John Gilling

John Gilling

John Gilling (29 May 1912 – 22 November 1984) was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was chiefly known for his horror films, especially for Hammer Films, for whom he directed Shadow of the Cat (1961), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966) (the latter two filmed back to back in Cornwall) and The Mummy's Shroud, among others. He is also renown for many low to mid budget detective films and teleplays with unexpected touches of comedy blended in.                      Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gilling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.                    

  • Title: John Gilling
  • Popularity: 2.842
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1912-05-29
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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John Gilling Movies

  • 2007
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    The Vatican Museums

    The Vatican Museums

    1 2007 HD

    Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in celebration of the Jubilee of the Year of Our Lord...

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  • 1954
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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    5 1954 HD

    A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!

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  • 1951
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    The Quiet Woman

    The Quiet Woman

    5.8 1951 HD

    The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she...

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  • 1950
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    No Trace

    No Trace

    6.5 1950 HD

    A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

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  • 1964
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    The Gorgon

    The Gorgon

    6.3 1964 HD

    In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The...

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  • 1964
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    The Secret of Blood Island

    The Secret of Blood Island

    1 1964 HD

    Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a...

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  • 1961
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    The Shadow of the Cat

    The Shadow of the Cat

    6.8 1961 HD

    Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress....

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  • 1966
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    The Plague of the Zombies

    The Plague of the Zombies

    6.3 1966 HD

    Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of...

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  • 1966
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    The Reptile

    The Reptile

    6 1966 HD

    Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by...

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  • 1963
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    Panic

    Panic

    5.7 1963 HD

    In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her...

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  • 1963
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    Panic

    Panic

    5.7 1963 HD

    In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her...

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  • 1960
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    The Challenge

    The Challenge

    5.3 1960 HD

    Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

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  • 1960
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    The Challenge

    The Challenge

    5.3 1960 HD

    Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

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  • 1956
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    The Gamma People

    The Gamma People

    5.1 1956 HD

    An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children...

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  • 1956
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    The Gamma People

    The Gamma People

    5.1 1956 HD

    An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children...

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  • 1965
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    The Night Caller

    The Night Caller

    5.3 1965 HD

    The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst...

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  • 1957
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    Interpol

    Interpol

    6.4 1957 HD

    Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles...

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  • 1967
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    The Mummy's Shroud

    The Mummy's Shroud

    5.5 1967 HD

    Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they...

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  • 1950
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    No Trace

    No Trace

    6.5 1950 HD

    A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

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  • 1960
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    The Flesh and the Fiends

    The Flesh and the Fiends

    6.5 1960 HD

    Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find...

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  • 1960
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    The Flesh and the Fiends

    The Flesh and the Fiends

    6.5 1960 HD

    Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find...

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  • 1960
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    The Flesh and the Fiends

    The Flesh and the Fiends

    6.5 1960 HD

    Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find...

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  • 1952
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    The Voice of Merrill

    The Voice of Merrill

    5.9 1952 HD

    A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to...

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  • 1952
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    The Voice of Merrill

    The Voice of Merrill

    5.9 1952 HD

    A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to...

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  • 1963
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    The Scarlet Blade

    The Scarlet Blade

    5.5 1963 HD

    A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love...

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  • 1965
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    The Brigand of Kandahar

    The Brigand of Kandahar

    5.3 1965 HD

    1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen...

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  • 1950
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    Guilt Is My Shadow

    Guilt Is My Shadow

    5.2 1950 HD

    A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.

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  • 1962
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    The Pirates of Blood River

    The Pirates of Blood River

    6.2 1962 HD

    A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain...

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  • 1962
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    The Pirates of Blood River

    The Pirates of Blood River

    6.2 1962 HD

    A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain...

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  • 1953
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    Recoil

    Recoil

    5.5 1953 HD

    A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go...

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  • 1953
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    Recoil

    Recoil

    5.5 1953 HD

    A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go...

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  • 1956
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    Bond of Fear

    Bond of Fear

    5.5 1956 HD

    An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.

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  • 1952
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    Wings of Danger

    Wings of Danger

    5.214 1952 HD

    A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for...

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  • 1975
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    Cross of the Devil

    Cross of the Devil

    5.3 1975 HD

    A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of...

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  • 1975
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    Cross of the Devil

    Cross of the Devil

    5.3 1975 HD

    A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of...

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  • 1952
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    The Frightened Man

    The Frightened Man

    6.2 1952 HD

    Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

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  • 1952
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    The Frightened Man

    The Frightened Man

    6.2 1952 HD

    Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

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  • 1956
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    Odongo

    Odongo

    5 1956 HD

    Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and...

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  • 1958
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    The Man Inside

    The Man Inside

    6.2 1958 HD

    A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.

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  • 1950
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    Dark Interval

    Dark Interval

    1 1950 HD

    A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it...

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  • 1952
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    Blind Man's Bluff

    Blind Man's Bluff

    1 1952 HD

    Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results...

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  • 1953
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    Deadly Nightshade

    Deadly Nightshade

    6.2 1953 HD

    Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

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  • 1954
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    The Embezzler

    The Embezzler

    6 1954 HD

    Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

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  • 1954
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    The Embezzler

    The Embezzler

    6 1954 HD

    Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

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  • 1959
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    The Bandit Of Zhobe

    The Bandit Of Zhobe

    1 1959 HD

    British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.

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  • 1952
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    Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

    Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

    4.2 1952 HD

    The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to...

