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British cinema. Vol. 1.
LIBRA DVD 004 309 discs 1-3
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Crime films.
- B films.
- Motion pictures, British.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (465 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- British cinema collection
- Title on container: British cinema : classic 'B' film collecdtion.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Blair & Associates, Ltd. : distributed by VCI Entertainment, [2008]
- System Details:
- DVD NTSC; Dolby digital.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Siege of Sydney street: in 1911 a standoff is sparked between Russian anarchists and police. The frightened man: a furniture-antique shop owner earns cash from handling stolen goods to send his son to Oxford, but the son gets thrown out, returns to his father, and gets involved with bad guys. Crimes at the dark house: a madman kills the recipient of an inheritance to gain his estate, but not everyone believes he is the rightful heir. The hooded terror: a multimillionaire stamp collector is actually the head of the country's most notorious organized crime ring, and an amateur endeavors to track him down. Girl in the news: an unsuspecting nurse, once acquitted of killing a patient and now hired to care for a wheelchair-bound man, is set up by the man's wife and butler who are plotting to kill the husband. Tread softly stranger: sexy Calico (Diana Dors) tries to get her boyfriend and his newly arrived and crooked brother an office safe.
- Contents:
- Disc.1. Siege of Sydney street (1960) / directors, Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman ; The frightened man (1952) / director, John Gilling. Disc 2. Crimes in the dark house (1943) / director, George King ; The hooded terror (1963) / writer, Peter Nichols. Disc 3. Tread softly stranger (1958) / director, Gordon Parry ; Girl in the news (1940) / director, Carol Reed.
- Participant:
- Siege of Sidney Street: Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger; The frightened man: Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray; Crimes at the dark house: Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott; The hooded terror: George Curzon; Girl in the news: Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes; Tread softly stranger: Diana Dors, George Baker.
- Notes:
- 6 movies on 3 dvds.
- "Overlooked gems from the 1940s & 50s."--Container cover.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Contains:
- Siege of Sydney street
- The frightened man
- Crimes at the dark house
- The hooded terror
- Girl in the news
- Tread softly stranger
- OCLC:
- 269058149
- Publisher Number:
- 089859853821
- 8538 VCI Entertainment
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