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Dead of Night (1945) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Dead of Night
director: Charles Crichton / Robert Hamer actor: Mervyn Johns / Roland Culver
other title: Incubi notturni / Nattens Mysterier
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Spellbound (1945) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData
Spellbound
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Ingrid Bergman / Gregory Peck
other title: Io ti salverò / Troldbunden
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
The Wrecker (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Wrecker
director: Géza von Bolváry actor: Carlyle Blackwell / Benita Hume
other title: Der Würger
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
Train of Events (1949) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Train of Events
director: Sidney Cole / Charles Crichton actor: Jack Warner / Gladys Henson
other title: Le Train du destin
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Went the Day Well? (1942) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Went the Day Well?
director: Alberto Cavalcanti actor: Leslie Banks / Elizabeth Allan
other title: E' andata bene la giornata? / Went the day well?
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
The Halfway House (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Halfway House
director: Basil Dearden actor: Mervyn Johns / Glynis Johns
other title: L'Auberge Fantôme / The Half-Way House
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
Whisky Galore! (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB Douban
Whisky Galore!
director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Basil Radford / Bruce Seton
other title: Whisky a volontà / Freut euch des Lebens
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
Fiddlers Three (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fiddlers Three
director: Harry Watt actor: Tommy Trinder / Frances Day
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.