Harry Hawkins (Alastair Sim) has been introducing the pompous and self-important to the grim reaper from an early age. A professional assassin, his next job is to dispose of Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley), a Cabinet minister. However, various unpredictable and often humorous obstacles stand in Hawkins' way, in this stupendously silly comedy of errors.
When a Hollywood movie company arrives, stars in tow, to make a picture, the village of St Mary Mead is delighted. However, when a local woman is murdered, and the poison seems to have been intended for a visiting movie star, local detective Inspector Craddock (Edward Fox) turns to his Auntie, Mi...
Much criticised at the time of its release, Michael Powell’s psychological study of a shy camera technician who films for his home movies the death throes of the women he kills is now widely regarded as a dark classic. Less a straightforward serial-killer thriller than a Freudian meditation on ho...
It is 1912, and the shadow of war looms over a wealthy family. As they celebrate their eldest daughter's engagement in their lavish Yorkshire manor, they're interrupted by an ominous police detective who is investigating a young woman's suicide, and what role each of them played in her death.
