The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937)
Apr 14, 2001Man Gains Miraculous Powers
H.G. Wells scripted film with Roland Young as a man who suddenly finds he can perform miracles
George Sanders
The Lodger (1944)
May 8, 2001Jack the Ripper Thriller
Sound remake of the silent Alfred Hitchcock film, starring big man Laird Cregar as the new lodger that a family believe might be Jack the Ripper. Cregar gives a wonderfully melodramatic performance
Hangover Square (1945)
Apr 17, 2001Mad Composer
Big man Laird Cregar gained a sudden fame as the killer in The Lodger and was quickly repackaged as another psychopathic killer in this vehicle where he plays a mentally disturbed composer
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Jul 29, 2002Eternally Youthful Libertine
Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel about an unaging libertine starring Hurd Hatfield. This is regarded as a classic but reads as fairly melodramatic and tame today
Personal Column (1947)
Jun 25, 2004Psycho-Thriller
Psycho-thriller with an unknown Lucille Ball as a showgirl used by Scotland Yard as a lure to trap a maniac killer
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
Apr 12, 2003Ghost-Mortal Friendship
One of the most beautiful of all 1940s light fantasy films about the sweet and tender relationship between widow Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison as the ghost of the sea captain in the house she moves into
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Jan 17, 2001Victorian Moon Expedition/Jules Verne Adaptation
One of a series of Jules Verne adaptations that were popular in the 1950s about a Victorian-era Lunar rocket launch, this starts with great promise but loses impetus once it gets into orbit
Village of the Damned (1960)
Mar 12, 2000Telepathic Alien Children
Classic adaptation of the John Wyndham novel about the women in a sleepy English village being impregnated and producing emotionless alien children with vast psychic powers. This translates the paranoia of US alien invasion films with considerable effectiveness
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Apr 2, 2006Jules Verne Adventure
Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea created a fad for Jules Verne adaptations throughout the 1950s/60s. Disney returned to Verne in this colourfully absurd adventure with children on a globe-spanning hunt for their missing father
The Jungle Book (1967)
Jul 30, 1999Disney Animation/Jungle Boy
The Disney animated version of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli tales, the one that everybody remembers, a lively affair with talking and singing animals
Doomwatch (1972)
May 2, 2002Toxic Spill/Mutations
The film spinoff of a 1970s British tv series about a group who investigate scientific and ecological abuses. The film depicts an outbreak of aromegaly on an island near where growth stimulants have been dumped.
Psychomania (1973)
Dec 5, 2013Undead Biker Gang
Hard to find Anglo-horror effort that has been long considered an item of must-see fascination for its premise of an undead biker gang, including the central image of the gang leader erupting from the grave on his motorcycle. The film unfortunately has a prosaic dullness that belies such imaginative wildness