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Station Six-Sahara (1962)
A beautiful blonde (Carroll Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
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You Must be Joking (1965)
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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Blade on the Feather (1980)
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer…but both men are more than they claim to be.
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
Katharine Hepburn as Mrs. Delafield, a widow who falls in love with her Jewish doctor – to her and his children’s objection.
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Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
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Scorchers (1991)
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendids’ cousin has her own problems. Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.
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The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a pilot is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the Dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
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Madame Sin (1972)
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman’s plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
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The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity is a 1988 television movie adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel The Bourne Identity. The film was directed by Roger Young for Warner Bros. Television with Richard Chamberlain in the title role. It follows the storyline of the original novel, with a run-time of 3 hours 5 min. With commercials added, the running time was extended to four hours. The film was first shown on ABC in two two-hour installments over two nights.
The book author, Robert Ludlum died in 2001. His spy fiction thriller The Bourne Identity was filmed again in 2002 by Doug Liman starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, with considerable deviations from the original Cold War novel.
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A Murder of Quality (1991)
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband’s hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife’s death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other’s little secrets and then gossip about them – or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré’s 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre”s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
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Bleak House
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.
It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in the role of John Jarndyce. In the United States the series ran under the Masterpiece Theatre series umbrella.
A notable plot omission in this version is the story of Caddy Jellyby and the Turveydrop family.
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