Beat Girl 1960  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Wild for Kicks
Director: Edmond T. Greville
Cast: David Farrar, Noelle Adam, Gillian Hills, Christopher Lee, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field, Peter McEnery, Claire Gordon, Nigel Green, Oliver Reed, Delphi Lawrence, Michael Kane
Teen beatnik rebel Jennifer (Gillian Hills) is not at all happy when her widowed father, Paul (David Farrar), marries young Nichole (Noelle Adam) who is not much older than Jennifer. Finding out that Nichole may have been a stripper, Jennifer becomes a stripper at the sleazy club where Nichole worked. But problems loom when the lecherous club owner (Christopher Lee) takes an interest in Jennifer.
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The Cat and the Canary 1978  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Radley Metzger
Cast: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Carol Lynley, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey, Beatrix Lehmann, Daniel Massey, Peter McEnery, Wilfrid Hyde-White
In this remake of the classic old-dark-mansion-where- people-get-murdered-one-by-one story, Annabelle (Carol Lynley) is heiress to a fortune. But there are unhappy relatives with murder on their minds. Good cast and execution.
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal 1966  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Cast: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir, Donal McCann, Richard Leech, Peter Jeffrey, Marie Kean, Bill Owen
A young Irish prince, Hugh O'Donnell (Peter McEnery) rescues his people from the encroaching English forces during the Elizabethan era in this exciting Disney film.
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The Game Is Over 1966  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery, Tina Aumont, Jacques Monod, Simone Valerie, Howard Vernon, Douglas Read, Ham-Chau Luong, Germaine Montero
Young Renee (Jane Fonda) lives a life of leisure in the mansion of her older, rich husband, Alexandre (Michel Piccoli). While she enjoys his money, she also enjoys the bed of her stepson, Maxime (Peter McEnery). When Alexandre finds out about the affair, he arranges a marriage between Maxime and another man while ensuring that Renee is cut out of his estate. Based on an Emile Zola novel. Fonda was Vadim's wife at the time.
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The Moon-Spinners 1964  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Family / Mystery
Director: James Neilson
Cast: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery, Joan Greenwood, Irene Papas, Pola Negri, Paul Stassino, John Le Mesurier, Andre Morell, Tutte Lemkow
This is a mystery film for children from the Disney Studios. Nickie Ferris (Hayley Mills) and Aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood) are visiting Crete and become involved in helping a man who is innocently involved in a jewel theft.
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Tunes of Glory 1960  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, Susannah York, John Fraser, Allan Cuthbertson, John Mackenzie, Gordon Jackson, Peter McEnery
Contrasting styles of two very different soldiers, Jack Sinclair (Alec Guinness) and Basil Barrow (John Mills), leads to opposite results from the men they lead.
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Victim 1961 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird, Peter McEnery, Donald Churchill, Derren Nesbitt, John Barrie, John Cairney, Alan MacNaughtan
Homosexuality was illegal in England in the 1960s, and this film is one of the first to influence the "opening up" of the discussion on the subject. Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is a married lawyer who had demonstrated homosexual tendencies in the past and had a male lover. Being illegal, such people were often blackmailed, and Melville gets involved with the issue when he takes on the blackmailing in court.
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| 1. Beat Girl (1960)
aka: Wild for Kicks
2. The Cat and the Canary (1978)
3. The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)
4. The Game Is Over (1966)
5. The Moon-Spinners (1964)
6. Tunes of Glory (1960)
7. Victim (1961)
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