Nightbeat

Dec 22, 1947

1h 31m

★ 5.2

Overview

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Harold Huth Productions

British Lion Film Corporation

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Cast

Julie Kendall

Anne Crawford

Felix Fenton

Maxwell Reed

Andy Kendall

Ronald Howard

Jackie

Christine Norden

Don Brady

Hector Ross

PC Kendall

Fed Groves

Nixon (as Sidney James)

Sidney James

Rocky

Nicholas Stuart

Magistrate

Frederick Leister

Rocky

Michael Medwin

Clerk of Court

Cecil Bevan

Police Recruit

Robert Cawdron

In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.

5.2

Cosh Boy

Feb 1, 1953

Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.

5.6

Stolen Face

May 1, 1952

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.

7.0

Clash by Night

Aug 29, 1964

A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.

7.3

Odd Man Out

Jan 30, 1947

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

6.7

Across the Bridge

Aug 20, 1957

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

5.5

The Sleeping Tiger

Jun 21, 1954

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

7.0

Mine Own Executioner

Nov 22, 1947

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

6.0

Daybreak

May 18, 1948

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

5.7

The Last Page

Jan 25, 1952

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

5.2

The Brothers

May 7, 1947

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

5.8

Blind Date

Aug 1, 1959

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.