Philip Leaver
1904 - 1963The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
The Lady Vanishes
The Tales of Hoffmann
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina
A young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Flesh and the Fiends
John Gilling
Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence
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...
The Flesh and the Fiends
The Silver Fleet
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
The Silver Fleet
Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress
Godfrey Grayson
Valentine Dyall, Julia Lang
An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret behind the disappearance.
Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress
A Tale of Five Cities
Wolfgang Staudte, Irma von Cube
Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
A Tale of Five Cities
