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- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsHayley MillsHorst BuchholzJohn MillsA twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsYvonne MitchellAnthony QuayleSylvia SymsA middle-aged married woman is shocked to discover that her husband, whom she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and plans to leave his family for her.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsJohn MillsAnthony QuayleSylvia SymsDuring World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsKenneth MoreLauren BacallHerbert LomSet on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGregory PeckRobert MitchumPolly BergenA lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenGregory PeckAnthony QuinnA team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsAndrew RayKathleen RyanKenneth MoreIn post-war London, a small boy who blames himself for the accidental death of a friend, falls under the bad influence of a street criminal.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDiana DorsYvonne MitchellMichael CraigWoman abused by men meets a man she thinks loves her. He cheats, she kills his mistress. Based on Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in Britain. Less than
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDennis PriceDerek FarrPatricia PlunkettIn London, a man is blackmailed by his landlord-neighbor after he accidentally kills, in his flat, a woman he picked up in a nightclub.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGlynis JohnsDiana DorsJohn GregsonFrank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDirk BogardeSusan StephenCecil ParkerIn postwar London, young graduate Tony (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and his girlfriend Anne (Susan Stephen) decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newlyweds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbors a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea leaves, except down the sink?
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsJack BuchananJanette ScottJeannie CarsonA stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit, and the stockbroker notes the effect of the singer on his lovelorn family.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDonald SindenDiana DorsJeannie CarsonAn Englishman is left with an abandoned, very tame, and domesticated pet alligator, who helps him develop a bond with a young Irishwoman. Plans to get rid of the animal cause mayhem and produce a surprising outcome for all.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsEric PortmanCelia JohnsonHugh GriffithA touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down to earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune. Re-launched with Miss Trant's money, they tour England, at first with little success. Inigo falls in love with the troupe's talented and pretty young girl singer, Susie Dean. The troupe is threatened with disharmony, but, due to Inigo's intervention, and the marriage of the principal dancer (Jerry Jerningham) to Lady Parlitt (whose family "own a chain of theatres"), all turns out well for Susie by the end, when she triumphs in a lavish London revue, with the other members of "The Good Companions" in the audience, cheering her triumph.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsSylvia SymsHerbert LomRonald HowardSurrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Then it was an area of overcrowded tenements teeming with impoverished unemployed people with little or no hope. He relates the story of attractive young Hetty who desperately tried to stop her younger brother descending into crime while her mother was endlessly urging her to take up with Wilkie, a smooth local racketeer, in the belief this would get the family out of poverty.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsCurd JürgensVictoria ShawHerbert LomThe story of rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun's career, from the 1920s until the late 1950s.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsTony CurtisYul BrynnerChristine KaufmannIn the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsYul BrynnerGeorge ChakirisShirley Anne FieldOn the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsShirley MacLainePaul NewmanRobert MitchumA four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsShirley MacLainePeter UstinovRichard CrennaA former Notre Dame football star crash lands over a mythical Arabian country while on spy mission to the USSR. He is then forced by the football-obsessed king of that country to coach their football team .
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsMaximilian SchellSamantha EggarIngrid ThulinIn Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenSharon TateDeborah KerrWorkers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenTopolAnna KarinaAfter World War II, in an Austrian camp for displaced people, an interpreter mediates between the British and the Soviets regarding the fate of various refugees.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGregory PeckOmar SharifTelly SavalasA bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGregory PeckAnne HeywoodArthur HillDuring the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.