Curse of the Pink Panther 1983  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Burt Kwouk, David Niven, Ted Wass, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Capucine, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Roger Moore, Joanna Lumley, Leslie Ash, Graham Stark, Andre Maranne, Peter Arne, Patti Davis
In this sequel, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) rigs the computer, and Interpol provides a successor to Inspector Clouseau, Sgt. Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass), who is even more inept than his predecessor. The motive behind Dreyfus' plot is that he is sure Sleigh will never be able to track down the stolen Pink Panther diamond. But, will Dreyfus' plan backfire?
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Danger Within 1959  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Breakout
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, William Franklyn, Vincent Ball, Peter Arne, Hazel Court
A pretty good tale of British POWs attempting to break out of a prison camp during World War II. There must be a traitor amongst them.
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The Far Pavilions 1984 TV, 318 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Blade of Steel
Director: Peter Duffell
Cast: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Benedict Taylor, Rossano Brazzi, Saeed Jaffrey, Robert Hardy, Omar Sharif, John Gielgud, Jennifer Kendal, Felicity Dean, Peter Arne
This HBO miniseries is set in 19th-century British controlled India and involves the ill-fated romance between English soldier Ashton Pelham-Martyn (Ben Cross) and the Indian Princess Anjuli (Amy Irving).
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 Murders in the Rue Morgue 1971 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Lilli Palmer, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy, Michael Dunn, Peter Arne, Rosalind Elliot, Marshall Jones
Members of a theater playgroup are systematically done away with by a mysterious demon in a major re-write of the Edgar Allen Poe story.
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The Oblong Box 1969  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Heath, Peter Arne, Maxwell Shaw, Sally Geeson, Harry Baird, Carl Rigg, Michael Balfour, Rupert Davies, Uta Levka, Godfrey James, John Barrie, Ivor Dean
A voodoo curse has caused Sir Edward Markham's (Alistar Williamson) face to be terribly disfigured, and his brother Julian (Vincent Price) keeps Edward locked in the attic. As his means of escape, Edward gets help from witch doctor N'Galo (Harry Baird) who gives him medicine to make him appear dead. But, N'Galo has double-crossed him, and Edward is put in a coffin and buried. Grave robbers retrieve him, and his "body" is taken to anatomist Dr. Neuhardt (Christopher Lee) who revives him, and now Edward goes on a killing spree seeking revenge for his betrayal.
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Pirates of Blood River 1962 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Christopher Lee, Glenn Corbett, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Peter Arne, Michael Ripper, Jack Stewart, David Lodge, Marie Devereux, Diane Aubrey, Dennis Waterman, Desmond Llewelyn
Hammer Films presents this high-seas adventure about young Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) who is exiled by his father (Andrew Keir) to a penal colony. The penal colony is invaded by pirates led by Captain LaRoche (Christopher Lee), and Jonathan leads LaRoche and his pirate ship to his Caribbean home where LaRoche believes a treasure is buried. LaRoche takes control of the town while searching for the treasure, and many are killed in the process. Finally, LaRoache finds the treasure–a gold statue of Jonathan's grandfather–and attempts to haul it away. But, Jonathan and his cohorts attack the raft, the statue falls overboard and sinks to the bottom of the sea, La Roche is killed, and the survivors return home.
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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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The Return of the Pink Panther 1975 G, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Peter Arne, Gregoire Aslan, Andre Maranne, Peter Jeffrey, Eric Pohlmann, David Lodge, Graham Stark, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Mike Grady
Someone has stolen the Pink Panther diamond from the museum in Lugash, and bungling Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) heads to Switzerland believing that, once again, Sir Charles Lytton (Christopher Plummer), a.k.a. the Phantom, and his wife Claudine (Catherine Schell) are the culprits. But, Lytton is not the one who stole the diamond and is, instead, trying to track down the real jewel thief while Claudine sends Clouseau on a wild-goose chase. Meanwhile, Clouseau's boss Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) gets fed up with Clouseau's ineptness and plots to get rid of him once and for all.
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 Straw Dogs 1971  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, Del Henney, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Ken Hutchison, Jim Norton, Peter Arne, Chloe Franks, Donald Webster, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett, Robert Keegan, Cherina Schaer
Quietly studious professor David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife Amy (Susan George) move to a rural British home as the means of escaping violence in the city. They hire workers to build their garage, but the workers, led by Charlie Verner (Del Henney), make fun of David and flirt with Amy. Later, the workers take David on a hunting trip; but, they desert him, and then two of them find Amy and rape her. David becomes enraged following the rape and resorts to violence in his effort to fight those responsible. A very violent film (especially for that time).
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Trail of the Pink Panther 1982 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Capucine, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk, Robert Wagner, Joanna Lumley, Graham Stark, Peter Arne, Andre Maranne, Ronald Fraser, Marne Maitland
The investigation involving the death of Inspector Clouseau (following Peter Seller's actual death) provides the occasion for this film to patch together previous film clips of the inspector in action.
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Victor/Victoria 1982 PG, 133 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies, Graham Stark, Peter Arne, Norman Chancer, Malcolm Jamieson
Unable to make it big as a cabaret singer, Victoria (Julie Andrews) poses as a female impersonator–with the help of her gay friend, Toddy (Robert Preston). She becomes a star, which presents unforeseen problems for Toddy. In addition to an Oscar for Best Musical Score, the film received six nominations, including Best Actress, Actor (Preston), and Supporting Actress (Lesley Ann Warren).
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| 1. Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
2. Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
3. Danger Within (1959)
aka: Breakout
4. The Far Pavilions (1984)
aka: Blade of Steel
5. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
6. The Oblong Box (1969)
7. Pirates of Blood River (1962)
8. The Purple Plain (1954)
9. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
10. Straw Dogs (1971)
11. Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
12. Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
13. Victor/Victoria (1982)
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