Eliot Makeham Movies

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's...

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two...

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...