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Madeleine (1950)
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Golden Salamander (1950)
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
The Gorbals Story (1950)
A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.
The Blue Lamp (1950)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat….
Madness of the Heart (1949)
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family’s chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
The Spider and the Fly (1949)
“The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq,…
Boys in Brown (1949)
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where…
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents…
A Run for Your Money (1949)
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers…
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus…
Reign of Terror (1949)
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D’Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of…
Christopher Columbus (1949)
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in…
Landfall (1949)
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his…
Trottie True (1949)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner,…
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is…
Diamond City (1949)
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the “Wild South”.
The Hasty Heart (1949)
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a…
Under Capricorn (1949)
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to help her conquer her…
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett’s novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how…
The Third Man (1949)
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops…
Obsession (1949)
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife’s lover.
Conspirator (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949)
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is “not past it,” decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses…
The Story of Shirley Yorke (1949)
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and…
Vengeance Is Mine (1949)
In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides to get revenge against the man responsible for his…
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family…
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading…
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting…
Man on the Run (1949)
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the…
That Dangerous Age (1949)
The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to…
Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)
Special Agent Dick Barton uncovers a ring of international psychopathic criminals with plans to dominate the world using a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.
It’s Not Cricket (1949)
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. ” This is the regettable story of two…
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the…
The Queen of Spades (1949)
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about…
The Glass Mountain (1949)
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an…
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly…
Edward My Son (1949)
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
Forbidden (1949)
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army…
The Small Back Room (1949)
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome…