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the woman in question (1950)

aka Five Angles on Murder.
"Yes! That's how it happened"
Agnes Huston (Jean Kent) fortune teller is murdered and Inspector Lodge (Duncan Macrae) tries to unravel the various stories he is told by those involed, including Dirk Bogarde.
Cleaverly pieced together, into a fine whodunnit.

the goose steps out (1942)

"Blimey it is my own."
A bumbling teacher, William Potts (Will Hay), is mistaken for a German spy. He is given the job of impersonating the spy, and is parachuted into German to cause mayhem.
Entertaining Propaganda film using comedy to undermine the enemy with laughter.

breakout from opression (1978)

aka Sha chu chong wei.
"You tried to kill him!"
On release from prison Fonda Chiu (Fonda Lynn) tries to start her life over, and gets a job at a newspaper, but then she starts to suspect that someone has a vendetta against her.
A violent horror-thriller.

the swinger (1966)

"I'm not a nudie, I'm a writer."
Kelly Olsson (Ann Margaret) is a writer who gets the knockback from Girl-lure magazine, so to prove that she is not as wholesome as they think, she writes a sex-novel. The publishers take the bait, so she then has to live out her heroine's adventures when in a rush of blood she tells the editor (Anthony Franciosa) that it is all true.
Promises more than it delivers, but the journey is full of kitschy fun along the way.

street corner (1953)

aka Both Sides of the Law.
"Oh dear, not another!"
Three stories that revolve around the work of policewomen. The first has a young newly wed (Peggy Cummins) with child, who takes up with a petty thug. The second tells of a young woman who deserts the army to marry, and is subsequently caught when she rescues a child from drowning. The third story features a mistreated baby, who is reunited with its mother.
An unassuming film that develops character rather than drama, from a an almost wholly female crew and perspective.

crucible of horror (1971)

aka The Corpse. The Velevet House.
"She does not need instructing Paul, she needs love."
Will the domineering patriarch (Michael Gough) finally get his comeupance when his wife (Yvonne Mitchell) and daughter Jane (Sharon Gurney) hatch a plot to murder him. And what about Rupert (Simon Gough), the son that worships the father?
More of a slow moving suburban melodrama than a horror.