Movies: John Stratton

  • 1953
    The Cruel Sea

    The Cruel Sea (1953)

    The Cruel Sea

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    At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing surviv...

    The Cruel Sea
  • 1950
    Seven Days to Noon

    Seven Days to Noon (1950)

    Seven Days to Noon

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    When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Fo...

    Seven Days to Noon
  • 1974
    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

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    Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical ...

    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  • 1949
    The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room (1949)

    The Small Back Room

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    At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat....

    The Small Back Room
  • 1957
    The Man in the Sky

    The Man in the Sky (1957)

    The Man in the Sky

    7.21957HD

    The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rock...

    The Man in the Sky
  • 1957
    Abandon Ship

    Abandon Ship (1957)

    Abandon Ship

    7.41957HD

    After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers s...

    Abandon Ship
  • 1976
    The Witches of Pendle

    The Witches of Pendle (1976)

    The Witches of Pendle

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    A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616....

    The Witches of Pendle
  • 1960
    The Challenge

    The Challenge (1960)

    The Challenge

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    Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot....

    The Challenge
  • 1965
    Strangler's Web

    Strangler's Web (1965)

    Strangler's Web

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    What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that...

    Strangler's Web
  • 1956
    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm (1956)

    The Long Arm

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    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue...

    The Long Arm
  • 1951
    Appointment with Venus

    Appointment with Venus (1951)

    Appointment with Venus

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    At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from...

    Appointment with Venus
  • 1977
    Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes

    Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes (1977)

    Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes

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    A boy reflects on time he spent staying with his aunt and uncle....

    Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes
  • 1972
    Anywhere but England

    Anywhere but England (1972)

    Anywhere but England

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    Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics....

    Anywhere but England
  • 1952
    The Happy Family

    The Happy Family (1952)

    The Happy Family

    7.21952HD

    When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. L...

    The Happy Family
  • 1995
    Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

    Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town (1995)

    Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

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    A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script....

    Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
  • 1949
    The Cure for Love

    The Cure for Love (1949)

    The Cure for Love

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    Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead....

    The Cure for Love
  • 1972
    The Love Pill

    The Love Pill (1972)

    The Love Pill

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    A man discovers a candy can also be used as an aphrodisiac--and a contraceptive....

    The Love Pill
  • 1989
    Countdown to War

    Countdown to War (1989)

    Countdown to War

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    Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland....

    Countdown to War
  • 1969
    Calculated Nightmare

    Calculated Nightmare (1969)

    Calculated Nightmare

    01969HD

    Two business executives are trapped for the night on a deserted office floor by a disgruntled employee who has hacked the elevator system....

    Calculated Nightmare