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- A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
- A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
- In 1870s Transylvania, scientist Dr. Callistratus is put to death by villagers who wrongly believe he's a vampire. However, his horribly disfigured henchman, Carl is on hand to orchestrate a life-saving heart transplant.
- A young singer on a train bound for London finds herself among a group of famous musicians and performers.
- In the North Sea in 1944, passengers of a downed Royal Air Force transport aircraft talk about their lives while awaiting rescue in their dinghy.
- Coastal pub proprietress is inveigled into a smuggling plot.
- A writer eloping with his mistress by train has second thoughts, pulls the emergency brake, bails out and witnesses the train's collision with another train, events eventually leading to murder and a police manhunt.
- Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang of thieves who killed her jeweler father, Michael.
- After being released from prison, Augie Cortona sets up a blackmail operation, fronted by a model agency. When the authorities get wind of his activities, they send in an undercover police woman, but when she is recognised, the police need to move in on the operation, before Cortona can take his revenge.
- A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
- A blind man's sight is restored in time to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's dead (or is he) brother and a gang of currency smugglers.
- The story of four people directly and indirectly involved in the murder of a female blackmailer. The three male suspects are the girl's employer (publisher Henry Kendall); an up-and-coming writer (Edward Underdown); a brilliant established writer (James Robertson Justice), an intellectual snob who disdains everything and everybody; and his wife (Valerie Hobson.) The latter meets the struggling writer and, propelled by her loveless marriage, falls in love with him and helps him with his ascending career, with the unwitting aid of her ailing husband. Meanwhile, the police are still investigating the murder.
- 1950. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Writer Robert Southley finds his lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate. Stars Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan & John Laurie.
- The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Julius Rosselli (Dermot Walsh), whose expulsion from Oxford and subsequent participation with jewel thieves breaks the heart of his father (Charles Victor), heads towards a calamity replete with Greek irony.
- Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
- In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.
- A cop robs a store to go undercover in a gang. In prison he meets a member and escapes. Now inside, he identifies the boss and thieves, but not the informant. As a big heist nears, the cop is distracted by the boss's girlfriend.
- A destitute, suicidal man is offered a contract for 18 months to act as a front for an unscrupulous businessman, with his life being forfeit. He carries out his agreement, also writing a successful novel and falling in love, wanting to break the contract early. He is refused.
- A widow must take drastic action to prevent her younger son falling too deeply under the influence of his worthless older brother.
- Though Jane Pringle is blind, she has made a good life for herself. She has a fine job, a comfortable flat and many friends. But one day Jane discovers that someone wants to kill her.
- Marco tries to assist two lovers, one the nephew of Florence's despot and the other the daughter of a leading Republican, find happiness.
- The Duke de Medici plots to prevent the annual ceremony of the striking of Florence's Liberty Bell, but Marco and Sandro have other plans.
- After helping Francesca when she is thrown from her horse, Marco discovers the lady's bracelet entangled in his cloak. When he tries to return it, his is beaten and robbed.
- Fearing a revolt because of his high taxes, de Medici hires Spanish mercenaries to keep the peace. The peacekeepers methods include a large amount of violence, however, and de Medici hopes that one of the victims is Marco.
- A Republican courier is ambushed and his message to a man only known as "Orsini" is stolen by de Medici's agents. A man is sent to spy on Marco hoping that he will unwittingly reveal Orsini's true identity.
- General Ferrucci, an exiled enemy of the Duke de Medici, accepts an amnesty from the Florence tyrant and returns to the city. Marco is outraged because his old mentor has apparently turned his back on the Republican cause.
- A staunch abolitionist, Marco meets a Turkish princess about to be sold into slavery and, over the objections of Sandro and Angelica, decides to help her escape.
- Stephano tries to get the Duke of Urbino to invest in a ship for Far East trade, but the Duke de Medici needs to borrow money from the same man. Marco plots to help Stephano get his ship and tweak the noses of the two Dukes in the process.
- A card sharp fleeces Sandro of his own money as well as a large sum he is carrying to support the Republicans. Marco devises a way for Sandro to fight fire with fire and win back the money he lost.
- Sandro overhears a conversation among the Duke's men where he learns that one of Marco's confidants is a traitor.
- In order to impress a visiting nobleman, the Duke de Medici commissions elaborate decorations and then refuses to pay for them. The artisans plot to force the Duke to compensate them for their efforts.