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Double bill of crime dramas from the 1950's.

Naked Fury (1959)

Whilst robbing a bank, four men kill a night watchman and take his daughter hostage - they hold her in an old warehouse. One of the robbers (Kenneth Cope) of "Randall and Hopkirk" and "Coronation St" fame falls for the girl (Leigh Madison) but that only causes squabbles and fighting between the four.
Mark of the Phoenix (1957)
Directed by Maclean Rogers, this 1957 Butchers production is a great little Crime Drama. A sample of an advanced new metal is stolen and made into a cigarette case for smuggling to the East. Caught up in the plot, international Jewell thief (Sheldon Lawrence) is then pursued by East and West...

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Renowned anthropologist Professor Sir Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) boards the Trans-Siberian Express with a peculiar cargo - a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid which, he believes, may prove to be the missing link in human evolution.

The professor is soon to discover that he is wildly mistaken, however, as the creature promptly thaws out and reveals itself to be the host of an alien being capable of jumping from passenger to passenger.

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Double bill of British crime dramas.

The Flaw (1955)

Directed by Terence Fisher of Hammer fame, this 1955 British production stars John Bentley, Donald Houston and Rona Anderson. In this crime drama, racing car driver Raul Oliveri (John Bentley) plans to murder his wife for the insurance money. Her attorney, who is in love with her, discovers the plan - a brutal fight culminates in tragedy for one of the two combatants. Great old motor racing sequences and filmed in Shoreham, East Sussex.
Witness in the Dark (1959)
This second feature stars Patricia Dainton as a blind girl who "witnesses" the thief turned murderer of her upstairs friend and neighbour. Also stars Conrad Phillips and Nigel Green.

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In this electrifying thriller, social order collapses as humanity confronts a double catastrophe. The majority of people have been blinded in a freak solar storm leaving them at the mercy of opportunists who still have their sight.

Meanwhile the Triffids are evolving and advancing on the towns in search of human prey. In the face of total human annihilation, it is down to a select few to take a stand against mankind's deadliest adversary, a foe with a fatal sting and an unquenchable taste for human flesh.

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"Last Breath" is an emotionally charged action thriller telling the incredible true story of Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), a commercial diver who after a freak accident is trapped on the bottom of the North Sea.

With only 10 minutes of emergency oxygen and any hope of rescue over half an hour away, this is one man's impossible fight for survival 300 feet underwater, while up above his colleagues battle against a raging storm and do everything they can to bring him back alive.

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You're invited to one of the most celebrated and audaciously funny hit comedies of the year - Muriel's Wedding! Follow frumpy, misguided Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) on her lifelong quest for a glitzy fairy-tale wedding.

With visions of nuptials dancing in her head, this ABBA-obsessed misfit ditches her pathetic life and plastic friends in a small Australian suburb for big-city dreams in Sydney. But the road to the altar takes surprising twists and turns - and Muriel is about to learn the lesson of a lifetime. Wry, witty and hailed by critics everywhere, 'Muriel's Wedding' is one affair you don't want to miss.

Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) was born with a rare genetic disorder where he can't feel any pain. When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is taken hostage in a bank heist, he turns his inability to feel physical pain into an unexpected strength in the fight to get her back.

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Operation Diplomat (1953)

Like 'Portait of Alison' and 'The Broken Horseshoe' this thriller was originally made as a BBC television drama, and was based on a story by popular crime writer Francis Durbridge. Forced to work on a mystery patient, surgeon Mark Fenton (Guy Rolfe) finds the police do not believe his story...
The Sicilians (1964)
An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a mafia boss...

Black Bag is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and his beloved wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). When she is suspected of betraying the nation. George faces the ultimate test-loyalty to his marriage or his country.

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This film was the first directorial role for Academy Award Winning Director Guy Green OBE BSC. In this 1954 Insigna Production, full of gritty London Locations, Judy (Phyllis Kirk) is a radio operator aboard an American ship, who is duped into smuggling diamonds.

Held by customs, Judy is in further trouble as the man who duped her is found dead in the river. Detective Inspector Dan Barker (John Bentley) helps Judy by tracing the receiver of the diamonds.

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Starring Anne Hathaway in a provocative leading role, 'Havoc' is the riveting tale about youths with a taste for the forbidden. They were done with playing it safe. When Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) leave their rich, affluent neighbourhood for a joyride through East L.

A they gain a glimpse of a dangerous landscape involving drugs, sex and gang brutality. As their fear quickly turns to infatuation, Allison and Emily find themselves seduced by a dark and dangerous world and in a situation they may not be able to get out of.

"The Alto Knights" follows two of New York's most notorious organised crime bosses, Frank Costello (Robert De Niro / Luke Stanton Eddy) and Vito Genovese (also Robert De Niro / Antonio Cipriano), and how their separate paths to power place them on a deadly collision course.

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It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas), gather relations and friends for a weekend shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group.

As the guests assemble in the gilded drawing rooms above their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in the teeming kitchens and corridors below-stairs. But all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejeweled guests lunching and dining at their enormous leisure, nor in the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labour for the comfort of their employers. Part comedy of manners and part mystery, the film is finally a moving portrait of events that bridge generations, class, sex, tragic personal history - and culminate in a murder. Or is it two murders…?

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From the director of 'The Ring' comes this psychological thriller and "Fantastically Creepy Experience" about an ambitious young executive sent to retrieve his company's CEO from a remote and mysterious Wellness Centre.

When he begins to unravel the retreat's terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests there longing for the cure.

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Renee Zellweger returns as Bridget. Now a widowed single mother, must juggle work, parenthood and romance.

With the help of her loyal friends, Bridget navigates encounters with a younger man and a series of awkward interactions with her son's science teacher – as she strives to forge a new path toward life and love.