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- DirectorRalph SmartStarsChips RaffertyJohn FernsideStan TolhurstIn Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
- DirectorCecil MuskStarsJames KenneyFlorence StephensonGeorge StephensonAn excellent swimmer, Michael Scott is chosen to represent his school at a swimming competition but his nerves unfortunately fail him and he does not stand on the podium. His parents try to comfort him but in vain. His mother, a former circus artist, then urges him to accept an invitation to spend a month at the big top where she once worked. Mrs Prada, Mrs. Scott's former partner, has indeed invited the boy to join her and her two children and to share their lives during this time. Michael finally accepts and soon makes friends with Florence and George. Brother and sister are currently training for a funambulist act. Interested in their specialty, Michel starts learning how to walk on a tightrope too.
- DirectorWalter C. MycroftStarsTerence AlexanderMolly WeirOlivia BarleyBiopic of Robbie Burns with a lot of Scottish singing. Heavy on narrative.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsEric PortmanGreta GyntDennis PriceA businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.
- DirectorLionel TomlinsonStarsDon StannardElsa TeeVeronica RoseThere's a death by poisoning at a Bond St. fashion house. The designer, the owner, the models and even the tea lady all have secrets to hide, but who's hiding a murderous one?
- DirectorDarrell CatlingStarsBillie BrooksAnthony NewleyMichael McKeagDusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by lowlifes when the crate is put ashore.
- DirectorDigby SmithStarsBeresford EganMarianne StoneLily Lapidus
- DirectorDenis KavanaghStarsJoan VerneyMavis Cooper
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsRobert BeattyCarol RayeNova PilbeamA fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsMargaret LockwoodDennis PriceCecil ParkerStory of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMargaret LockwoodPatricia RocDennis PriceIn 17th century England, Jassy is believed to be a witch because she has visions of approaching disasters. After Barney Hatton, an impoverished gent whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him get his property back - but at any price?
- DirectorVal GuestStarsJohn PoweMuriel AkedHugh CrossWilliam and "the Nites of the Square Table" haunt a house - the plan is complicated by fur rustlers.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsWilliam EytheStanley HollowayHazel CourtA young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He's hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she's the daughter of the paper's proprietor.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsPeter GravesJoyce HowardLeslie BanksThe tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
- DirectorBrock WilliamsStarsPhyllis CalvertMichael RennieJohn McCallumA girl from an impoverished family is jilted by her rich fiancé, whose father doesn't approve. She decides to take revenge against them, and determines to let nothing or no one stop her from getting to the top.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJohn MillsMartha ScottPatricia RocMayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.
- DirectorHenry C. JamesJan SikorskiStarsPercy MarmontPat MainwaringA young couple tour Switzerland on their honeymoon.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsHugh WilliamsGreta GyntLeo BieberPhilippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonSimone SimonWilliam HartnellA signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which he later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.
- DirectorDerek N. TwistStarsSabuBibi FerreiraEsmond KnightA South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. The story of how this happened and how he got into trouble is told in flashback.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsRobert MorleyFelix AylmerYvonne ArnaudGhosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch,
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentJoan GreenwoodTold in flashback, this movie opens with a scene of a seventeen-year-old boy, Francis Andrews (Sir Richard Attenborough), being brutally lashed during a police interrogation, in which the boy thinks back to what placed him in this situation. He betrayed the crew of a smuggling ship whose master, Richard Carlyon (Sir Michael Redgrave), was also his guardian. Some of the smugglers are caught, but Carlyon escapes, and then begins his search for Andrews. Carlyon was quite fond of the boy, but knew him for a coward. Andrews seeks refuge in in the cottage of a girl named Elizabeth (Joan Greenwood), who urges him to give testimony against the smugglers in court. He summons his courage and does so. Carlyon, catching up with Andrews, recognizes this as an act of courage, and does not take revenge on him. Carlyon is eventually caught, but despite the police torture, Andrews does not identify him, and he goes free, while his guardian faces the gallows.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsEric PortmanSally GrayPatrick HoltAn attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one.
- DirectorDenis KavanaghStarsValentine DyallAnne HowardAlec FavershamA doctor is summoned to an old dark house to rid it of evil spirits.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsJohn StuartOlga LindoHoward Marion-CrawfordA hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
- DirectorWilliam C. HammondStarsTony WagerIvor BowyerMurray MathesonTwo boys thwart the efforts of antique smugglers at a British estate.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsJames MasonRosamund JohnPamela MasonA British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMargaret LockwoodJoan GreenwoodIan HunterIn a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
- DirectorJack LeeStarsUrsula JeansJean SimmonsCecil ParkerA poor widow with two daughters augments her income by using her children to extort money. Visiting the houses of the rich people, they tell a sad story and beg for help. Then she meets a wealthy man who proposes marriage to her.
- DirectorCharles FrankStarsJean SimmonsDerrick De MarneyKatina PaxinouFollowing her father's death, a teenage British heiress goes to live with her guardian uncle--who is broke and schemes to murder her for her inheritance.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsBarbara WhiteRonald SquireBrenda BruceLady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. On her way to marry her fiancé, she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsJames HarcourtPatric CurwenPeter BullGreat Britain a few years after World War 2. A writer is asked by the government to write a youth story to boost the morale of the youth after the difficult war years. At first he is a bit hesitant, but when the characters appear one by one, the story grows before his and our eyes. The boys set off, accompanied by an older man with a horse and trailer. What they don't know is that the man, posing as a market vendor, is actually out to expose a criminal. A charming youth film with little ambition, which also casually shows us the London of that time, both what survived and what was destroyed by the war.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsDouglass MontgomeryJoyce HowardAdele DixonAn amnesiac lands up adopting his forgotten daughter from a previous girlfriend, a dancer, when his wife is unable to have children.
- DirectorAlfred TraversStarsHerbert LomPhyllis DixeyTerence de MarneyTwin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsDouglas BarrBilly ThatcherBrian WeskeYoung Peter wants so badly to be an engineer that he starts to work on an invention. To raise money, he and his friend Tim wash windows. However, Tim needs the money they earn to go to Ireland to visit his grandfather who is very ill, so Peter gives him all the money they have made. Everything works out well for Peter in the end when he is praised as a young genius.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsYvonne MarshMarian ChapmanKay HendersonA young girl has an ambition to dance with the famous Sadlers Wells troupe but first she must win a scholarship. Includes a performance of Les Sylphides by Margot Fonteyn.