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A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island

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

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a string of mysterious deaths with no apparent causes and the case of a missing German Prince that could cause war between England and Germany

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor

Mr Parker Sir John Mills, a farmer who has the reputation of drinking most of his money away, lives on a farm which is in a poor state of repair A pretty young girl, Dulcima Gaskain Carol White, takes pity on him and decides

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks How can they be rescued before they run out of air

After World War II, a Highland Regiments acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace time Oxford educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades

Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesnt want to pay settlements, so theyll just have to outsmart him

A young girl is travelling to London to find work Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order

Jellicle cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy One cat will be chosen to go to the Heavyside Layer and be reborn The cats introduce themselves

Its heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music making Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so

An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed, spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self sacrifice as an example of love and grows into a better person

This story of a ship, the British destroyer H M S Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war

Allied prisoners British, Dutch, French and Polish pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the escape proof German P O W camp housed in a Medieval castle known as Colditz

Jellicle cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy One cat will be chosen to go to the Heavyside Layer and be reborn The cats introduce themselves

The history and resurgence of the electronic modular music synthesizer

During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer whos after romance

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle Faye Dunaway, aided by her father Sir John Mills and a hobo George C Scott, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Forces 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany

In a small Mexican town, a Catholic priest Sir John Mills and a local bandit Sir Dirk Bogarde clash, but the brave priest ultimately wins the outlaws respect

When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German actress that he had just met at London Airport murdered in his flat It leads him into the world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam

A twelve year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation

During World War II, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence

A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier

Adam Beau Bridges is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool He is sentenced to death by hanging, but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement

While trying to solve a series of murders, a possessive narcotics detective hires a hit man to kill his unfaithful wife, but the hunter and the hunted soon begin an affair

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria

The bumbling Mr Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum

In WW2 London, a writer falls in love with the wife of a British civil servant but both men suspect her of infidelity with yet another man

Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site

In 1941, in wartime U K , two Irish brothers working for the I R A come against their local leaders ruthless methods

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scotts 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole