Lionel Jeffries

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Admin — Sun, 31 Oct 1971 00:00:00 +0000

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre “Hansel and Gretel” twist.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Admin — Tue, 17 Dec 1968 00:00:00 +0000

An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can’t seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.

Camelot

Admin — Wed, 25 Oct 1967 00:00:00 +0000

The romance between Guinevere and Lancelot destroys King Arthur”s dream kingdom.

First Men in the Moon

Admin — Wed, 01 Jul 1964 00:00:00 +0000

Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world’s astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

The Long Ships

Admin — Wed, 24 Jun 1964 00:00:00 +0000

In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of “The Mother of Voices,” a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but he adds enough incorrect details to throw them off the proper trail. However, Aly Mansuh, the leader of a group of ambitious Moors, sees through Rolfe’s story, and soon the two are in a breakneck race to be the first to capture the precious bell.

Murder Ahoy

Admin — Mon, 01 Jun 1964 00:00:00 +0000

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

Fanny

Admin — Wed, 28 Jun 1961 00:00:00 +0000

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe’-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.

Tarzan the Magnificent

Admin — Wed, 20 Jul 1960 00:00:00 +0000

After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman’s family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.

Idol on Parade

Admin — Tue, 24 Mar 1959 00:00:00 +0000

A rock’n’roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

The Revenge of Frankenstein

Admin — Sun, 01 Jun 1958 00:00:00 +0000

Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve, transplants a dwarf’s brain into another body and unleashes a deranged being.