Videoteca

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? 1969 star_border 4.6
Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director, two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.

Bomb in the High Street 1961
Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.

Look at Life: Harvest of Hops 1960 star_border 8
A London family sets off for the annual hop-picking in Kent.

Snowball 1960 star_border 7.3
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.

The Shakedown 1960 star_border 5.7
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.

Antarctic Crossing 1958 star_border 5.5
Film of the expedition.

A Day to Remember 1953 star_border 7.2
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.

Holiday Camp 1947 star_border 6.1
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.