The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother 1975  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Wilder
Cast: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, John Le Mesurier, Douglas Wilmer, Thorley Walters
Sherlock's younger brother, Sigerson (Gene Wilder), is given the mission of playing the foil but, instead, teams up with the police to solve the case ahead of his famous brother.
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Bartleby 1970  PG, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Friedman
Cast: Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters, Colin Jeavons, Raymond Mason, Charles Kinross, Neville Barber, Robin Askwith, Hope Jackman, John Watson, Christine Dingle, Rosalind Elliot
Based on a story by Herman Melville, this is the tale of Bartleby (John McEnery) who withdraws from society, preferring to live in his solitary world. He takes a job with an accountant (Paul Scofield) but is fired after he is unable to perform his tasks. Even then, Bartleby shows up for work daily until he enters a hospital and it is learned that he suffers from several ailments. The accountant is at first happy to be rid of Bartleby but later suffers over Bartleby's death. Plodding.
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man in a Cocked Hat
Director: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Cast: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Thorley Walters, Ian Bannen, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Kynaston Reeves, Marne Maitland, Marie Lohr, Ronald Adam, Basil Dignam, Irene Handl, John Van Eyssen
Incompetent British diplomat Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas) is placed in charge of a British protectorate in this satire on a cog in the British colonial system. The purpose of Carlton-Browne's assignment is to prevent foreign powers from taking a rich mineral deposit that has been discovered on the island of Gaillardia. World powers do appear on the scene, and, when matters spin out of control with young King Loris (Ian Bannen) as ruler, the Prime Minister of the island, Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), undermines him and leads a revolution to overthrow the British.
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Revenge of Dracula
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Jack Lambert, Suzan Farmer, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham, Walter Brown, George Woodbridge, Philip Ray, John Maxim, Joyce Hemson
This sequel to "Horror of Dracula" again features Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. Tourists visit the grounds of Count Dracula's Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian Mountains, and one of them, Alan Kent (Charles "Bud" Tingwell), is sacrificed in a ritual to bring Count Dracula back to life. Dracula then turns Alan's wife Helen (Barbara Shelley) into a vampire. Meanwhile, the remaining tourists seek refuge, but Dracula and his new vampire are on their trail.
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The Earth Dies Screaming 1964 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Vanda Godsell, Thorley Walters, David Spenser, Anna Palk
When American test pilot Jeff Nolan (Willard Parker) lands in England, he finds it destroyed by alien robots and the victims turned into zombies. But, there are a few survivors, and they work with Nolan to destroy the aliens' transmission station and fend off the invading robots.
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The Family Way 1966  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills, Marjorie Rhodes, Avril Angers, John Comer, Wilfred Pickles, Barry Foster, Liz Fraser, Andrew Bradford, Thorley Walters, Colin Gordon, Robin Parkinson, Harry Locke
Shy newly-weds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett) encounter more than a few problems living their first few weeks of marriage at the home of Arthur's parents, Ezra and Lucy (John Mills and Marjorie Rhodes). Between interference from friends, neighbors, and family, does this couple have a chance?
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Frankenstein Created Woman 1967 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Robert Morris, Barry Warren, Thorley Walters, Duncan Lamont, Peter Blythe, Derek Fowlds, Alan MacNaughtan, Peter Madden, Philip Ray, Ivan Beavis, Colin Jeavons, Alec Mango, Bartlett Mullins
Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) brings Christina (Susan Denberg), back to life after she commits suicide. But, he slips the soul of her lover, who has been executed, into her body. When Christina regains consciousness, she sets out to seek revenge against those responsible for the execution.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1970 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley, George Pravda, Geoffrey Bayldon, Harold Goodwin, Peter Copley, Colette O'Neil, Frank Middlemass, Jim Collier, Frank Middlemass, Norman Shelley
Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) visits his colleague Dr. Brandt (George Pravda) who has been committed to an insane asylum. While there, Frankenstein blackmails a doctor, Karl (Simon Ward), and his lover Anna (Veronica Carlson) into helping him free Brandt. After escaping from the asylum, Frankenstein accidentally kills Brandt and then transplants Pravda's brain into asylum employee Professor Richter (Freddie Jones)–an act that will lead to death and destruction.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself 1970 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Roger Moore, Hildegarde Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie, Kevork Malikyan, Thorley Walters, Anton Rodgers, Olga Georges-Picot, Freddie Jones, John Welsh
Harold Pelham (Roger Moore), a successful businessman, has a car accident. Surgery is successful but it appears that his alter ego is released. When Harold gets out, he finds that his "other" self has been acting much differently from him, including a sexual awakening and making different business decisions.
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Murder She Said 1961 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Meet Miss Marple
Agatha Christie's Murder, She Said
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Thorley Walters, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Conrad Phillips, Ronald Howard, Joan Hickson, Stringer Davis, Gordon Harris
While sitting in her train seat, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) witnesses a murder taking place on a passing train. She alerts police, but they doubt her story. What does Miss Marple do? She begins her own investigation and obtains a job as a maid inside Ackenthorpe Hall, an estate in the area where the murder took place and searches the house for clues.
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The People That Time Forgot 1977 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Kevin Connor
Cast: Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie, Thorley Walters, Shane Rimmer, Tony Britton, John Hallam, Milton Reid, David Prowse
This movie is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' tale is a sequel to "The Land That Time Forgot." It involves a mission heading back to the island in search of the marooned Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) that is led by Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne).
