Thriller
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Mr. Denning Drives North | 1951 | John Mills, Phyllis Calvert
Brisk comedy thriller starring John Mills who accidentally kills his daughter Eileen Moore’s crooked lover Herbert Lom and disposes of…
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The League of Gentlemen | 1960 | Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick
The clue is in the title: gentlemen, would-be thieves who are no ordinary crooks but officers and either their equals…
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The Lady Vanishes | 1979 | Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould
A watchable remake of the much-love Hitchcock classic. Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury in high camp mode) goes missing on a…
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The First Great Train Robbery | 1978 | Sean Connery Donald Sutherland
Michael Crichton’s adaptation of his own novel is only sporadically successful. Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland are the pair of…
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Callan | 1974 | Edward Woodward Eric Porter
Overdue big-screen outing for the popular long-running TV series which adds little to the small-screen exploits of Edward Woodward as…
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Fear in the Night | Hammer 1972 | Joan Collins, Peter Cushing
British B movie starring Ralph Bates as a teacher in an adulterous affair with headmaster’s wife Joan Collins. Together they…
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They Made Me a Fugitive | 1947 | Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
Alberto Cavalcanti made too few British features and this dark thriller caused some anguish on release for its toughness and…
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Children of the Damned | 1964 | Ian Hendry, Alan Badel
The follow up to 1960’s Village Of The Damned, Children … opens up the action on a global scale. A…
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The Squeeze | 1977 | Stacy Keach, Carol White
A terrifically seamy crime thriller from British director Apted. Stacy Keach is the alcoholic ex-policeman whose search for the kidnapped…
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