Charles Crichton

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Hue and Cry
Hue and Cry
(G)
1947
Joe Kirby is courageous, imaginative and craves the type of excitement he reads about in the pages of his favourite comic serial, The Trump. To his surprise and delight, he soon discovers that a criminal mastermind has been using The Trump as a means to communicate instructions to his gang of thieves. Together with his posse of rambunctious mates, Joe tracks down the crooks- but he's not letting them off without a fight!
Hue and Cry
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1947
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Dead Of Night
Dead Of Night
(M)
1945
While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts certain events will happen as they do in his dreams and when they do, the other guests relate their own experiences with the supernatural, including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy and an eerie premonition of death. Throughout the group meeting, the protagonist fears...
Dead Of Night
Dead Of Night (M)

 

1945
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The Battle of the Sexes
The Battle of the Sexes
(G)
1959
Peter Sellers early comedy classic! Peter Sellers in one of his best early roles, plays the wry, mild-mannered Mr Martin, the lifetime employee of a Scottish tweed company who is moved to murder when the firm is taken over by brash American woman. Stars Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape, You Only Live Twice), and Robert Morley (The African Queen).
The Battle of the Sexes
The Battle of the Sexes (G)

 

1959
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The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob
(PG)
1951
Sir Alec Guinness received his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for his delightful performance as Henry Holland, a meek clerk who devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But when Henry and his odd accomplice (Stanley Holloway) melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers to smuggle into France, their perfect crime becomes a disastrous caper of Cockney crooks, customs chaos and an ill-timed group of British schoolgirls, all leading to some of the most hilarious and unexpected surprises in criminal history.
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob (PG)

 

1951
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A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda
(M)
1988
Barrister Archie (John Cleese) falls in love and tosses off more than his wig for sexy thief Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) - who can charm the pants off anyone! To make things worse, Wanda is already using her charms on fellow partner-in-crime Otto (Kevin Kline in an Oscar-winning performance), a dim-witted, intellectual psychopath who thinks the London Underground is a political movement! Meanwhile, Otto is making eyes at henchman Ken (Michael Palin), an animal loving multiple dog-killer, who is infatuated with a fish...called Wanda. Get the picture? A British comedy gem, A Fish Called Wanda "takes a spot as one of the funniest romantic comedies of the decade" (Boxoffice).

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A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda (M)

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1988

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