John Laurie

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Dairesinde tuhaf bir genç kız bıçaklanarak öldürülünce, Londra'da tatilini geçirmekte olan genç Kanadalı rençber Richard Hannay kendini casusluk ve cinayet içeren gizemli bir maceranın ortasında buluyor. Kız, ölümünden önce Hanney'e İngiltere'den kaçırılmakta olan çok gizli birkaç sırdan söz ediyor. Sinsi casusluk şebekesi liderinin, sağ elinin küçük parmağının bir parçasının kesik oluşundan tanınabileceğini anlatıyor, sonra da 39 Basamak'la ilgili bir şeyler söylüyor. 39 Basamağın sırrını çözmek, casus çetesini ortaya çıkarmak ve kendini cinayet suçlamasından temizlemek içinse Hanney'in sadece 48 saati vardır.

Doktorlar tuhaf bir tarzda öldürülmektedir: Yarasalar, arılar, katil kurbağa maskeleri vb. Hepsi de İncil'de yer alan dokuz vebayı temsil eden figürlerdir. Cinayetler-dilsiz asistanının da yardımıyla- delirmiş bir orgcu tarafından işlenmektedir. Olayla ilgilenen dedektif, bütün doktorların Dr.Phibes'in eşinin başarısız geçen ameliyatında Dr.Vesalius'a asistanlık yapmış olduğunu bulana dek katilin izinde kör topal ilerler. Dr. Phibes aradığı suçlu olamaz... Yoksa olabilir mi? Oysa Dr.Phibes karısının ameliyatta öldüğünü öğrendikten hemen sonra bir araba kazasında ölmüştür.

William Shakespeare'in unutulmaz eserlerinden V. Henry'nin beyazperde uyarlaması. Globe Theatre'da oynanan oyunla başlayan film, V. Henry'nin oldukça çalkantılı geçen bir gençlik sonrasında geçirdiği dönüşüm ele alınıyor. V. Henry, dağılmış İngiliz birliklerini toplayarak oldukça güç koşullara rağmen Agincourt Muharebesi'nde Fransızlara karşı zafer kazanır. Böylece başarılı bir lider ve asker olduğunu da kanıtlamış olur. Fransızlarla barış anlaşması olarak da Prenses Katherine'i kendine ister.

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.

Film, bize sıradışı bir adamın hayatını ve aşklarının hikayesini samimi bir şekilde anlatıyor. Öncelikle tam bir eski kafalılık örneği olan, aşırı kilolu general Clive Wyne-Candy ile tanışıyoruz. 40 yıl geriye gittiğimizde ise tamamen farklı bir adam, genç ve yakışıklı subay "Sugar" Candy'i görüyoruz... Hayatına girmiş üç kadınla olan ilişkilerini ve bir Alman subayı ile ömür boyu arkadaşlığını izlerken, Candy'nin hayatındaki izleri görüp onun ordu onuru anlayışını modern çağın "genel harp" mefhumuna adapte etmesinin ne kadar zor olduğunu anlıyoruz...

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

Shakespeare’in ünlü oyununun bu sinema uyarlamasında olaylar 1930’ların hayali ve faşist Londra’sında geçiyor. Ağabeyi Edward’ın yerine tahta geçmeye çalışan Richard bu yolda cinayet, evlilik ve daha bir çok yöntemden yararlanacaktır.Ancak tahta giden yolda önünde duran başka engeller de vardır: diğer kardeşi Clarence ve Edward’ın iki küçük oğlu...Bu mitsel ve çarpıcı uyarlama, son dönemde Orta Dünya’nın Gandalf’ı ve X-Men’in Magneto’su karşımıza çıkan Ian McKellen’ın yanısıra, Annette Benning gibi isimleri de bünyesinde barındırıyor.

At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.

Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.

Hamlet , William Shakespeare’in aynı adlı oyununun 1948 İngiliz uyarlamasıdır. Yönetmeni ve başrol oyuncusu Laurence Olivier’dir. Hamlet Olivier ikinci yönetmenlik deneyimidir ve aynı zamanda Shakespeare üçlemesinin ikincisidir. Olivier’in siyah-beyaz çektiği tek filmdir.

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

Londranın ileri gelen ailelerinden birinin kızı Joan Webster, nereye gittiğini bilen, aklı başında, planlı programlı bir genç hanımdır. Bu plan ve program çerçevesinde, zengin bir sanayiciyle nişanlanır ve evlenmek üzere İskoçyaya gider. Ancak yolda büyük bir fırtınaya yakalanır ve yolculuğuna ara vermek zorunda kalır. Mahsur kaldığı adada tanıştığı genç adam, kasaba sakinleri ve yaşadıkları kafasını karıştırır. Acaba gerçekten nereye gittini biliyor mudur? İngiliz sinemasının saklı cevherlerinden olan bu Powell Pressburger klasiği, sinema sanatının tüm hilelerini kullanıyor.

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, when he wants to stage a flop.

1890'lı yıllarda Victoria devri İngilteresinde geçen filmde soylu bir asker ailesinden gelmesine rağmen kişisel bazı nedenlerle savaşa gitmeyi reddeden bir adamın subay olarak orduya katılan yakın arkadaşları tarafından korkaklıkla suçlanması, genç adamın da bu haksız suçlamayı boşa çıkartmak ve cesaretini kanıtlamak içinçıktığı öyküyü anlatır.

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.

King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. Following the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.

A father and son who work as rag-and-bone men live together in Shepherd's Bush, London. While Albert is content with their way of life, Harold aspires to better himself and build a life of his own, but his attempts are repeatedly thwarted by his father, leading to frequent clashes between the two.

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.

Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.

The series adapted for television some true tales from press correspondents from around the world.

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the series as an entry in the 1969-70 TV season but pushed it back to the 1970-71 season as a mid-season replacement. The series followed two International Airlines stewardesses, a scatterbrained Briton and a savvy American, as they flew the London-European routes. The series ran for 16 25-minute colour episodes. The series was not a big success in either the UK or the US, but ITC re-used the format for the Shirley MacLaine series Shirley's World. That show also flopped, but ran to one more episode than From a Bird's Eye View.

An anthology series with the premise that there is a story behind every door.

Toby Jones presents a set of must-see Dad's Army moments from the BBC's archives, including Mainwaring dancing and sparring with Morecambe and Wise and a special tribute to Noel Coward.

Former spy Richard Hannay is drawn out of retirement to stop a criminal conspiracy involving hypnotism and blackmail. A sinister organisation kidnaps the children of prominent figures to manipulate global affairs, forcing Hannay to confront the deviously charismatic Dominick Medina in a battle of wits and psychological warfare.

Adaptation of Aldous Huxley's novel, following the personal and spiritual progress of Anthony Beavis in the years between the world wars.

Tales of Mystery was a British supernatural television drama anthology series based on the short stories of Algernon Blackwood. It was broadcast by ITV and ran over three seasons from 1961-1963. Produced by Peter Graham Scott, each episode was 25 minutes long and introduced by John Laurie. None of the 29 episodes broadcast survive in any television archive, however.