When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning..
31 years after the first Bañeros, comes the fifth installment of the saga in which the spa is to be sold to new owners, unless the bañeros find a way to collect the money to pay what they owe and avoid losing their place of work..
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift..
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S..
The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore..
Il était une fois une pauvre bûcheronne et un pauvre bûcheron qui vivaient au fond d’une forêt polonaise. Pauvre bûcheronne se lamentait de ne pas avoir d'enfants. Il était une fois une famille juive, deux jumeaux nouveau-nés et leurs parents, qui se fit arrêter à Paris puis déporter vers le camp d'Auschwitz.Dans le train qui les emportait vers une mort certaine, le père fit un geste insensé. Dans un ultime et dérisoire espoir, il lança un de ses jumeaux hors du train. Un jour que pauvre bûcheronne regardait passer un train qu'elle croyait être de marchandises, un paquet en fut éjecté et tomba dans la neige. Comme un don du ciel, cette petite marchandise s'avéra être celle qu'elle attendait avec tant de ferveur. Une enfant..
David Jason's most famous film appearance of the 1970's was opposite Graham Chapman in 'The Odd Job' but five years earlier he played the lead role in this very low budget comedy. His character is a daydreamer but he manages to get caught up in an adventure involving the hugely underated Imogen Hassall. There is even an appearance from a pre Darth Vader Dave Prowse although his character closer resembles the one he played in 'Callan'..
Joe Hargatay is a police detective who works just for the fun of it, investigating a murder that leads him into a dangerous underground world of drugs, models, models as escorts, Asian and Italian mobs, and his ex-wife..
A Russian gangster kidnaps a woman and her friend, an aging European deceived by a young lover..
Cassandra is In prison for murdering her cheating lover, She escapes disguised as a nurse and ends up on farm where young girls are smuggled to the USA..
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.).
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the family's trucking business is being threatened by a rival who will stop at nothing to ruin their business. They take up the fight against the crooks..
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. 'Cargoes' follows the S.S. Ionian as she delivers her cargo around the Mediterranean - her final peacetime journey..
Oil arrives at the Ayrshire end of the Firth of Clyde: this fine documentary tells the story of the process, and of oil’s use to power Scotland’s industries. Informative throughout and at times very evocative, it was directed by Ruby Grierson, too often overshadowed by her brother John, ‘the father of British documentary’, but a good filmmaker in her own right, who was killed during WWII..
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it..
On his long journey, intergalactic space trucker Eugene occupies himself with mail-ordering various useless gadgets to support his lazy lifestyle. When his merchandise is attacked by a nasty disease, his little robot Han-D can no longer handle the workload. The new high-tech robot saves the merchandise at first, but when it starts taking its job too seriously, Eugene's laziness and belief in technology turn against him..
An odd, lonely outpost appears to be the transit point for some very curious goods..
