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Companies: Best Movies & TV Shows/Series by Association of Cinema Technicians (A.C.T.)


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Final Appointment(1954)

1h 5min | Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...

Directed by Terence Fisher - With John Bentley, Arthur Lowe

The Kitchen(1961)

1h 14min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!

Directed by James Hill - With Carl Möhner

House of Blackmail(1953)

1h 12min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With William Sylvester

Second Fiddle(1957)

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Adrienne Corri

Dangerous Cargo(1954)

1h 1min | Crime, Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.

Directed by John Harlow - With Jack Watling

Green Grow the Rushes(1951)

1h 17min | Comedy, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

The Blue Parrot(1953)

1h 9min | Crime, Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.

Directed by John Harlow - With Dermot Walsh

The Final Test(1953)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hopes to marry.

Circumstantial Evidence(1952)

1h 1min | Crime
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?

Directed by Daniel Birt

The Diplomatic Corpse(1958)

1h 5min | Adventure, Drama, Action
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.

Directed by Montgomery Tully

Don't Panic Chaps!(1959)

1h 25min | War, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.

Directed by George Pollock - With Dennis Price

Room in the House(1955)

1h 14min | Comedy

Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Patrick Barr
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Burnt Evidence(1954)

1h 1min | Crime, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.

Dead Lucky(1960)

1h 4min | Crime
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?

The Last Man to Hang(1956)

NR
| 1h 15min | Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

The Man Upstairs(1958)

NR
| 1h 28min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.

Private Information(1952)

1h 5min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.

Directed by Fergus McDonell - With Jill Esmond

Alf's Baby(1953)

1h 15min | Comedy

Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.

Directed by Maclean Rogers - With Jerry Desmonde

The Piper's Tune(1962)

1h 2min | Kids & Family

A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.

Directed by Muriel Box - With Roberta Tovey, Nora Gordon, George Woodbridge, Sydney Bromley

Suspended Alibi(1957)

1h 1min | Thriller, Crime
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and he is accused of the crime.

Directed by Alfred Shaughnessy - With Patrick Holt

Stolen Assignment(1955)

1h 2min | Comedy, Crime
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?

Directed by Terence Fisher - With John Bentley, Patrick Holt

Night Was Our Friend(1951)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?

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