The Captain's Paradise 1953  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Cast: Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Charles Goldner, Peter Bull, Bill Fraser, Miles Malleson, Ferdy Mayne, Nicholas Phipps, Sebastian Cabot, Walter Crisham, Roger Delgado, Victor Fairley, Tutte Lemkow, Ambrosine Phillpotts
This film is a comedy about Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) who is the captain of a steamer sailing regularly between Gibraltar and North Africa. He solves the problem of loneliness when away from home by having two wives. Maude (Celia Johnson) lives in Gibraltar, and Nita (Yvonne De Carlo) is in Tangiers. Problems rise to the fore when both women change their minds about the way they want to live, and Henry is left with no wives.
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Charlie Bubbles 1968  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert Finney
Cast: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Liza Minnelli, Timothy Garland, Alan Lake, Richard Pearson, Peter Sallis, Charles Lamb, Nicholas Phipps
Charlie's (Albert Finney) life seems to revolve around only three relationships–his wife Lottie (Billie Whitelaw), son Jack (Timothy Garland), and his secretary Eliza (Liza Minnelli)–until he decides to try life on his own and sails off in an orange hot-air balloon.
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The Iron Petticoat 1956  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff, Alan Gifford, Paul Carpenter, Nicholas Phipps, Sid James, Tutte Lemkow
When a stern Soviet officer (Katharine Hepburn) defects to the West, an American officer (Bob Hope) takes her on an eye-opening adventure in the capitalist world.
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Orders to Kill 1958 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth, Leslie French, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sam Kydd, Nicholas Phipps
Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is an American spy who is ordered to Paris to track down and kill a suspected French Nazi agent (Eddie Albert).
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Who Done It? 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, George Margo, Ernest Thesiger, Denis Shaw, Frederick Schiller, Thorley Walters, Nicholas Phipps, Gibb McLaughlin, Ernest Jay
Popular British TV comedian Benny Hill makes his screen debut playing the role of Hugo, an ice-rink sweeper, who wins money in a contest. His ambition to become a detective is fulfilled when he uses the money to open a detective agency. But he gets more than he bargained for when he quickly gets involved in an assassination plot. For Benny Hill fans only.
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| 1. The Captain's Paradise (1953)
2. Charlie Bubbles (1968)
3. The Iron Petticoat (1956)
4. Orders to Kill (1958)
5. Who Done It? (1956)
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