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...

An American returns to his ancestral home in Wales to make amends with his father. He buys a walking-stick in an antique shop off a lass named Gwen, gets involved with some local gypsies and is bitten by a wolf, something which turns out to have rather unfortunate consequences. 'The Wolf Man' is the template werewolf flick and with its stellar horror flick cast rates as an iconic film of its era. find out more...