Acting
Brian Peck was an English actor known for Nicholas Nickleby (1957), Mary Barton (1964) and An Englishman's Castle (1978). He married Jennifer Wilson in 1959.
Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to fool Mike's ex-convict dad Sam Roscoe (Mervyn Johns). The son hopes to entice Sam into revealing the whereabouts of his stolen money, and Paula is hopefully going to do the trick. Based on a novel by Jonathan Burke, Echo of Barbara is a better-than-usual British programmer, entertaining despite its surplus of unpleasant leading characters.
Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.
Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
Based on the sequence of events which led to the deaths of two young trackmen, concluding with an enquiry into the reasons why they were killed. Intended for railway staff responsible for track maintenance, particularly those in supervisory grades.
Covers safety procedures in track maintenance work. Intended primarily for track maintenance staff and use on induction courses.
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Ma Barker and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list in the 1930s.