During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.Read More »
James Mason
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 5 Fingers (1952)
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Julius Caesar (1953)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz1951-1960ClassicsPoliticsUSAWilliam Shakespeare

Synopsis:
Brutus is convinced by a scheming band of Roman senators, led by Caius Cassius, that his dear friend Julius Caesar intends to dissolve the republic and install himself as monarch, and he joins a conspiracy to assassinate him. Brutus stirringly defends his actions, but when Mark Antony responds with a speech that plays upon the crowd’s love for their fallen leader, a battle between the two factions is assured.Read More » -
Terence Young – De la part des copains AKA Cold Sweat (1970)
Terence Young1961-1970CrimeDramaFranceSynopsis
A brutal drug trader takes his violent revenge after his wife is captured by a drug boss.Read More » -
Henry Hathaway – The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
1951-1960ClassicsHenry HathawayWar

Synopsis:
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (James Mason) leads the German troops against the Allied forces in World War II. Rommel’s virtuosity on the battlefield makes him a national hero and earns the begrudging respect of his foes, but his tactics also infuriate Adolf Hitler. Rommel’s close friend Dr. Strölin (Cedric Hardwicke) asks him to take part in a plan to assassinate the Führer; when Hitler learns of Rommel’s involvement in the scheme, the field marshal is given a chilling ultimatum.Read More » -
Leslie Stevens – Hero’s Island (1962)
Drama1961-1970AdventureLeslie StevensUSA

IMDB:
In 1718, on a small island off the Carolina coast, a recently freed family of indentured servants plans to settle and homestead there but they run into conflict with a group of fishermen also claiming ownership of the island.Read More » -
William Spier – A Lady Possessed (1952)
1951-1960MysteryThrillerUSAWilliam Spier

Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this off-beat, tuneful psychological thriller, an ailing pregnant woman is in the hospital when she inadvertently eavesdrops on a conversation between a pianist and his wife. Later, after losing her baby, the woman’s husband convinces her to convalesce in a nice country house he has rented. Later she learns that the house is owned by the pianist whose wife died. The poor confused girl then begins believing that she has been possessed by the spirit of the musician’s late wife.Read More » -
Terence Young – De la part des copains AKA Cold Sweat (1970)
1961-1970FranceTerence YoungThriller
Synopsis:
‘Joe Martin, a quiet American, lives a quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He is happily married to Fabienne and has a twelve-year-old daughter named Michèle. But the quiet man has a past: ten years before, Joe (then Moran) had escaped with four other convicts, among whom the sadistic ex-mercenary Katanga. Seeing the latter brutally kill an M. P., Joe had abandoned his accomplices and left with the car. One night, Captain Ross, Katanga, Whitey and Fausto re-appear…
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Luigi Zampa – Gente di rispetto aka The Flower In His Mouth aka The Masters (1975)
1971-1980GialloItalyLuigi ZampaMystery
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.Read More »
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Carol Reed – Odd Man Out (1947)
1941-1950Carol ReedFilm NoirThrillerUSA

Plot synopsis:
Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to continue its activities. During the hold-up, things go sour…Read More »
