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- A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.
- Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.
- After concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem. she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday she meets Kit Firth, a pilot on leave whose vision has been impaired due to a bomb explosion while he was on active service. Kit is searching for a rare mineral Britian needs in the war effort. Following an explosion at the local tin mine, Kit and several others are trapped, but due to his knowledge of the mine workings, he leads the others to safety. But his greatest challenge is to come, when he has to undergo an operation, that hopefully may keep him from going blind. This operation has a slim chance of being successful. This video is available in VHS PAL format under the series named, "The Margaret Lockwood Collection".
- A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
- In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
- In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.
- A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.
- The marketing department of a pharmaceutical company decides to find a dentist to endorse its brand of toothpaste.
- When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
- A new World War 2 destroyer fails its sea trials so it is assigned to mail runs, but the crew ends up having to engage Japanese planes and a submarine anyway.
- When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France with no fuel and supplies and must resort to desperate actions to return home.
- A prisoner transport bus hijacked to free one inmate. Other prisoners locked in petrol-soaked barn, warned not to escape. Police find freed prisoner dead in crash, race to find bus and prisoners before barn catches fire.
- Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
- A mail bag stolen in a robbery 15 years ago, is found and the post office decide that the letters should be delivered. A newspaper reporter, accompanied by a post office security officer decide to follow up several of the letters, that could change the lives of the recipients.
- A South African gold mine foreman is unwittingly manipulated by an unscrupulous gang of financiers who want to flood the mine to raise the price of gold on the world market.
- The return of the Huggett family. After first meeting the family at the Holiday Camp, this is on the home front. The Huggetts are about to have their first telephone installed. In today's high technology age, it is an interesting look at the late 40s, when all this was brand new.
- Ray Milland directed himself as a barrister whose daughter is killed in a "hit-and-run" accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as a murderer.
- A gang plans to steal a factory's wages, but an armored van foils them. They rob anyway, killing the driver. His vengeful wife and encroaching police make the gang betray each other.
- Bob Grove needs building materials to finish a housing estate job. His son illegally obtains them. The council discovers this and calls the police. The Groves try to resolve the situation before the housing estate grand opening.
- The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
- British propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
- A British petty criminal lies to his son about his frequent prison terms by inventing honorable plausible explanations for his absences from home, but things get complicated when his son becomes a judge's assistant.
- A new registrar, with a revolutionary heart lung machine he has bought from America, joins a small county hospital, and has to win over his colleagues, including the senior house surgeon, and the doctor who had anticipated getting the registrar's appointment. In a series of operations, an older patient, dies on the table, and a young boy has to undergo a urgent hole in the heart operation.
- Several individuals consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run, a country vicar and a newspaper reporter sent by his editor to do an undercover story.
- A young woman called into service at a factory during World War II falls in love with a member of the RAF.
- After the Government decides to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. The Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. The police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
- After writing/publishing a book about a real murder trial, Charles returns to his college to teach creative writing - art of the thriller. 1st essay assigned: plan a perfect murder. Later someone uses it for murder.
- David Preston, a bank official, goes missing for twenty-four hours and has no memory of the lost time. When he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered, Preston finds he has no alibi. The police want him to account for the lost hours.
- War hero George Martin escapes prison handcuffed to crook Willie Stannard. They obtain railway tickets. Pursued by police and press, George aims to break free from Willie and escape.
- In London, a wealthy playboy, an American adventurer, a small-time thief and a retired safe-cracker team-up to rob a foreign embassy's safe by digging a tunnel from the London Underground into the embassy's cellar.
- Richard Logan, a safe maker, wakes up with amnesia after being found unconscious. A detective hired by his wife was murdered. A safe his firm installed was robbed. Logan teams up with his wife to uncover the truth behind these events.
- Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
- It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
- During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom while the crooks escape. Later when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up..
- Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and his nurse Hazel Broome, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run-in with the army and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village during World War II.
- Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have all been given the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles: now he must find a way of changing the notes so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
- In 1962 London, four troublesome teenagers are charged by the police with robbing a garage and murdering the night watchman.
- A naive Scotsman buys a vintage sports car and learns to drive in order to impress the daughter of an arrogant aristocrat who despises him.
- A writer eloping with his mistress by train has second thoughts, pulls the emergency brake, bails out and witnesses the train's collision with another train, events eventually leading to murder and a police manhunt.
- Ex regimental commander Colonel Merton catches one of his former NCOs burgling his house and investigates to find the reason behind this desperate act.
- When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
- After being released from prison, Augie Cortona sets up a blackmail operation, fronted by a model agency. When the authorities get wind of his activities, they send in an undercover police woman, but when she is recognised, the police need to move in on the operation, before Cortona can take his revenge.
- Dianna Taylor and Michael Moore are two authors, who have a book and a film to publicize, try and out do each other by planning the perfect murder. Things start to go wrong when their publisher, who has them under an iron clad contract, is murdered using one of Michael's plot lines. Michael has an alibi, but one by one, the main characters are being killed off, and the police are still no closer to finding out the truth.
- During a steam engine race, an American airline firm plans to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the designer and the daughter of the Airline owner take an instant dislike to each other after a crash.
- A mother struggles to maintain normalcy at home as D-Day nears. With lodgers, absent children in the Navy, and no war job, she questions her choice to remain a housewife when her son's ship is damaged.
- At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.
- George Pearson, who works for a underwear firm that is 20 years out of date, invests his own money in a new type of thread. The company are not interested in changes, and he quits. Later the firm discover that the thread has revolutionized the garment industry, they move quickly, to hire him back, before the opposition hear the news, and make him a better offer.
- Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Johnnoe is investigating a string of bank robberies but the robbers are determined to compromise Johnnoe and the investigation.
- When John Harris's daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses permission, and the child dies. When the inquest clears Harris of all blame, the doctor in charge of the case tries to get the police to press manslaughter charges against Harris.
- After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Coates insists that she didn't come home after the big race, but the police begin to suspect him, after a train ticket is found in his coat. About to be arrested, he receives help from an unexpected source.