smart alec (1951)

"Any message for Sylvia"
Alex (Peter Reynolds) is a bounder who develops a plot to literally get away with murder, and everyone is stumped as to how he has done it. Especially after he is brazen enough to reveal his masterly plan after he is cleared of the murder.
Intreging crime drama quickly disolves into a slap-stick comedy once the crime comes to be investigated as the likes of Charles Hawtrey get involved. A truely oddball how-done-it.

miss robin hood (1952)

"Golly, here's the police."
Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) a teenage thriller writer, meets the eccentric Miss Honey (Margaret Rutherford). She soon involves him in her criminal venture, to steal back a secret recipe from a whiskey manufacturer (James Robertson Justice).
A curious amalgam of a film, seemingly pitched as a children's comedy.

four days (1951)

"He didn't suspect a thing."
Lucienne (Kathleen Byron) is the wife of a businessman (Hugh McDermott), who is neglecting her, so she turns to one of his employees Johnny (Peter Reynolds)...
Melodrama with little to get interested in.

operation diplomat (1953)

"You don't have to bribe me to save a mans life."
Dr Mark Fenton (Guy Rolfe) is persuaded to operate on a mystery patient. The next night a foreign office official mentions the Governments chief of defense has disappeared, and Fenton realises that this was the patient. Then his fellow surgeon is murdered in his home, and the police inevitably disbelieve his story. That leaves Fenton only one option to clear his name...
Brisk and likable thriller, but one that won't stay in the memory for long.

town on trial (1957)

"I didn't do it. I didn't do it."
Supt. Mike Halloran (John Mills) is new to town when he's called to investigate a series of sexually based murders. Suspicion falls on several high placed members of the local tennis club, who are all more concerned about maintaining their good names than catching the culprit.
Interesting peek into the concerns of 50's society lifts this above the run of the mill.

king kong lives (1986)

aka King Kong II. "She's pregnant!" Scientists discover a giant female Gorilla, ten years after King Kong has lapsed into a coma. This enables vets to bring him back from the dead, and with a blood transfusion and heart transplant, Kong looses no time in continuing the carnage, and attempt to win himself a bride. It's down to keepers Hank Mitchell & Amy Franklin (Brian Kerwin & Linda Hamilton) to stop the military from harming them. A sequel to the 1974 re-make, and with this pedigree you'd expect it to be bad, but surprisingly this has high production values and turns out ok, (if not a patch on the originals).

the crowded day (1954)

aka Shop Soiled. Tomorrow Is Sunday.
"Alright everybody its feeding time."
A well-written comedy drama following the lives and loves of the staff on one day in a busy London department store during the Christmas season. The ensemble cast including Vera Day, John Gregson interweave some light-hearted stories with that of Josephine Griffin's as a pregnant woman driven to desperate thoughts...

king kong (1976)

"There is a girl out there who might be running for her life from some gigantic turned-on ape."
A petroleum exploration unit comes across an isolated island laden with crude oil, hostile natives and an even more hostile giant gorilla. When Dwan (Jessica Lange) is kidnapped and left as sacrifice to Kong, Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) having hit it off with her, decides that no gorilla is going to come between them, even a giant one.
Twisting the tale slightly, this is a fairly faithful retelling of the original kong, with added special effects. Though this doesn't add up to a better picture, it does prove to be an entertaining adventure.

never let go (1960)

"Did you see my car? I parked it over there. The new Ford Anglia."
John Cummings (Richard Todd) is a salesman who can ill afford to have his new car stolen, as he cannot work without it, and didn't fully insure it. Due to police apathy, and pressure at work, he determines to find it himself. This puts him on the trail of crime boss Meadows (Peter Sellers) and small time hood Tommy (Adam Faith).
A gritty crime drama with a suitably manic performance from Sellers in a non comic role, and driven by a noirish score by John Barry. Starts slowly, but once it gets going it cannot fail to grip.