cover girl killer (1959)

"You've no idea where she is now?"
A girl in a bikini is found dead by the Serpentine. When police investigate they find she is in the same place, pose and bikini as when she appeared on the cover of "Wow!" magazine. Further investigations reveal other pin-up's have suffered the same fate after they featured on the magazines cover. With the help of the magazine's new owner, John Mason (Spencer Teakle), Inspector Brunner (Victor Brooks), tries and track the madman down, before he murders the next cover girl, John's girlfriend June (Felicity Young).
A standard madman film is livened up by the presence of Harry H. Corbett, a fine actor, who manages to make the over the top wig and bottle bottom glasses look slightly less rediculous!

doctor at large (1957)

"Big breaths Eva!
Yes and I'm only sixteen!"
After his stint at sea, Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) returns to land and a hospital casualty department, but hankers to become a surgeon. After loosing out on the house surgeon's job at the hospital he has to launch himself into the jobs market and continues his adventures.
Another day and another in the doctor series. The last with Dirk in the lead sees the same light comedy, which brings back many of the characters it lost in the previous installment. So here we have Joy (Muriel Pavlow), Sir Lancelot (James Robertson Justice), and Benskin (Donald Sinden), returning alongside Shirley Eaton as a nubile nurse.

killing, the (1956)

"You like money. You've got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart."
Ex-convict Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) has spent five years planning his next job, and now he's out he's intent on enacting it. A scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a racetrack. Planned meticulously, the only flaw is human greed, a gang member's cheating wife, and her ruthless boyfriend. From the start of the seventh race the plan starts to go awry...
We follow the scheming and the job from all angles, seeing the problems as they arise and the ignorance of the protagonists to these developments. A great noir, well acted and directed, by a soon to be star director.

doctor at sea (1955)

"They say worse things happen at sea..."
One year on and we re-join Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) as he starts his medical career having graduated. He runs away to become a doctor on a merchant ship to avoid a romantic liason, and ends up under the hard drinking captain Hogg (James Robertson Justice). Then Murial Mallet (Brenda De Banzie), the daughter of the shipping owner and her escort Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), are landed on the Captain, causing no end of complications.
Another fun romp, which entertains with its light comedy as the doc administers to the various eccentrics aboard.

doctor in the house (1954)

"What's the bleeding time?
10 past 10!"
Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) arrives at St Swithins as a medical student and falls in with three other student doctors, Grimsdyke (Kenneth More), Benskin (Donald Sinden) and Taffy (Donald Houston). He's soon wooing the nurses, and in trouble with chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice).
The first of seven doctor films, which breezes along a a pace.

the bird with the crystal plumage (1970)

AKA L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo. Point of Terror.
"Let me know everything you saw and heard."
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante), an American writer visiting his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) in Rome, witnesses an attempted murder. The woman, Monica Ranieri (Eva Renzi) survives, and appears to have had a lucky escape from a notorious serial killer stalking the city. But something is wrong, and Sam's nagging suspicions force him to investigate further, getting deeper into a bad situation.
A wonderfully set out story, building suspense and mystery as it drops clues into the plot, filmed in Argento's unusual, quirky, but stylish manner.

the killing of sister george (1968)

"Not all women are raving bloody lesbians, you know.
That is a misfortune I am perfectly well aware of!"
The film centers around June Buckridge (Beryl Reed) an actress in a long-running British soap opera, who thinks that her character is to be killed off. This impacts on her relationship with Alice (Susannah York), her young lover, who bears the brunt of June's anger. As June lashes out Alice also comes between June and Mrs. Croft (Corale Brown), the woman who holds June's career in her hands.
For its time, The Killing of Sister George was a groundbreaking film, dealing openly with a lesbian relationship. All concerned play their characters to the hilt, especially Beryl Reed, filled with frustration as her career and love life go down the pan all at the same time.