The 7th Dawn 1964   N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Seventh Dawn
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Tetsuro Tamba, Michael Goodliffe, Allan Cuthbertson, Maurice Denham, Sydney Tafler, Beulah Quo, Tony Price
Communist terrorists, British officials, and the people of Malaya fight for control of the country.
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After the Fox 1966  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Paolo Stoppa, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff, Lydia Brazzi, Maurice Denham
This Neil Simon vehicle follows a lovable crook who manages to get caught and imprisoned every time he attempts a crime. He escapes and begins his next caper of smuggling $3 million via an Italian seashore by pretending to be making a movie. Though not one of Neil Simon's best, it still has some good laughs. Mature, as an over-the-hill actor, is great.
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The Alphabet Murders 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The ABC Murders
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Guy Rolfe, Sheila Allen, James Villiers, Julian Glover, Grazina Frame, Clive Morton, Richard Wattis, David Lodge, Cyril Luckham, Austin Trevor
There's a murderer on the loose, and he's killing his victims in alphabetical order. Agatha Christie's famed detective, Hercule Poirot (Tony Randall), is on the trail in this comedic take on the Christie story.
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Animal Farm 1954 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Animation / Drama
Director: John Halas
Cast: Maurice Denham, Gordon Heath
Gordon Heath narrates George Orwell's novel about the corruption of government agencies where a pig named Napoleon (voice of Maurice Denham, who also provided the voices of the other animals) creates havoc in a social revolt is depicted in this animated British film. This is not a cartoon show for children.
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Attack on the Iron Coast 1968 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden, Maurice Denham, Glyn Owen, George Mikell, Walter Gotell, Bill Henderson, John Welsh
Sir Frederick Grafton (Lloyd Bridges) leads a Canadian commando group on a daring attack against the German fleet off the French coast.
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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 Blue Lagoon 1949 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Jean Simmons, Susan Stranks, Donald Houston, Peter Rudolph Jones, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, James Hayter, Nora Nicholson, Philip Stainton, Patrick Barr, Lyn Evans
Based on Henry De Vere Stacpoole's novel, this is the story of two young people, Michael Reynolds (Donald Houston) and Emmeline Foster (Jean Simmons), who are marooned on a deserted island, fall in love, and become parents.
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Damn the Defiant! 1962 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Victor Maddern
While fighting Napoleon's fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, a captain and his first mate form differences of opinion that threaten the success of their mission. This film remains faithful to historical fact.
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The Day of the Jackal 1973   PG, 144 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, David(2) Swift, Denis Carey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Lonsdale, Olga Georges-Picot, Derek Jacobi, Raymond Gerome
Conspiring French generals hire the Jackal (Edward Fox) to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) in the early 1960s. The French Security Force is suspicious when the French generals who hired the Jackal have gone into hiding. They kidnap the generals' errand boy, and when questioned he reveals the assassins name. The Security Force hires ace detective Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) to track down the Jackal before he kills DeGaulle. The Jackal now assumes a new identity that will make it even more difficult for Lebel to catch him before he completes the assassination. And the mystery deepens.
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson 1978 TV, 270 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Waris Hussein
Cast: Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham, Marius Goring, Nigel Hawthorne, Cherie Lunghi, Kika Markham, Jessie Matthews, Andrew Ray, John Shrapnel, David Waller
In the sequel to the biography of King Edward VII, "Edward the King" (1975), this made-for-TV British miniseries is based on the life of King Edward VIII who gave up his throne to be with the woman he loved, the divorced American socialite Wallace Simpson.
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Escape 1948 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Norman Wooland, Betty Ann Davies, Jill Esmond, Frederick Piper, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, Marjorie Rhodes
Rex Harrison plays the role of a former RAF commander who is sent to prison unjustly–in his opinion. This is a gripping tale of how he comes to terms with himself.
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The Long Duel 1967 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Andrew Keir, Charlotte Rampling, Laurence Naismith, Maurice Denham, Virginia North, Terence Alexander, Marianne Stone
Sultan (Yul Brynner) leads his people in a revolt against bondage enforced through British rule in India.
