Sidney Gilliat
1) Jamaica Inn
Author
Language
English
Description
On the stormy coast of Cornwall a ruthless group of people entice ships onto the rocks to loot their cargoes. Mary, played by Maureen O'Hara's uncle, is the ringleader and feels that her life is in danger.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Michael works as a Rolls Royce chauffeur for rich Americans on tours around Europe. When he meets Ellie, a lovely young American, a love affair soon develops between them. But they are interrupted by a strange, sinister old woman who warns Ellie - 'Go now before the harm is done!' ENDLESS NIGHT is based on a suspense novel by Agatha Christie and stars Hayley Mills and George Sanders.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007, c1938
Edition
Full screen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Travelers on a trans-European train are put up in a hotel for the night due to bad weather. Shortly after the journey begins in the morning, people begin to disappear.
4) Wee Geordie
Publisher
Lear Media
Pub. Date
200-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Scottish boy turns to a mail-order body building course to increase his height and strength. His interest in body building and hammer throwing, lead him to represent Britain in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
"Compact, propulsive screenplay ..."--Variety.
"One of the finest spy films ever."--TV Guide.
Series
Criterion collection volume 375
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having grown up despising everything British, a young Birdie Quilty leaves her hometown hoping to join the IRA, but naively gets caught up with a Nazi spy. She is eventually helped to escape authorities by a British officer who has fallen in love with her.
8) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Laserlight
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish orphan girl (Mary) ... lives on the rugged coast of Cornwall with her uncle. After several vessels smash on the deadly rocks, Mary begins to suspect it's more than accidental. By the time she realizes what's going on, she is a target for the marauding smugglers and highwaymen who are ravaging the area.
Publisher
Hollywood's Attic
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Sultan of Makyad decides to send his favourite daughter to an English school and chooses St Trinian's because it is conveniently close to the stables where his racehorses are trained. But complications develop when Arabella, leader of the 'Sixth Form Gang' at school, is encouraged by her bookmaker father to kidnap the Sultan's prize thoroughbred."--Cover.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nice, tweedy old English woman disappears from her compartment on a European train. A young woman who wonders why becomes frantic when everyone tells her there never was such a person. A young man comes to her aid and they solve a criss-cross puzzle of espoinage, counter-espionage and attempted assassination.
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A yound woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
12) Endless Night
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the terrifying suspense novel by Agatha Christie, the legendary writer of Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mirror Crack'd and Ten Little Indians, Endless Night stars Hayley Mills (That Darn Cat!, Appointment with Death) as a wealthy heiress who moves into a magnificent dream house with her new husband. But when murder begins to make itself at home, the stage is set for a stunning climax that...