paul temple's triumph (1950)

"How did you know that we were here?"
Paul Temple (John Bentley) and his wife Steve (Dinah Sheridan) are a husband-and-wife detective team, who start investigating when a friend is murdered, whilst looking into a missing scientist, and come up against a sinister crime organization headed by the mysterious "Z".
Bentley and Sheridan make for a fine duo in this breezy mystery thriller.

the madame gambles (1951)

aka Madame Louise.
"I'm afraid that trade is a little slack."
Madame Louise's, a dressmaking shop managed by Mr Pastry (Richard Hearne), and his assistant (Petula Clark) is taken over by gambler Mr Trout (Garry Marsh) when he wins it in a bet, and needs somewhere to hide. The duo find out that they have six months to repay the debt, or the place is Trouts permanently.
Mildly comic affair, that has one redeeming feature, seeing Petula Clark acting.

you pay your money (1957)

"Well that's something we'll have to find out."
Bob Westlake (Hugh McDermott), and his wife Susie (Honor Blackman) investigate a break-in attheir employer's house, and get mixed up with a gang of smugglers, but things get really serious when Susie is kidnapped and Bob has to try and get her back.
Uninteresting and flat, would be thriller.

mark of the phoenix (1958)

"...the world's greatest jewel thief..."
A new alloy is stolen and made into a cigarette case, so it can be smuggled out of Belgium. Unfortunately an American jewel thief (Sheldon Lawrence) is mistakenly given the case, and finds himself sought out by the smugglers and the police, in the shape of Inspector Schell (Anton Diffring).
Ignore the plot holes, and this makes for an entertaining thriller. Otherwise its an infuriating and cheap filler.

down among the z men (1952)

"don't go away please."
Professor Pure Heart (Michael Bentine) loses a top secret formula. Harry Jones (Harry Secombe), a store clerk, finds and attempts to return it, but whilst doing so he inadvertently enlists as a Z man, as do an international gang of crooks, who are also after the formula.
This represents another attempt to bring the Goon Show humour to the big screen. Unfortunately it falls between the anarchic humour of the goons and the rather simplistic slapstick humour popularised by the likes of Norman Wisdom, and satisfies neither camp.

not wanted on voyage (1957)

"That'll be four shillings for the perfume."
Cruise liner that has two scheming stewards (Ronald Shiner and Brian Rix) aboard, doing anything they can to earn some extra money from the hapless passengers. Along the way they unwittingly get involved with two jewel thieves, (Griffith Jones and Catherine Boyle).
Passable but unremarkable comedy, that provides nothing new or particularly entertaining.

assignment redhead (1956)

In Allied Occupied Berlin some passengers wait to catch a flight to London. One takes the photo of a woman with a Major Scammel. She objects to being photographed and reveals her name as Hedy Bergner, a singer on her way to London. Once in London another of the passengers, a Major Keen, is asked by MI5 to question the rest in an attempt to try and flush out the mastermind behind a gang supplying black market passports. Things then start to heat up when the photographer is found dead and so is the real Major Scammel.
A run of the mill quota quickie, made quickly and cheaply, (and you can tell), that has just enough to it to entertain for the 80 minute duration, but no more.