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Luther 1973 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Stacy Keach, Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith, Robert Stephens, Alan Badel, Judi Dench, Julian Glover, Leonard Rossiter, Maurice Denham, Peter Cellier, Thomas Heathcote, Malcolm Stoddard
John Osborne's play is adapted to the screen in this biography of 16th-century religious leader Martin Luther (Stacy Keach). The story covers Luther's growing issues with the Catholic Church and his decision to lead the Reformation movement.
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The Malta Story 1953 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Brian Desmond
Cast: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Flora Robson, Ralph Truman, Peter Bull, Nigel Stock, Renee Asherson, Hugh Burden, Reginald Tate, Rosalie Crutchley, Thomas Heathcote, Maurice Denham, Noel Willman
During World War II, a member of the Royal Air Force, British Lieutenant Pete Ross (Alec Guinness), performs camera reconnaissance missions and hands over evidence to his senior officer (Jack Hawkins) that Italy is planning a major invasion of Malta. Now, Ross finds himself stranded on Malta. Although low on supplies, Ross is determined to defend the island fortress against the Italian army's attack and practices survival techniques. Meanwhile, he has a romance with a Maltese girl, Maria (Muriel Pavlow), but fate steps in as Ross carries out his duties that lead to the ultimate sacrifice.
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The Mark 1961 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Maria Schell, Rod Steiger, Donald Wolfit, Brenda De Banzie, Paul Rogers, Maurice Denham, Eddie Byrne, Donald Houston, John Welsh
A former child molester, Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), is released from prison and undergoes treatment from a psychiatrist (Rod Steiger) who helps him learn that, for him, falling in love with Ruth (Maria Schell) does NOT erase the past. Whitman was nominated for an Oscar.
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The Million Pound Note 1954 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man with a Million
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffith, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Reginald Beckwith, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernest Thesiger, A.E. Matthews, Maurice Denham, Bryan Forbes
Based on the Mark Twain fable, this is the story of a poor American in London who receives a million pound note and the problems he encounters during the month he is to keep it in his possession.
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Monsignor Quixote 1987 TV, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rodney Bennett
Cast: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson, Graham Growden, Maurice Denham, Philip Stone, Rosalie Crutchley, Valentine Pelka, Don Fellows, Gareth Kirkland
This film, based on Graham Greene's novel, is about an unassuming Spanish priest (Alec Guinness) who is appointed a monsignor. The new monsignor is a descendent of Don Quixote, and he–along with a politician (Leo McKern)–retraces the adventures of the infamous knight.
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Mr. Love 1985 PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Battersby
Cast: Barry Jackson, Maurice Denham, Margaret Tyzack, Linda Marlowe, Christina Collier, Helen Cotterill, Julia Deakin, Donal McCann, Marcia Warren, Patsy Byrne
This story begins at a gardener's, Donald Lovelace (Barry Jackson), funeral and continues through the flashback memories of a surprising number of women he had loved.
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The Nanny 1965 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Seth Holt
Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers, William Dix, Pamela Franklin, Jack Watling, Alfred Burke, Maurice Denham, Harry Fowler, Angarad Aubrey, Sandra Power, Nora Gordon
Ten-year-old Joey (William Dix) returns home after two years of mental treatment for killing his sister. He is then under the charge of the real killer–his psychotic Nanny (Bette Davis). Only Joey recognizes the Nanny for what she really is. Joey's mother (Wendy Craig) is poisoned and nearly dies from food prepared by the Nanny, but still no one–except Joey's neighbor friend Bobbie (Pamela Franklin)–believes that the nanny is responsible. Matters come to a head when the Nanny tries to smother Joey with a pillow, is discovered by Joey's Aunt Pen (Jill Bennett), and the Nanny leaves the house forever. 1 User Review
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| | luvagood1 09/14/2009 | | If you love Betty Davis when she does suspense thrillers, this is one to see. She always has you on the edge of your seat. |
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Night of the Demon 1957 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Curse of the Demon
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond, Reginald Beckwith, Ewan Roberts, Peter Elliott, Rosamund Greenwood
American psychologist Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews) heads to London to attend a symposium aimed at exposing a witchcraft/devil-worshipping cult as a fraud. Upon arrival, he is advised that the symposium leader has died unexpectedly. The cult leader (Niall MacGinnis) is now out to get the good doctor who has his hands full since, indeed, a demon can be summoned.