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1962 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Musical / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Michael Gough, Edward DeSouza, Thorley Walters, Miles Malleson, Harold Goodwin, Martin Miller, Marne Maitland, Sonya Cordeau, Liane Aukin, Sonya Cordeau, Patrick Troughton, Miriam Karlin, Renee Houston
In this version of "The Phantom of the Opera," the story takes place at the Royal Opera House in London instead of the Paris Opera House. Years ago, music professor Petrie (Herbert Lom) was hideously burned in a fire but has returned to London where, as the masked Phantom, he terrorizes the opera house that is preparing to perform an opera that had been stolen from him. He lives in the sewer beneath the opera house and kidnaps opera star Christine (Heather Sears), who he loves, so that he can train her to perform his opera. Now, Christine's fiance Harry Hunter (Edward DeSouza) searches for Christine, and, when he finds her, it is Harry who unmasks the Phantom.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Valley of Fear
Director: Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein
Cast: Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Hans Sohnker, Hans Nielsen, Ivan Desny, Leon Askin, Thorley Walters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Bernard La Jarrige
In one of the more unusual depictions of the storied sleuth, this German-made film shows the villainous Moriarty (Hans Sohnker) as respected in both the community and by Scotland Yard. But when a necklace is stolen from Cleopatra's tomb, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Christopher Lee and Thorley Walters) are hot on Moriarty's trail.
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The Sign of Four 1983 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
Director: Desmond Davis
Cast: Ian Richardson, David Healy, Thorley Walters, Terence Rigby, Joe Melia, Cherie Lunghi, John Pedrick, Clive Merrison, Richard Heffer, Michael O'Hagan, Robert Russell, Gordon Rollings, John Benfield, Moti Makan, Kate Binchy
Mary Morstan (Cherie Lunghi) receives a gift of the second-largest diamond in the world, the "Great Mogul," from an anonymous donor. Now, the anonymous man calls and asks Mary to meet him. She asks Sherlock Holmes (Ian Richardson) and Dr. Watson (David Healy) to accompany her. They investigate and learn that two villains–ex-con with a wooden leg Jonathan Small (Joe Melia) and murderous midget Tonga (John Pedrick)–are determined to get the diamond and will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
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Soft Beds and Hard Battles 1975  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Undercovers Hero
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curt Jurgens, Beatrice Romand, Rex Stallings, Jenny Hanley, Gabriella Licudi, Francoise Pascal, Rula Lenska, Daphne Lawson, Hylette Adolphe, Vernon Dobtcheff, Douglas Sheldon, Thorley Walters, Timothy West
You cannot win them all as Peter Sellers exemplifies in this bomb of a comedy about World War II as he takes on several roles.
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Suspect 1960 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Risk
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Cast: Tony Britton, Peter Cushing, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Thorley Walters, Donald Pleasence, Spike Milligan, Kenneth Griffith, Basil Dignam
Scientists working under Professor Sewell (Peter Cushing) discover a means to wipe out typhus and bubonic plague. The government classifies the work since it could, perhaps, be used by the enemy for germ warfare. One of the team is frustrated with that decision and makes a deal with the wrong people.
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There's a Girl in My Soup 1970 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, Diana Dors, Nicola Pagett, Christopher Cazenove, Judy Campbell, John Comer, Gabrielle Drake, Thorley Walters
Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged TV personality who falls for a young woman, Marion (Goldie Hawn), who is in the middle of big marriage problems.
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They Were Sisters 1945 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Cast: Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray, Anne Crawford, James Mason, Pamela Kellino, Hugh Sinclair, Ann Stephens, David Horne, Brefni O'Rorke, Thorley Walters
Three sisters together experience joy and sorrow through their respective marriages and children in this British melodrama.
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Twisted Nerve 1968 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, Salmaan Peerzada, Thorley Walters, Christian Roberts, Timothy West, Gretchen Franklin, Clifford Cox, Robin Parkinson, Russell Napier, Mollie Maureen
Martin (Hywel Bennett) is 21 years old, but when he suffers from stress, Martin takes on the personality of a six-year-old "Georgie." After Martin is caught stealing a toy duck to give to his mongoloid brother, Susan (Hayley Mills) talks the store manager out of pressing charges. When his stepfather (Frank Finlay) hears of the incident, he throws Martin out of the house, and "Georgie" moves into the boarding house of Susan's mother (Billie Whitelaw). Murders ensue when Martin kills his stepfather and then Susan's mother as his solution to problems in his life.
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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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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 Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
2. Bartleby (1970)
3. Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
aka: Man in a Cocked Hat
4. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
aka: Revenge of Dracula
5. The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
6. The Family Way (1966)
7. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
8. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)
9. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
10. Murder She Said (1961)
aka: Meet Miss Marple
aka: Agatha Christie's Murder, She Said
11. The People That Time Forgot (1977)
12. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
13. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
aka: Valley of Fear
14. The Sign of Four (1983)
aka: Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
15. Soft Beds and Hard Battles (1975)
aka: Undercovers Hero
16. Suspect (1960)
aka: The Risk
17. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
18. They Were Sisters (1945)
19. Twisted Nerve (1968)
20. Two Way Stretch (1960)
21. Who Done It? (1956)
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