Breakaway (1955/6)

Breakaway (1955/6)


Plot Summary

In this thriller, a secret formula purported to prevent metal fatigue during supersonic flight is stolen. Now, rival groups search for it. A kidnapping is also involved.

Murder On Approval/Barbados Quest (1955)

Murder on Approval/Barbados Quest (1955)


Plot Summary

J. D. Everleigh, (Launce Maraschal) a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, (Brian Worth) who says he represents Robert Coburn, (Campbell Cotts) a stamp agent. Everleigh begins to suspect the stamp is a counterfeit and hires private-detective Tom Martin (tom Conway) to investigate. In London, Martin, assisted by Barney Wilson, (Michael Balfour) a reformed crook, learns that the real stamp is still in the hands of Lady Hawksley (Grace Arnold) but she refuses to show it to him. Martin gets friendly with Lady Hawksley's secretary, Jean Larson, (Delphi Lawrence) and learns that Blake is a neer-do-well nephew of Lady Hawksley. Murder also rears its ugly head as Martin finds clues that seem to indicate that everybody he encounters is involved in one way or another with stamp counterfeiting.

Peeping Tom (1960)

Peeping Tom (1960)


Plot Summary

In London, lonely photographer Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) works in a film studio and moonlights by taking cheesecake photos for a magazine store. He lives in the huge house that he had inherited from his parents that is rented to tenants to help him pay the bills and keep the building. Mark was the subject of bizarre experiments on the effects of fear conducted by his scientist father since he was a child and he has become a disturbed man obsessed by the face of frightened women in the moment of death. He kills women filming their faces while he stabs them in the throat. When Mark meets his neighbor and tenant Helen Stephens (Anna Massey) on the day of her birthday, he befriends her and soon he dates the young woman. Mark has a crush on Helen and does not want to film her. But Mark is one of the suspects in the serial killings and a detective is tracking him down.