It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Already in trouble with his superiors over his brutal tactics and alienated from his colleagues, detective Mark Dixon's problems pile up when he accidentally kills a murder suspect and then falls in love with the dead man's wife. Where The Sidewalk Ends is a dark atmospheric noir thriller, with a classic anti hero in the form of Dana Andrews and a suitably torturous path to redemption. find out more...

The wife of a successful psychoanalyst is arrested for shoplifting and only saved from any scandal by a somewhat dubious hypnotist, but what had at first seemed like a blessing gradually desends into blackmail and murder. Whirlpool is a classy slice of noir directed by Preminger and with a script by Ben Hecht. find out more...