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Our Man in Havana 1960 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Paul Rogers, Gregoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Denham, Jose Prieto, Duncan Macrae
This film adaptation of the Graham Greene novel features Alec Guinness as British expatriate Jim Wormold who, while living in pre-revolutionary Cuba, is recruited as a spy by British intelligence agent Hawthorne (Noel Coward). Wormold invents information on agents and events for which he is paid, and he uses his ill-begotten money for his daughter Milly (Jo Morrow) to appease her expensive tastes. The crooked police chief, Capt. Segura (Ernie Kovacs), believes that Wormold is truly a spy, and he finds Millie attractive. Wormold's reputation accelerates, and–in spite of his false reports–he actually performs a service for Britain.
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Paranoiac 1963 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Liliane Brousse, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham, Alexander Davion, John Bonney, John Stuart, Harold Lang, Arnold Diamond, Colin Tapley, Sydney Bromley
Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) thinks she has seen her long-dead brother, Tony (Alexander Davion), and believes she is going mad. When it appears that Tony has returned, his wealthy, but dysfunctional family–including brother Simon (Oliver Reed)–have major problems dealing with it and suspect foul play. Jealousy ensues as family members try to figure out what is really happening.
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The Purple Plain 1954 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham, Brenda De Banzie, Lyndon Brook, Anthony Bushell, Jack McNaughton, Peter Arne, Dorothy Alison
After crashing his plane in Burma, a World War II Royal Air Force pilot (Gregory Peck) has time to contemplate how he lost confidence in himself as a wartime pilot and ended up in his predicament.
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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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Sink the Bismarck! 1960 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Mohner, Laurence Naismith, Karel Stepanek, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Hordern, Maurice Denham, Michael Goodliffe, Esmond Knight
This film is based on the true World War II assignment of the British Navy to locate and sink the German battleship Bismarck. It is filled with intrigue and excitement as the British zero in on their target.
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Some Girls Do 1969  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar, James Villiers, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Sydne Rome, Florence Desmond, Ronnie Stevens, Virginia North
This was the second attempt to revive the old Bulldog Drummond series–it failed, though the story isn't too bad–it revolves around possible espionage involving Britain's new supersonic airliner.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham, Bessie Love, Vivian Pickles, Harold Goldblatt, Richard Pearson, Frank Windsor, Thomas Baptiste, June Brown, Hannah Norbert, Marie Burke
In this story of a bisexual love triangle, set in London during the early 1970s, Bob Elkin (Murray Head) is the lover of both Dr. Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson)–who happen to share the same answering machine service. Bob and Alex agree to babysit for the five children of Alva and Bill Hodson (Vivian Pickles and Frank Windsor), but on Saturday morning Bob excuses himself and leaves. Alex knows that he is headed off to see Daniel and does not handle the problem well–all of which Bob will learn when he returns on Sunday. This is a groundbreaking film on the subject of homosexuality. Great performances make this adult drama an event well-worth viewing. Oscar nominations were received for Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Jackson), and Best Director.
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Tears in the Rain 1988 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Sharon Stone, Christopher Cazenove, Leigh Lawson, Paul Daneman, Maurice Denham, Anna Massey, Rachael Dowling, Harry Burton, Colette Stevenson, Stephanie Cole, Janet Price, Donald Gee
As her last request, Casey's (Sharon Stone) mother (Colette Stevenson) had asked her to deliver a mysterious letter to Lord Richard Bredon (Paul Daneman). Casey travels to London, gives Lord Bredon the letter, and during the visit falls in love with his son Michael (Christopher Cazenove). Problems lie ahead when it is suggested that Casey and Michael may be separated siblings, but all is cleared up by story's end.
