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Cinebox Memories

1964. English rock and pop band The Hollies perform the wonderful hit Little Lover.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E

The Yukon Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & George Sanders. G. Emory Partridge returns with a plot to disrupt world communications. Solo and Illya travel to Alaska to stop him. [S]

Inferno

1953. Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming & William Lundigan. A tough business man is left to die with broken leg in the desert by his scheming wife and her lover. [S]

Maxwell

2007. Drama. Director: Colin Barr. Stars David Suchet, Patricia Hodge & Ben Caplan. The final two months of the life of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, as his life is on the brink of collapse. [S]

The Lolo Ferrari Story

2000. An insightful documentary about the life, career and tragic death of French entertainer and dancer Lolo Ferrari, a cultural icon who became the subject of heavy media exploitation.

The Silent Partner

1978. Thriller. Director: Daryl Duke. Stars: Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, John Candy. A bank teller skims $50,000 during a robbery, but the crook wants it back. [S]

The Wild Ride

1960. Director: Harvey Berman. Stars Jack Nicholson, Georgianna Carter & Robert Bean. A rebellious punk spends his days partying and troublemaking until life catches up with him. [S]

The Directors

John Ford is known for his visually powerful westerns with his characters framed against America's stunning natural landmarks. His four Academy Awards for Best Director remain a record. [S]

Batman

Zelda the Great. 1966. Stars Adam West, Barbara Heller & Anne Baxter. Batman and Robin match wits and escape techniques with Zelda the Great and her fiendish master. [S]

Batman

A Death Worse Than Fate. 1966. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Anne Baxter. Zelda is forced to lure Batman and Robin into a possibly unsolvable deathtrap, with hitmen waiting outside if they escape. [S]

Sherlock Holmes

The Case of the Careless Suffragette. 1954. Starring: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford & Archie Duncan. A member of parliament is killed after a suffragette has her croquet ball bomb stolen. [S]

Piccadilly Third Stop

1960. Drama. Directed by Wolf Rilla. Stars Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani & John Crawford. A young playboy petty thief looking for the big time meets a New Yorker in London who is a bad tempered crook. [S]

Gaolbreak

1962. Directed by Francis Searle and starring Peter Reynolds, Avice Landon and David Kernan. A mother and her two sons run a newsagents as a front for their criminal activity. [S]

Faces in the Dark

1960. Drama. Directed by David Eady. Starring John Gregson, Mai Zetterling & John Ireland. Richard, a factory owner, becomes blind during an experiment on the very day his wife wants a divorce. [S]

Dial 999

Special Branch. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Martin Benson & Richard Bebb. A team of assassins plan to kill an American atomic scientist on his arrival in London. [S]

The Buccaneers

Flip and Jenny. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Jane Asher & Robert Hardy. Dan finds two children stowed away on his ship. Their father, an indentured servant, was sent to jail after refusing to work. [S]

The Child and the Killer

1959. Crime. Director: Max Varnel. Stars Patricia Driscoll, Robert Arden & Richard Williams. A US army officer goes on the run after committing murder and orders a young boy to help him to safety. [S]

Look At Life Men In The Mode

1961. A look into the story of the male fashion world and how it is slowly moving toward gaiety and decoration.

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

1958. Comedy. Director: Henry Levin. Stars Tom Ewell & Mickey Rooney. Two crooks rob a bank to buy a racehorse but realise they have to continue robbing banks to support it. [S]

Melody

1971. Comedy. Directed by Waris Hussein. Stars Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde & Jack Wild. Two youngsters declare to their parents they want to get married as soon as possible. [S]

Out of Town

Stour River/Onions. 1986. While it's raining outside his shed, Jack demonstrates his mother's Yorkshire recipe using kidney onions. He then takes a trip along the river Stour. [S]

Dick Turpin

The Blacksmith. 1979. Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Christopher Benjamin & David Daker. Morgan has been captured by Spiker and an attempt at rescue only results in freeing a scoundrel. [S]

Van der Valk

A Rose of Mr Reinhart. Stars Barry Foster, Michael Latimer & Susan Travers. Arlette's intuition proves truer than her husband's after a young woman is threatened in the park. [S]

Night of the Demon

(AKA Curse of the Demon) 1957. Horror. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Stars Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins & Niall MacGinnis. A professor arrives in London and investigates a devil worshipper. [S]

Nights of Cabiria

1957. Drama. Director: Federico Fellini. Stars Giulietta, Francois Perier & Franca Marzi. A waifish prostitute only finds heartbreak while wandering the streets of Rome in search for love.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

1969. Comedy Drama. Directed by Paul Mazursky. Stars Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp & Dyan Cannon. Two couples find liberation in the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. [S]

Dial 999

Mechanical Watchman. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, John Howlett & Peter Allenby. Maguire catches a fur coat thief in the act; however, the other members of the gang remain unknown. [S]

Stagecoach West

The Bold Whip. Wayne Rogers & Robert Bray run a stagecoach line in the Old West, where they come across a wide variety of killers, robbers and ladies in distress. [S]

Batman

A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away. 1966. Stars Adam West, Frank Gorshin & Susan Silo. Batman and Robin try to outsmart the Riddler in a wicked plot to take over the city by kidnapping a king. [S]

Batman

When the Rat's Away, the Mice Will Play. 1966. Stars Adam West, Neil Hamilton & Frank Gorshin. Riddler sends word to Commissioner Gordon about a time bomb, and he calls upon Bruce Wayne for help. [S]

Sherlock Holmes

The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter. 1954. Starring: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford & Archie Duncan. Sherlock is against the clock to locate a bomb hidden in London by an extortionist. [S]

Love from a Stranger

1937. Drama. Stars Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone & Binnie Hale. A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous. [S]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952. Romance. Directed by Henry King & Roy Ward Baker. Stars Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward. A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari near Mount Kilimanjaro. [S]

Fools Rush In

1955. Drama. Director: Victor H. Komow. Stars Frank Silvera, Ken Buckridge & Jean Alexander. A ship with a cargo full of diamonds gets taken over by pirates. [S]

Screenagers! - Glimpses

Early 1960s documentary into the spending habit of 'screenagers' and the cinema goers of the 60s. Brilliant footage of 50s and 60s cinemas and the 'screenagers' themselves.

Up In The World

1956. Comedy. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Stars Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson & Jerry Desmonde. A window cleaner works at a country estate where the owner's son is threatened by kidnappers. [S]

The Duchess of Duke Street

The Outsiders. 1976. Stars Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove & Derek Smith. A modest and kind man is treated like a visiting dignitary when Louisa and Charlie find out the reason for his visit. [S]

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

1978. Crime. Director: Don Sharp. Stars Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, David Warner & John Mills. An engineer attempts to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination. [S]

Julius Hagen Season

Noel is back to explore another film from the producer Julius Hagen and introduces a piece of entertainment history with the 1934 film Music Hall. [S]

Music Hall

1934. Musical. Director: John Baxter. Stars George Carney, Ben Field, Mark Daly & Helena Pickard. A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts. [S]