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John Gilling (29 May 1912 – 22 November 1984) was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was chiefly known for his horror films, especially for Hammer Films, for whom he directed Shadow of the Cat (1961), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966) (the latter two filmed back to back in Cornwall) and The Mummy's Shroud, among others. He is also renowned for many low to mid-budget detective films and teleplays with unexpected touches of comedy blended in.
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01 March 1952
When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it.
01 December 1952
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns out that the man they believe is responsible is long since dead.
01 August 1953
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother.
01 March 1952
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
23 September 1936
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures.
01 November 1950
A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seems to be.
01 December 1952
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all od
01 July 1947
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld.
01 January 1963
In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant.
01 July 1954
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
01 September 1952
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
01 March 1954
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
01 July 1949
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
01 March 1953
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
01 February 1955
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police.
01 January 1952
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders.
21 January 1951
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink.
13 September 1950
A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
21 September 1956
Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and circuses.
19 September 1955
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray.
29 March 1975
A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.
01 December 1949
An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.
01 September 1963
A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies.
17 September 1957
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.
16 June 1954
The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well.
01 December 1953
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
01 April 1952
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers.
01 April 1959
British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.
01 December 1953
A U.S. sailor docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
01 March 1951
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman.
01 May 1953
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
01 January 2007
Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in celebration of the Jubilee of the Year of Our Lord 2000, The Vatican Museums was the culmination of three years of research and filming, the collaboration of thirty-two scholars and historians from around the world, a crew of forty directors of photography, operators, and lighting technicians, state-of-the-art digital cinematography, lighting, animation, and computerized editing, and the work of a famous composer with original performances by master musicians.
18 October 1964
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone.
17 June 1948
In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road.
31 January 1950
A woman conspires to steal her stepdaughter's inheritance following the mysterious death of her millionaire husband.
01 December 1956
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
06 September 1966
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy fr,
09 May 1962
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
02 February 1960
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens.
07 September 1958
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
08 September 1950
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
01 March 1961
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores.
05 July 1952
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
15 May 1950
In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
09 August 1965
1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army.
01 May 1949
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried.
24 October 1970
Anthropologist Dr Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte — an Ice Age 'missing link': half-caveman, half-ape — in a local cave.
15 March 1967
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum.
01 April 1956
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
17 May 1960
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.
11 July 1952
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure.
06 March 1966
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population.
01 January 1952
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called in to solve the case of a suicide which the father of the deceased woman thinks was murder.
22 March 1950
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
01 June 1948
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin.
01 October 1959
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared.
02 January 1966
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population.
01 May 1961
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress.
31 December 1965
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
24 March 1959
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
