Gaslight

Gaslight 1940

7.10

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.

1940

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942

6.40

On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.

1942

Lisbon Story

Lisbon Story 1946

5.70

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

1946

'Pimpernel' Smith

'Pimpernel' Smith 1941

7.10

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

1941

This England

This England 1941

6.20

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

1941

Contraband

Contraband 1940

6.90

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.

1940

The Agitator

The Agitator 1945

6.00

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.

1945

Debt of Honour

Debt of Honour 1936

1

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.

1936

Don Chicago

Don Chicago 1945

4.00

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.

1945

Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn 1926

6.80

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

1926

Waltz Time

Waltz Time 1945

1

Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.

1945

Bedelia

Bedelia 1946

5.20

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.

1946

Uneasy Terms

Uneasy Terms 1948

4.20

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?

1948

Tiptoes

Tiptoes 1927

1

A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

1927

Dual Alibi

Dual Alibi 1947

6.20

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.

1947

Spies of the Air

Spies of the Air 1939

6.50

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

1939

The Three Weird Sisters

The Three Weird Sisters 1948

7.00

Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.

1948

Meet Sexton Blake

Meet Sexton Blake 1945

5.50

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.

1945

Spring Song

Spring Song 1946

6.00

The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.

1946

Candles at Nine

Candles at Nine 1944

5.00

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.

1944