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- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsRod SteigerDavid KnightBernard LeeA wealthy businessman in New York absconds to Mexico by train in order to avoid capture for embezzlement. On the way, he steals the identity of another man for a visa, but that only complicates matters.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsBetta St. JohnAlexander KnoxChristopher LeeJohn Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsPatrick McGoohanKeith MichellBetsy BlairThis movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisGary MerrillEmlyn WilliamsA mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
- DirectorMichael McCarthyStarsSydney TaflerRonald HowardKatharine BlakePretending to be rare stamp dealer, a man devotedly supports wife and musically talented younger brother as a professional hit-man.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsJack WarnerDerek FarrVeronica HurstWhen a local bully is found shot to death, the police suspect a young man who had recently been seen arguing with him. When thy discover that they had been arguing over the affections of a young girl, they begin to suspect that the pair had conspired to kill the victim. The suspect insists he's innocent, but the evidence seems overwhelming.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsDavid FarrarNoëlle AdamChristopher LeeAn impetuous teenage girl becomes involved with Soho's beatnik and striptease scenes to spite her staid architect father and her French ex-stripper stepmother.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsGinger RogersLily KannStanley BakerJohnny Victor, an actress living with Louis Galt on the Riviera, becomes involved with Pierre Clemont and learns he is a dangerous criminal.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsMargaret LockwoodIan HunterBarry K. BarnesBedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsVan JohnsonVera MilesEmlyn WilliamsA British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
- DirectorHans QuestStarsWalter GillerGardy GranassMichael CramerHeidelberg teenagers make jazz music.
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsAdrienne CorriWilliam RussellIan ColinA clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsJanet MunroJohn StrideAlan BadelA pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsJoan MarionRaymond MasseyElliott MasonA murder case sparks a sensationalist press frenzy as it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsMichael MedwinFrank HawkinsWinifred MelvilleDanny Cruff returns home years after his father was wrongly accused and hanged for murder. But he can't escape his past.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
- DirectorCharles SaundersStarsRonald HowardOlga EdwardesJohn BentleyA doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
- DirectorKen HughesStarsPeter ReynoldsRona AndersonPatrick Barr20th Century-Fox gets the blame for distributing this in the USA but they were not the production company in any manner. Peter Reynolds is the screwed-up son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident. His crime spurt is petty until one results in the killing of the night watchman at the college. Roma Anderson, secretary to the professor, is heads-over about Reynolds but he is more interested in a night club entertainer. Reynolds, keeping with the family-affair motif, meets a bad end while being pursued by an undercover agent who is his sister's boyfriend. Title refers to a roulette-wheel call. They did refrain from rolling an 8-ball across his path.
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsGinger RogersVan HeflinGene TierneyA young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsMai ZetterlingDirk BogardeFay ComptonMrs. Christopher (Fay Compton), a kindly volunteer worker at a large hospital, does a favor for a patient by delivering a sum of money to Mr. Sine (James Robertson Justice). After she discovers he is a blackmailer, she threatens to expose him, and a struggle ensues in which she kills him. Her willingness to take the law into her own hands has a disastrous effect on former victims of the blackmailer.
- DirectorRobert S. BakerStarsMaxwell ReedDinah SheridanPatric DoonanA blind man's sight is restored in time to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's dead (or is he) brother and a gang of currency smugglers.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsStewart GrangerValerie HobsonWalter FitzgeraldThe childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsWilliam SylvesterBarbara ShelleyElizabeth ShepherdWhen the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsHardy KrügerStanley BakerMicheline PresleIn 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsDermot WalshJacqueline HillBallard BerkeleyA London Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation into the murder of a small-time crook.