The Brain Machine 1956  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Maxwell Reed, Elizabeth Allan, Patrick Barr, Russell Napier, Gibb McLaughlin, Edwin Richfield, Neil Hallett, Mark Bellamy, Bill Nagy, Vanda Godsell, John Horsley, Thomas Gallagher
While searching for kidnapped Dr. Phillipa Roberts (Elizabeth Allan), police uncover a gang of drug smugglers.
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Casino Royale 1967 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Daliah Lavi, John Huston, George Raft, Joanna Pettet, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Peter O'Toole
Special Agent 007 James Bond (David Niven) is enjoying retirement when he is coaxed back into the Secret Service after M is slain. Bond's mission is to smash the spy organization SMERSH, which is headed by the evil Le Chiffre (Orson Welles), and to accomplish that goal, agents converge on Casino Royale. Burt Bacharach provided the good musical score. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ("The Look of Love").
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 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968  G, 144 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Frobe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Davy Kaye, Heather Ripley, Adrian Hall, Barbara Windsor
In this children's fantasy, based on a story by Ian Fleming, Professor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) invents a flying car and then discovers that foreign powers are out to get their hands on his invention. The title song was nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar.
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Cromwell 1970 G, 139 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray
Realistic battle scenes highlight this biography of the 16th-century take-over by Puritan leader, Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris), who deposed England's Charles I (Alec Guinness).
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Drop Dead Darling 1966  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Arrivederci, Baby
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Mischa Auer, Anna Quayle, Warren Mitchell, Noel Purcell, Jacqueline Bisset
After years of carrying out murders of women for his own financial gain, Nick Johnson (Tony Curtis) meets his match.
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Of Human Bondage 1964  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna, Nanette Newman, Roger Livesey, Jack Hedley, Ronald Lacey, John Sutton
This is another good adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. The young medical student is played well by Laurence Harvey, and Kim Novak takes on role of the promiscuous waitress with whom he is obsessed.
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Sextette 1978  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Regis Philbin, Walter Pidgeon, George Raft, Alice Cooper
When a former sex goddess, Marlo Manners (Mae West–in her 80s), marries a young nobleman, Sir Michael Barrington (Timothy Dalton), their wedding night is interrupted by her former husbands. Not a bomb only because it IS Mae West.
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1960 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Man with the Green Carnation
The Green Carnation
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries, John Fraser, Maxine Audley, Ian Fleming, Laurence Naismith, James Booth
The famed libel trial of 19th-century playwright Oscar Wilde (Peter Finch) that resulted in his imprisonment is depicted in this film, which was released at the same time as "Oscar Wilde" starring Robert Morley in the title role.
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| 1. The Brain Machine (1956)
2. Casino Royale (1967)
3. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
4. Cromwell (1970)
5. Drop Dead Darling (1966)
aka: Arrivederci, Baby
6. Of Human Bondage (1964)
7. Sextette (1978)
8. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
aka: The Man with the Green Carnation
aka: The Green Carnation
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