Rent The Renown Pictures Crime Collection: Vol.3 (1959)
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10h 58min
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Renown Pictures are delighted to present 'The Renown Crime Collection: Volume 3', with 10 fabulous vintage crime drama films in a superb set. The collection includes the following:
Blackout (1950)
Maxwell Reed plays a blind man who stumbles over a dead body and whose sight is restored as a result of being bashed over the head! Look out for Campbell Singer as the police inspector and Austrian actor Eric Pohlmann who often played shady night club owners.
Johnny on the Spot (1954)
A framed ex-convict struggles to clear his name.
13 East Street (1952)When police inspector Gerald Blake (Patrick Holt) wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewellery store, gets caught and is sentenced to prison.
Mystery at Monstein (1954)
Short British film surrounding a mysterious death in The Alps and a large inheritance.
Web of Evidence (1959)
A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
When London Sleeps (1932)
Slippery Rodney Haines (Francis L. Sullivan) runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London, Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs.The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth (Harold French), whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary (Rene Ray), the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
The Lost Hours (1952)
During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent.The next day the pilot wakes up in a strange hotel room with blood on his suit, and can't remember how he got there.Then he discovers that the friend he fought with the night before has been murdered, and he is a prime suspect.
The Passing Stranger (1954)
Jill (Diane Cilento) works at a roadside cafe for truckers with her protective and plain sister, Meg (Olive Gregg). Trucker Fred (Duncan Lamont), a solid but rather unperceptive bloke, wants Jill to be his but she's hesitant, seeking a way to spread her wings and escape the dreary and constricted life she has. Chick (Lee Patterson) is an American soldier who also wants to escape. After participating in a robbery of arms on the army base, he's a wanted man. He arrives at the cafe hidden in the back of Fred's truck.
The Hostage (1956)
A South American revolutionary is facing death for murder, but the President's daughter in London is taken hostage.
The End of the Line (1957)
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.- Actors:
- Hugh McDermott, Elspet Gray, Paul Carpenter, Jean Lodge, Ronald Adam, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Conrad Phillips, Vanda Godsell, Douglas Herald, Graham Stark, Adrienne Scott, Cameron Hall, Patrick Connor, Bruce Beeby, Frederick Schrecker, Edgar Driver, Patrick Jordan, Pauline Olsen, Larry Taylor
- Directors:
- MacLean Rogers, Robert S. Baker, Joe Mendoza, Jack Cardiff, Leslie S. Hiscott, David MacDonald, John Arnold, Harold Huth, Charles Saunders
- Producers:
- Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Edwin J. Fancey, John Croydon, Humphrey Swingler, Maxwell Setton, John R. Sloan, Julius Hagen, Ian Gibson-Smith, Anthony Simmons, Thomas Clyde, Guido Coen
- Voiced By:
- Peter Illing
- Narrated By:
- Peter Illing
- Writers:
- Michael Cronin, MacLean Rogers, John Gilling, A.J. Cronin, Robert S. Baker, John Arnold, Anthony Simmons, Carl Nystrom, Ken Taylor, Kenneth Hyde, Charles Darrell, H. Fowler Mear, Bernard Merivale, Steve Fisher, Guy Morgan, Alfred Shaughnessy, Paul Erickson
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
