant) who also becomes pregnant by Alfie, and he arranges an abortion. All the while, Alfie engages in sexual affairs with others, including wealthy Ruby (Shelley Winters) and young Siddie (Millicent Martin). Even though disillusioned at the end of the film, Alfie is still "flitting." Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress (Merchant), Writing, and Song.
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Angels One Five 1954  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, John Gregson, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq, Veronica Hurst, Harold Goodwin, Norman Pierce, Geoffrey Keen, Harry Locke, Philip Stainton, Vida Hope, Amy Veness
Headquarters control room for RAF pilots during World War II's Battle of Britain, when the "Few" fight off the German Luftwaffe, is the focus of this realistic film about tactical and strategic aspects of war.
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Barnacle Bill 1957 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: All at Sea
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Alec Guinness, Percy Herbert, Irene Browne, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham, Victor Maddern, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Eric Pohlmann, Donald Pleasence, Allan Cuthbertson, Richard Wattis, George Rose, Mike Morgan, Harry Locke
Failing at his family's seafaring tradition because of seasickness, Captain William Horatio Ambrose (Alec Guinness) becomes landlocked and opens a seaside hotel and amusement park for sailors as his means to preserve the family's name. The resort is a huge success, but local citizens object to Ambrose's arcade games on the pier and attempt to destroy it. Fortunately for Ambrose, when his sailor friends come to his aid, a slapstick battle ensues, and Ambrose registers the pier as a cruise ship under a foreign flag. Now, his "ship" is no longer under the domain of land authorities, and the fun continues.
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The Creeping Flesh 1972 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson, Kenneth J. Warren, Duncan Lamont, Harry Locke, Hedger Wallace, Michael Ripper, Catherine Finn, David Bailie, Marianne Stone
Anthropologist Emmanuel Hildern (Peter Cushing) returns from New Guinea with the skeleton of an early human. When placed in water, flesh grows over the bones, and Emmanuel develops a serum from the blood in hopes that it will cure evil. He tries it on his insane daughter, but it has quite the opposite affect. Emmanuel's brother, James (Christopher Lee), steals the skeleton, rain falls on the bones, and an evil being terrorizes the area. A good period piece with two great masters of the genre.
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The Devil-Ship Pirates 1964  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Christopher Lee, Duncan Lamont, Barry Warren, Harry Locke, Andrew Keir, Michael Ripper, Suzan Farmer, Charles Houston, Leonard Fenton, John Cairney, Ernest Clark, Natasha Pyne, Jack Rodney, Philip Latham, Annette Whiteley
Spanish pirate Captain Robeles (Christopher Lee) has been fighting along with the Spanish Armada. After his ship suffers damage, Robeles pulls into a British port in a small village and convinces the residents that Spain won the battle and that Spain now rules them. Robeles proceeds to run the town–until pirate Manuel (Barry Warren) jumps ship and comes to the aid of the townsfolk.
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The Family Way 1966 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills, Marjorie Rhodes, Avril Angers, John Comer, Wilfred Pickles, Barry Foster, Liz Fraser, Andrew Bradford, Thorley Walters, Colin Gordon, Robin Parkinson, Harry Locke
Shy newly-weds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett) encounter more than a few problems living their first few weeks of marriage at the home of Arthur's parents, Ezra and Lucy (John Mills and Marjorie Rhodes). Between interference from friends, neighbors, and family, does this couple have a chance?
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The L-Shaped Room 1963 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage, Emlyn Williams, Patricia Phoenix, Harry Locke, Bernard Lee, Kay Walsh, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Leslie Caron deftly portrays a single, French woman, June, who is pregnant–but not alone. Living in a London boarding house, she intermingles with the other residents as she tries to make sense out of her predicament. Caron received an Oscar nomination.
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Time Bomb 1953 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
aka: Terror on a Train
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Victor Maddern, Harcourt Williams, Sam Kydd, Harold Warrender, Harry Locke, Bill Fraser, John Horsley
A time bomb is hidden on a train, and one man (Glenn Ford) is in the position to locate and try to defuse it before catastrophe strikes.
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| 1. Alfie (1966)
2. Angels One Five (1954)
3. Barnacle Bill (1957)
aka: All at Sea
4. The Creeping Flesh (1972)
5. The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
6. The Family Way (1966)
7. The L-Shaped Room (1963)
8. Time Bomb (1953)
aka: Terror on a Train
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