Product Details
Format: 3-DVD9s
Version: Full Screen
Rating: NR
Runtime: 465 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Year: 1960, 1952, 1940, 1938, 1940, 1940
Item #: 8538
Region: NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital
Color: B&W
Language: English
Country: UK
UPC: 089859853821
ISBN: 1-55739-907-7
Summary
The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. During the Second World War and its aftermath, filmmakers were finding a new freedom to reflect the national mood, producing works of unparalleled ambition and boldness. This collection includes six films from the late 1930s to early 1960s.
Disc One:
SIEGE OF SIDNEY: The date is 1911 and a standoff is sparked between Russian anarchists and police officers. Violence and flashbacks to the events provide the tension to sustain the viewer to “still till the end!” (1960)
THE FRIGHTENED MAN: Charles Victor, the owner of a small furniture & antique shop uses extra cash from handling stolen goods to put his son through Oxford. However, the son gets himself kicked out and comes home to sponge off the old man. The son wants more money and gets himself involved with some heavy duty bad guys. Tragedy is the name of the game in this one. (1952)
Disc Two:
CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE: The inheritance of a large estate leads to murder, when a madman kills the recipient only to gain entrance to the estate so that he can enjoy the life of luxury. But not everyone is convinced he is the rightful heir. (1940)
THE HOODED TERROR: This drama thriller is both classy & suspenseful. No one suspects a millionaire stamp collector to be the head of the country’s most notorious and feared organized crime ring. It’s up to an amateur to track him down with little help from the police. (1938)
Disc Three:
GIRL IN THE NEWS: The perfect plot! An unsuspecting nurse, once acquitted of murder, is hired to care for the wheelchair-bound Mr. Bentley. This falls into the plans of Mrs. Bentley and the butler – lovers plotting to set Ms. Graham up when Mr. Bentley is found dead. (1940)
TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER: Diana Dors plays Calico, the sexy vamp (or tramp?) and Terence Morgan, the staid little office worker and “love interest”of Calico. Things heat up when the shady but handsome brother arrives from London. Instant attraction strikes between Calico & the brother – making her plan of theft take off. (1958)
TRT: 465 minutes
Actors:
SIEGE OF SIDNEY: Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore, Peter Wyngarde, Godfrey Quigley, Tutte Lemkow, Bart Bastable, George Pastell, Angela Newman, T. P. McKenna, Maurice Good, James Caffrey, Harold Goldblatt, Christopher Casson, Harry Brogan.
THE FRIGHTENED MAN: Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe, Michael Ward, Thora Hird, John Horsley, Annette D. Simmonds, Martin Benson, Gabriel Toyne.
CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE: Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves, Geoffrey Wardwell, Hay Petrie, Margaret Yarde, Rita Grant, David Horne, Elsie Wagstaff, David Keir THE HOODED TERROR: George Curzon, Tod Slaughter, Greta Gynt, Tony Sympson, Charles Oliver, Marie Wright, David Farrar, Norman Pierce, H. B. Hallam, Bradley Watts.
GIRL IN THE NEWS: Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey, Margaretta Scott, Wyndham Goldie, Basil Radford, Irene Handl, Mervyn Johns, Betty Jardine, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer.
TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER: Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan, Patrick Allen, Jane Griffiths, Maureen Delaney, Betty Warren, Thomas Heathcote, Russell Napier, Norman Macowan, Wilfrid Lawson, William Kerwin
Directors:
SIEGE OF SIDNEY: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
THE FRIGHTENED MAN: John Gilling
CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE & THE HOODED TERROR: George King
GIRL IN THE NEWS: Carol Reed
TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER: Gordon Perry