shadow of the cat (1961)

"That cats got a mean streak in her, like her mistress."
Ella Venable (Catherine Lacey), a rich elderly woman is murdered by Walter (André Morell), her gold-digger husband and Andrew (Andrew Crawford), her butler. They in turn pay off the other relatives, the only exception being Ella's beloved niece Elizabeth (Barbara Shelley). But there is one problem, their was a witness, Tabitha, Ella's cat, and she decides the crime cannot go unpunished.
A Victorian horror made in the inimitable Hammer horror style, using Hammer locations, personnel and actors. At 75 minutes this romps along and doesn't outlast its welcome.

loot (1970)

"I'm a professional. I only marry for money."
Two friends, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder) execute a bank robbery, hiding the money in the coffin of Hal's recently deceased mother. Things get complicated when Inspector Truscott (Richard Attenborough) starts to sniff around, as does Nurse Fay (Lee Remick), a gold-digger who gets wind that the boys may have come into money!
Based on the play by Joe Orton and adapted by Galton and Simpson, this is a wonderful, and blackly comic farce, chock full with a number of wonderful characters.

the brain from planet arous (1957)

"Don't expert me Sally, I'm alright!"
Gor, is a criminal brain from the planet Arous, takes over Steve March (John Agar). Steve is a scientist and Gor uses him to threaten the world, in an attempt to take it over. Fortunately for the world Val, also from Arous, comes to our aid, and with the help of Steve's wife Sally (Joyce Meadows), they try to defeat Gor.
A film that quickly dispenses with any attempt to play it straight, in favour of campy fun in this 50's sci-fi, and is all the better for it.

piccadilly third stop (1960)

"It's the challenge that fires me."
Dominic (Terence Morgan), a Playboy and wannabe criminal mastermind, seduces Fina (Yoko Tani) and persuades her to help him rob her father's embassy. To pull of his plan he recruits a gang of old lags to open the embassy's safe, but inevitably things start to go wrong and the plan begins to unravel.
A fine cast including Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, and William Hartnell, pack out this journey through the playboy world of London's wealthy Mayfair. A standard thriller like many similar such fare made around this period.

remember me this way (1974)

"You don't think of yourself as a sex symbol...but if someone thinks of you in this way, then fine."
A documentary that looks into the preparations for a Gary Glitter concert and the daily routines that Gary and his management team have to go through to maintain his pop star status, from photo shoots, record company meetings, sound checks and finally the recording of a live concert.
Filmed when Gary was at the height of his stardom, this doesn't delve too deep into the process or Gary himself, but does show the mundane routines that go into making a pop star. Glitter had become an institution in Britain, having survived the industry since the 60's, but then in the late 90's he took his laptop to get fixed and his downfall was swift. The title of this then became very prophetic, I'm sure he would rather us remember him this way.

ebirah, horror of the deep (1966)

AKA Godzilla vs The Sea Monster. Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas. Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto. Big Duel in the North. Big Duel in the North Sea. Ebirah, Terror of the Deep. The Great South Seas Duel.
"It could be Mothra's asleep at present. Our prayers will reach its source and it will arrive. Yes, I'm sure Mothra is soon going to hear us!"
A man is lost at sea and his brother with some friends tries to find him, but their lucks not in as they encounter Ebirah, a giant lobster, who smashes their yacht. They wash up on an island, where some terrorists are making heavy water, and have enslaved the local islanders to do this. To avoid capture the friends team up with an escaped native girl and hide in some caves. There they stumble on a sleeping Godzilla and they devise a plan to awaken in the hope that the monster will help them defeat the gang and free the slaves. Que monster fight number one, before Godzilla then takes on Mothra in the second bout of the evening.
One of the lesser Godzilla adventures, mainly because it takes some time to get to him, but once he arrives the film livens up considerably, with some great fight sequences.

hang 'em high (1968)

"When you hang a man you better look at him."
A band of vigilantes hang ex-lawman Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood), believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder. They leave him for dead, hang him and leave him for dead. Found by a marshall he takes up with Judge Fenton (Pat Hingle), and becomes a Deputy Marshall to exact revenge. But once on the trail he comes to believe the judge is too quick to hang a man and learns to difference between revenge and justice.
Whilst not in the same league as the Dollar trilogy, this is nevertheless a fine western, which brings to the fore the morals of an eye for an eye.