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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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Torture Garden 1967 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Barbara Ewing, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, John Standing, Robert Hutton, John Phillips, Michael Ripper, Bernard Kay, Catherine Finn, Niall MacGinnis, Ursula Howells
During his circus sideshow performance, Dr. Diablo (Burgess Meredith) proclaims, "I've promised you horror...and I intend to keep that promise!" Four separate horror episodes ensue. In "Enoch," a greedy playboy (Michael Bryant) makes sure he gets his inheritance by obeying a talking cat, Balthaza. The second story, "Terror over Hollywood," involves an actress (Beverly Adams) falling in love with a leading man (Robert Hutton) only to learn that he has been turned into a robot, and the same fate lies in store for her. In "Mr. Steinway," a journalist (Barbara Ewing) interviews a concert pianist (John Standing) whose piano is possessed. Finally, in "The Man Who Collected Poe," a collector (Jack Palance) visits a fellow collector (Peter Cushing) and learns that he has brought Edgar Allan Poe back to life, and he is writing stories in the basement.
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Two Way Stretch 1960 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Lionel Jeffries, Liz Fraser, Beryl Reid, Irene Handl, Thorley Walters, Noel Hood, Myrette Morven, George Woodbridge, Edwin Brown, Wallas Eaton
Three convicts–Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers), Jelly Knight (David Lodge), and Lennie Price (Bernard Cribbins) break out of jail to rob a maharajah, commit the perfect crime, and return to jail for the perfect alibi. With help from Soapy Stevens (Wilfrid Hyde-White), they perform the heist, but then are faced with the problem of where to store the jewels. They decide to hide them in the warden's safe, and wait to be released. That works, but problems lie in their future.
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The Upturned Glass 1947 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Cast: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Ann Stephens, Morland Graham, Brefni O'Rorke, Henry Oscar, Jane Hylton, Maurice Denham, Beatrice Varley, Peter Cotes, Sheila Huntington, Susan Shaw, Cyril Chamberlain, Howard Douglas
Doctor Michael Joyce (James Mason) is a neurosurgeon whose lover Emma (Rosamund John) has been killed. He avenges her murder through a diabolical plot against the killer, Kate Howard (Pamela Mason). He stuffs the body in his car trunk and shortly after is called on to help a child who had been hurt in a car accident. If he doesn't come to the child's aid, the child may die. But, if he does help, the body may be found. Will he remain faithful to the Hippocratic Oath, or will he choose to flee and prevent the body from being discovered?
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The Virgin and the Gypsy 1970 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Christopher Miles
Cast: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns, Maurice Denham, Fay Compton, Kay Walsh, Harriet Harper, Norman Bird, Imogen Hassall, Jeremy Bulloch, Margo Andrew
Based on D.H. Lawrence's novella, this drama involves sisters Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and Lucille (Harriet Harper) returning home to England from their French school. Once again living under the rules of their strict, rector father (Maurice Denham) oppresses the girls. One day, while on a walk Yvette meets a free-spirited Gypsy (Franko Nero) at his camp and is sexually attracted to him. The Gypsy just may provide the freedom that Yvette longs for from her family's oppressive lifestyle.
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| 1. The 7th Dawn (1964)
aka: The Seventh Dawn
2. 84 Charing Cross Road (1986)
3. After the Fox (1966)
4. The Alphabet Murders (1966)
aka: The ABC Murders
5. Animal Farm (1954)
6. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
7. Barnacle Bill (1957)
aka: All at Sea
8. The Blue Lagoon (1949)
9. Countess Dracula (1970)
10. Damn the Defiant! (1962)
11. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
12. Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
13. Escape (1948)
14. The Long Duel (1967)
15. Luther (1973)
16. The Malta Story (1953)
17. The Mark (1961)
18. The Million Pound Note (1954)
aka: Man with a Million
19. Monsignor Quixote (1987)
20. Mr. Love (1985)
21. The Nanny (1965)
22. Night of the Demon (1957)
aka: Curse of the Demon
23. Our Man in Havana (1960)
24. Paranoiac (1963)
25. The Purple Plain (1954)
26. Shout at the Devil (1976)
27. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
28. Some Girls Do (1969)
29. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
30. Tears in the Rain (1988)
31. Time Bomb (1953)
aka: Terror on a Train
32. Torture Garden (1967)
33. Two Way Stretch (1960)
34. The Upturned Glass (1947)
35. The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
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