John Justin

Prens Ahmed, Bağdad'ın meşru kralıdır, ancak kör edilmiş ve dilenciliğe kadar düşmüştür. Büyük Vezir Cafer'in esiri olarak hapishanede Abu ile tanışır, ki Bağdad'ın en meşhur hırsızıdır Abu. Bu ikili birlikte Cafer'in hapishanesinden kaçarlar ve bir dizi ilginç maceraya atılırlar. Maceralarının arasında şişedeki cinden, uçan mekanik bir halıya, her şeyi gören büyülü bir mücevherden güzel bir prensese pek çok şeyle karşılaşmak da var... Pek çok filme ve animasyona ilham veren meşhur kült film.

A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

Valentino, 1920'lerin en büyük film yıldızıydı, erotizmin sembolüydü; kadınlar onun ayaklarına kapanır, erkekler ise ona bir kahraman gibi saygı duyardı. Kariyerinin zirvesindeyken, 1926 yılında, henüz 31 yaşındayken öldü. Filmin hikayesi Hollywood'da başlar, yıldızın cenazesine büyük bir kalabalık toplanmıştır. Sansasyon peşindeki gazeteciler, Valentino'nun hayatına tanıklık etmiş kişilere saldırır, belki birkaç ilginç hikaye öğrenebilirler diye. Bu anlatılanlar üzerinden, inanılmaz bir kariyer hikayesi ortaya çıkar: Bir dansçıdan nasıl dünyanın en büyük yıldızı haline geldiği anlatılır. Mücadeleler, aşklar, erotizm, sapkınlıklar, zulümler, skandallar, çifte evlilikler ve tutuklamalarla dolu bir hayat...

Kaliforniya yerine İngiltere'de geçen hikâye, Raymond Chandler'ın kitabını oldukça yakından takip ediyor. Yaşlı (ve ölüm döşeğinde) General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe'dan kızlarından birine yönelik bir şantaj girişimini araştırmasını ister. Kısa süre sonra girişimin en iyi ihtimalle yarım yamalak olduğunu ve diğer kızının kocası Rusty Regan'ın kaybolmasıyla daha bağlantılı olduğunu anlar. Rusty'nin karısı, kaybolmasıyla ilgilenmiyor gibi görünerek gizemi daha da karmaşık hale getirir. Mafya ve kiralık katiller soruşturmanın yoluna çıkmaya devam ederken, sadece General Sternwood endişeli görünmektedir.

Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.

In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.

Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.

Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.

An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps them prisoner after his plans to steal their jewels have been discovered.

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers the plot and he trails Kersten and Edwards to a country cottage.

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.

A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

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Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Presented by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

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