Bees in Paradise 1944  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Max Bacon, Antoinette Cellier, Joy Shelton, Beatrice Varley
Four men (Arthur Askey, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, and Max Bacon) bail out of their plane over Paradise Island and land in a bee-worshipping colony of women who cater to them. All four marry and then learn the reason that explains why there are no men on the island. According to colonial tradition, all males must commit suicide after their honeymoons. Is it too late, or is there an escape?
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The Browning Version 1951  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brian Smith, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard, Peter Jones, Judith Furse
In this first (of two, so far) film based on Terence Rattigan's 1948 play, Michael Redgrave is great as the schoolteacher who has many failings and has an unfaithful wife, to boot.
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Fanny by Gaslight 1944 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Man of Evil
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Helen Haye, Margaretta Scott, Nora Swinburne, Cathleen Nesbitt, John Laurie
Hard-drinking Lord Manderstoke (James Mason) falls for Fanny (Phyllis Calvert), and the influence he exerts threatens her chance for a happy life.
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Shout at the Devil 1976  PG, 128 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Cast: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, George Coulouris, Maurice Denham, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Horst Janson, Karl Michael Vogler, Jean Kent, Reinahard Kolldehoff, Gernot Endemann, Heather Wright, Gerard Paquis, Murray Melvin
During World War I, an American, Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), and a British "gentleman," Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore), join forces in an attempt to blow up a German battleship being repaired off Zanzibar while they are searching for fortune in Africa. Lots of action.
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| 1. Bees in Paradise (1944)
2. The Browning Version (1951)
3. Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
aka: Man of Evil
4. Grip of the Strangler (1958)
aka: The Haunted Strangler
5. Shout at the Devil (1976)
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