Rent Reel Love Stories: Vol.1 (1955)
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11h 41min
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10 Reel love stories...
A Tale of Five Cities (aka. A Tale of Five Women) (1951)
An Englishman has been working in the US so long, he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. After the war he travels throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory.
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
Acount of the life and loves of Mistress Peg Woffington (Anna Neagle), the actress, from her beginnings in a Dublin fair booth to fame at Drury Lane in mid-18th century.
A Woman Alone (aka. Two Who Dared) (1936)An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a maid in this previously 'lost' British film.
A Society Sensation (aka. The Borrowed Duchess) (1918)
An early Silent short on the trials and tribulations of falling in love. A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman.
The Hills of Donegal (1947)
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives it up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley) who, we soon discover, is something of a ne'er-do-well. This was John Bentley's first lead role in a long film career.
Love in High Gear (1932)
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage. Last film of Silent star Harrison Ford and his only Talkie.
Those People Next Door (aka. Wearing the Pants) (1953)
During the war, a titled family, object to their squadron leader son, being engaged to the daughter of a working class factory worker. Will love prevail?
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
War time drama. Lili (Lisa Daniely) will not marry her true Love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star.
Marilyn (aka. Roadhouse Girl) (1953)
George Saunders (Leslie Dwyer) is the middle-aged owner of a roadside garage and pub. Trouble is inevitable when his sexy young wife, Marilyn (Sandra Dorne), gets involved with Tom (Maxwell Reed), the new mechanic and together they plot the perfect future together.
A Yank in Ermine (1955)
American airman (Peter Thompson) inherits the lordship of an English village. Although he is initially reluctant, his fiance (Diana Decker) encourages him to accept it, after she hears how much the estate is worth. When he arrives in England with his two buddies (Jon Pertwee and Harold Lloyd Jr.), he falls for the daughter (Noelle Middleton) of the owner of the neighbouring estate - but she is also engaged to be married. Includes the song "Honey. You Can't Love Two", sung by Diana Decker and written by Eddie Pola and George Wyle.- Actors:
- Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon, Karin Himboldt, Lily Kann, Danny Green, Carl Jaffe, MacDonald Parke, Althea Orr, Lana Morris, Eva Bartok, Gina Lollobrigida, Geoffrey Sumner, Philip Leaver, Annette Poivre, Charles Irwin, Arthur Gomez, Dany Dauberson, Andrew Irvine, Vera Molnar
- Directors:
- Montgomery Tully, Romolo Marcellini, Emil E. Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Irma von Cube, Géza von Cziffra, Herbert Wilcox, Eugene Frenke, Edmund Mortimer, Paul Powell, John Argyle, Frank R. Strayer, John Harlow, Arthur Crabtree, Wolf Rilla, Gordon Parry
- Producers:
- Ermanno Donati, Walter Koppel, Guy Lacourt, Boris Morros, Alexander Paal, Paul Pantaléon, Géza von Cziffra, Herbert Wilcox, Robert Garrett, Otto Klement, John Argyle, Ralph M. Like, Tom Blakeley, William J. Gell, Ernest G. Roy
- Writers:
- Maurice J. Wilson, Alexander Paal, Jacques Companéez, Patrick Kirwan, Richard Llewellyn, Piero Tellini, Günther Weisenborn, Miles Malleson, Charles Reade, Tom Taylor, Warren Chetham Strode, Léo Lania, Fyodor Otsep, Hapsburg Liebe, Hope Loring, Paul Powell, Douglas Donaldson Jr., George B. Seitz, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Zelda Davees
- Aka:
- The Renown Reel Love Stories Vol 1
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance
