Edward Rigby
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer. Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to prove his...
Publisher
Madacy Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Rich and strange (1931): Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs. They decide to escape from it all by writing to a rich relative and asking for their inheritance in advance. Using the money they go on a world cruise and get into a series of misadventures.
Young and innocent (1937): A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Proud Valley (1940): An African American sailor comes to a Welsh coal mining town in 1938 and helps re-open the mine at the cost of his life.
Native land (1942): A political semi-documentary formed from staged reenactments, leads viewers on an emotional tour of the pre-World War II U.S. and its freedom-based ideologies and looks at the the forces it sees as threatening to undermine America's strengths from within: greedy capitalists, professional...
Publisher
LaserLight
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Young & innocent (1937): A young writer is falsely accused of murder. He meets the daughter of the chief of police and persuades her to help him prove his innocence.
The Cheney vase (1955): A fired museum curator begins to manipulate an elderly woman in order to acquire her fortune. (This was the 13th episode of the first season from the television production of Alfred Hitchcock Presents).
5) British noir
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They met in the dark: Discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career.
The October man: After a traumatic brain injury, a young engineer tries to repair his life. But his recovery is thwarted when a woman is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect.
Snowbound: A British Army vet exposes a plot by ex-Nazis to reclaim a stash of gold bullion hidden at a ski resort.
The golden...