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  • 1953
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    3 Steps to the Gallows

    3 Steps to the Gallows

    6.3 1953 HD

    A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

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  • 1955
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    The Gilded Cage

    The Gilded Cage

    5.2 1955 HD

    Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's...

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  • 1966
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    Where the Bullets Fly

    Where the Bullets Fly

    4.5 1966 HD

    In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,

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  • 1966
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    Where the Bullets Fly

    Where the Bullets Fly

    4.5 1966 HD

    In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,

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  • 1957
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    High Flight

    High Flight

    5.8 1957 HD

    The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.

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  • 1948
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    House of Darkness

    House of Darkness

    5 1948 HD

    In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition...

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  • 1961
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    Fury at Smugglers' Bay

    Fury at Smugglers' Bay

    4.6 1961 HD

    It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores....

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  • 1959
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    Idol on Parade

    Idol on Parade

    7 1959 HD

    A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

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  • 1951
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    The Rossiter Case

    The Rossiter Case

    5.8 1951 HD

    The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his...

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  • 1947
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    Black Memory

    Black Memory

    4.5 1947 HD

    Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld....

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  • 1951
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    The Quiet Woman

    The Quiet Woman

    5.8 1951 HD

    The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she...

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  • 1950
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    The Lady Craved Excitement

    The Lady Craved Excitement

    5.2 1950 HD

    A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

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  • 1948
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    The Greed of William Hart

    The Greed of William Hart

    4.9 1948 HD

    Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still...

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  • 1948
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    The Greed of William Hart

    The Greed of William Hart

    4.9 1948 HD

    Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still...

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  • 1936
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    Wings over Africa

    Wings over Africa

    6 1936 HD

    Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the...

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  • 1948
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    Escape from Broadmoor

    Escape from Broadmoor

    5.5 1948 HD

    A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.

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  • 1948
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    Escape from Broadmoor

    Escape from Broadmoor

    5.5 1948 HD

    A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.

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  • 1949
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    Old Mother Riley's New Venture

    Old Mother Riley's New Venture

    1 1949 HD

    Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.

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  • 1956
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    Odongo

    Odongo

    5 1956 HD

    Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and...

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  • 1953
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    Escape by Night

    Escape by Night

    6 1953 HD

    An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

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  • 1953
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    Escape by Night

    Escape by Night

    6 1953 HD

    An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

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  • 1965
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    The Brigand of Kandahar

    The Brigand of Kandahar

    5.3 1965 HD

    1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen...

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  • 1970
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    Trog

    Trog

    4.4 1970 HD

    Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical...

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  • 1952
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    Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

    Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

    4.2 1952 HD

    The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to...

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  • 1952
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    Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard

    Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard

    6 1952 HD

    Mystery directed by Francis Searle.

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  • 1952
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    Murder at the Grange

    Murder at the Grange

    6 1952 HD

    A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns...

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  • 1949
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    A Matter of Murder

    A Matter of Murder

    5 1949 HD

    An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.

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  • 1953
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    3 Steps to the Gallows

    3 Steps to the Gallows

    6.3 1953 HD

    A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

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  • 1959
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    Killers of Kilimanjaro

    Killers of Kilimanjaro

    6 1959 HD

    An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While...

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  • 1950
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    Blackout

    Blackout

    5.2 1950 HD

    A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.

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  • 1955
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    Tiger by the Tail

    Tiger by the Tail

    5.6 1955 HD

    On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...

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  • 1960
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    The Challenge

    The Challenge

    5.3 1960 HD

    Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

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  • 1952
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    13 East Street

    13 East Street

    5.2 1952 HD

    When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewelry store, gets...

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  • 1967
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    The Mummy's Shroud

    The Mummy's Shroud

    5.5 1967 HD

    Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they...

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  • 1952
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    King of the Underworld

    King of the Underworld

    4.5 1952 HD

    A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series...

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  • 1963
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    The Scarlet Blade

    The Scarlet Blade

    5.5 1963 HD

    A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love...

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  • 1948
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    A Gunman Has Escaped

    A Gunman Has Escaped

    6 1948 HD

    In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm...

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  • 1955
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    Tiger by the Tail

    Tiger by the Tail

    5.6 1955 HD

    On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...

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  • 1950
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    Room to Let

    Room to Let

    6 1950 HD

    In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.

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  • 1954
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    Profile

    Profile

    5.7 1954 HD

    The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well. Then...

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  • 1952
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    The Big Frame

    The Big Frame

    3.8 1952 HD

    An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

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  • 1954
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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    5 1954 HD

    A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!

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  • 1949
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    The Man from Yesterday

    The Man from Yesterday

    1 1949 HD

    A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up...

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  • 1949
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    The Man from Yesterday

    The Man from Yesterday

    1 1949 HD

    A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up...

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  • 1949
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    A Matter of Murder

    A Matter of Murder

    5 1949 HD

    An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.

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  • 1953
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    The Steel Key

    The Steel Key

    5.5 1953 HD

    An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

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  • 1959
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    The Bandit Of Zhobe

    The Bandit Of Zhobe

    1 1959 HD

    British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.

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  • 1950
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    The Man in Black

    The Man in Black

    5.5 1950 HD

    Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He...

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  • 1961
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    Fury at Smugglers' Bay

    Fury at Smugglers' Bay

    4.6 1961 HD

    It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores....

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  • 1961
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    Fury at Smugglers' Bay

    Fury at Smugglers' Bay

    4.6 1961 HD

    It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores....

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  • 1970
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    7.296 1970 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

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  • 1970
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    7.296 1970 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1970
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    7.296 1970 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

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