CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND (1958)
André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald.
The story is set at a brutal Japanese POW camp, where sadism is a way
of life. The evil commandant has sworn to wipe out all the inmates if
Japan loses the war. The English prisoners know that this has already
happened, thus they're forced to keep the news secret from their
captors-at least until they can stage a daring escape.
HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)
Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee.
Sherlock Holmes,
Hammer style. The plot concerns a supposed curse on the Baskerville family line.
Doctor Mortimer believes that the recently deceased Sir Charles
Baskerville died because of his encounter with a hellhound that comes
to claim all the heirs to the Baskerville title. Hoping to prevent
another tragedy, Mortimer engages the services of Sherlock Holmes
to protect Sir Henry Baskerville, recently arrived from South Africa
to claim his Uncle’s title and estate.
MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959)
Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee.
Dr Georges Bonner has found that regular replacements of
certain glands every decade will retard the aging process. He's lived
to 104 years old and is nearing the time for his next operation but
his now aged partner, Dr Ludwig Weiss is unexpectedly delayed by a
stroke and Bonner has to turn to murder in order to obtain a glandular
fluid vital to his process. Complications set in when Bonner tries to
persuade another doctor, Pierre to take over the operation and Bonner's
former fiancé, Janine catches up with him.
THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY (1960)
Guy Rolfe, Jan Holden, Andrew Cruickshank, George Pastell.
The British East India Company is disturbed by a number of
unexplained disappearances of travelers in India and sends military
officer Connaught-Smith to investigate. Captain Lewis is dismayed that
the relatively inexperienced Connaught-Smith has been assigned to the
case and when his servant goes missing, Lewis carries out his own
investigation and discovers a cult of murderous Thuggees.
NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1960) Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt.
Sensitive drama about a family whose young daughter is enticed by an
elderly child molester, but who also is one of the founders of the Canadian
town they inhabit. The family meets opposition from the fellow townsfolk
until real tragedy strikes.
THE TERROR OF THE TONGS (1961)
Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Toone,
Yvonne Monlaur.
In Hong Kong, 1900,
the Red Dragon Tong kill Helena, the daughter of a British sailor,
Captain Jackson. Seeking vengeance, Jackson begins to track down the
shadowy organisation via one of its 'collectors'. Eventually he traces
the gang to its lair but is captured by its evil leader, Chung King and
is tortured. He is rescued by an undercover anti-tong agent but is a
marked man, uncovering Tong corruption in even the upper echelons of
the East India Trading Company.
SCREAM OF FEAR (1961) aka TASTE OF FEAR
Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee.
A wheelchair-bound young woman named Penny goes to visit her stepmother
and her father's Riviera resort. Although she is told he is away on
business, his corpse appears throughout the mansion.
NIGHT CREATURES (1962) aka CAPT. CLEGG
Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain.
Dymchurch, 1792: villagers are being terrified by 'marsh phantoms',
sinister figures that only come out at nights to stalk the nearby
Romney Marshes. Captain Collier is sent to investigate with a team of
revenue men and uncovers a smuggling ring run by the village vicar,
Dr Blyss...
PARANOIC (1963)
Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham.
A long time ago Simon's parents died and shortly
thereafter Antony committed `suicide'. Simon's sister is considered
insane and one day as she is about to commit suicide herself she is
rescued by long dead brother Antony. Everyone eventually is convinced
of Antony's authenticity except for Simon because only he knows the
shocking truth.
THE DAMNED (1963) aka THESE ARE THE DAMNED
Macdonald
Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox.
In Weymouth, American Simon Wells is attacked by a gang of
local thugs led by the brutal King, who resents Wells flirting with
his sister Joanie. When King and his gang later try to attack Wells
again, he and Joanie fall from a cliff and are rescued by a group of
children who emerge from a nearby research facility run by scientist
Bernard. The children are the radioactive subjects of experiments
being run by Bernard, the offspring of women exposed to high levels
of radiation to produce children capable of surviving a nuclear war.
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1963)
Tom Poston,
Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell.
Tom Penderel is asked by his flat mate to deliver a car to
his ancestral home, Femm Hall on Dartmoor and meets the eccentric
Femm family. He soon realises that a vast inheritance has been left
to the house itself and the family must remain in the house each night
until midnight to claim their share of the fortune. Before long, the
bodies are starting to pile up...
THE MANIAC (1963)
Kerwin Matthews, Norman Bird, Liliane Brousse, Nadia Gray.
In the south of France, a vengeful Georges Beynat murders
the rapist of his daughter with a blowtorch. Four years later,
American artist Geoffrey Farrell is drawn into a web of intrigue by
Eve Beynat who, with her lover Henri, plans to frame him for the
murder of her now deranged husband.
NIGHTMARE (1964)
David Knight,
Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce.
Schoolgirl Janet is so traumatised by witnessing her mother
murdering her father that she starts to have visions that she will
end up a killer herself and will end up in a psychiatric institution.
Driven to distraction by a series of strange happenings, Janet stabs
to death Helen Baxter, the wife of her guardian, Henry. With the help
of a sympathetic teacher, Janet starts to uncover a cruel conspiracy
against her...
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