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“The St. Louis Bank Robbery” (also called “The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery”, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 heist film shot in black and white. The noir film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. The film is based on …
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Dick Barton’s (Don Stannard) plans for a relaxing seaside holiday with his friends are thwarted when they stumble upon a sinister Nazi plot to unleash a deadly chemical virus and bring the nation to its knees. Will Dick, Snowey and friends be able to save the day? Directed by Alfred J. Goulding with cinematography by …
River policemen go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring. Their enquiries lead them to the most notorious part of town and the night-club with a reputation to match. There they gain the confidence of the owner and skilfully match the evidence with the crime but before they can inform their superiors …
“So’s Your Aunt Emma!” is a 1942 American film directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film is also known as “Meet the Mob”. — Directed by Jean Yarbrough, Produced by Lindsley Parsons (producer) and Barney A. Sarecky (associate producer), written by George Bricker (writer), Edmond Kelso (writer) and Harry Hervey (story “Aunt Emma Paints the Town”), …
“The Way Ahead” is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as “The Immortal Battalion”. The film was written by …
“Q Planes” (1939) released in the United States by Columbia Pictures as “Clouds Over Europe”, is a British spy film directed by Tim Whelan and Arthur B. Woods, starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. The film was produced by Irving Asher with Alexander Korda as executive producer. The name “Q Planes” may have …
“Tangled Destinies” is a 1932 American film directed by Frank R. Strayer. The film is also known as “Who Killed Harvey Forbes?” in the United Kingdom. — Directed by Frank R. Strayer, produced by Ralph M. Like, written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. (story and adaptaion), starring Gene Morgan as Capt. Randall “Randy” Gordon, Doris …
“Oliver Twist” is a 1933 American film directed by William J. Cowen. It is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s popular novel with the same name and was the first sound version of the classic. It stars Irving Pichel as Fagin, Dickie Moore as Oliver, Doris Lloyd as Nancy, and William “Stage” Boyd as Bill Sikes. …
“Scrooge” is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had played the role of Scrooge on …
“The Animal Kingdom” (also known as The Woman in His House in the UK) is a 1932 American comedy-drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith based upon a comedy of manners of the same name by Philip Barry. The film starred Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Ilka Chase, and Neil Hamilton. Howard, …