Sam Kydd

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. (imdb)

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains. (imdb)

A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. The third one, barely alive, undergoes an horrible metamorphosis turning into a monstrous "thing". When he breaks out and, chased in vain by inspector Lomax, starts killing humans and animals to feed his transformation, Quatermass realizes that this is the way chosen by an alien form of life to invade the Earth. (imdb)

A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back. (imdb)

'Pel' Pelham is a veteran carnival barker who's happily married and desperately wants a good education for his young son. With money borrowed from bookie Tony Lewis, he persuades Sapolio, a professional "starving man," to attempt to break his own world's record of 65 days without food. Sapolio and his wife throw a party in their flat but when a girl in an upstairs apartment is murdered, suspicion falls on Pel and Tony Lewis, the girl's former boyfriend. (imdb)

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. (imdb)

Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries. (imdb)

When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair. (imdb)

Story of an elaborate scheme by an author's wife to boost her lover into literary fame through series of B.B.C. broadcasts really written by her husband. (BFI)

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud in Brighton and uncovers a murder. (imdb)

A race horse swallows a microfilm, sought after by the major superpower spy agencies. (imdb)

In 1815 England, Col. Jackson hires Adam Corbett to serve as armed escort for himself and his daughter as they travel to the isle of Monte Cristo. It seems the Colonel has part of a map showing the site of the fabled Monte Cristo treasure. (imdb)

The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man. (imdb)

A 1946 public service film about using caution when driving in the country. From the BFI volume of COI films Worth the Risk?

Family ties are strained as grown up offspring start to leave the nest.

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in an alcohol-lubricated bout of thrill-seeking (so far as that was possible in England in the late 1940s). When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.

Believing himself to be dying, a man hires an assassin to kill him so he can frame an enemy for the death.

An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham.