72 years ago:
Encore (UK)
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed...
1951-06-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/197647
#Encore #GlynisJohns #NigelPatrick #RolandCulver #Film

69 years ago:
Forbidden Cargo (UK)
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
1954-05-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/176546
#ForbiddenCargo #HaroldFrench #JackWarner #NigelPatrick #TerenceMorgan #AnneVCoates #WomenInFilm #Film

63 years ago:
The League of Gentlemen (UK)
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hy...
1960-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46724
#TheLeagueofGentlemen #JackHawkins #NigelPatrick #RogerLivesey #ClassicMovies

72 years ago:
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (UK)
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
1951-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38688
#PandoraandtheFlyingDutchman #JamesMason #AvaGardner #NigelPatrick #Movies

83 years ago:
Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard (UK)
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
1940-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/375053
#MrsPymofScotlandYard #MaryClare #NigelPatrick #IreneHandl #ClassicMovies