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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The Deadly Game 1955  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Third Party Risk
Director: Daniel Birt
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Finlay Currie, Maureen Swanson, Simone Silva, Ferdy Mayne, Peter Dyneley, Roger Delgado, George Woodbridge, Russell Waters, Mary Parker, Seymour Green, Patrick Westwood
An American ex-GI, Philip Graham (Lloyd Bridges), is visiting in Spain when he meets an Army buddy, Tony Roscoe (Peter Dyneley), and runs an errand for him. Later, when Tony turns up murdered, Philip is accused of killing him in order to get his hands on certain microfilm containing secret formulas of a pharmaceutical company. Now, Philip must use all means possible to clear his name.
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The Mind Benders 1963  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Harold Goldblatt, Geoffrey Keen, Terry Palmer, Norman Bird, Roger Delgado
After a scientist commits suicide, his friend and colleague, Henry (Dirk Bogarde), tries to convince authorities that the man had been brainwashed by a new technique intended to extract secret information. In order to convince doubters, Henry agrees to undergo the revolutionary brainwashing, which has bad consequences. Eerie, but interesting.
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The Mummy's Shroud 1967 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars, Maggie Kimberly, Michael Ripper, Andreas Malandrinos, Tim Barrett, Richard Warner, Roger Delgado, Catherine Lacey, Dickie Owen, Bruno Barnabe, Toni Gilpin, Eddie Powell
British archaeologists Sir Basil Walden (Andre Morrell), Paul Preston (David Buck), a photographer (Tim Barrett), and psychic linguist Claire (Maggie Kimberley) make the mistake of digging up the mummified remains of an Egyptian Pharaoh and now must pay the consequences of being killed off–one by one.
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| 1. The Captain's Paradise (1953)
2. The Deadly Game (1955)
aka: Third Party Risk
3. The Mind Benders (1963)
4. The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
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