Charles Victor

The Prince and the Showgirl -- A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

Fear in the Night -- A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.

Francis (John Kerr) visits the gloomy Spanish castle of his late sister Elizabeth's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), to learn the reason for her death. Nicholas fears his wife isn't really dead and that her spirit wanders the halls at night. Seems Nicholas's father was a feared leader of the Spanish Inquisition; as a child, Nicholas saw his father torture his mother and bury her alive, and he's convinced Elizabeth has suffered a similar fate.

A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

The combination of Marilyn Monroe's light comic skills and Sir Laurence Olivier's magnificent dramatic talent make for a delightful and enchanting period romance. A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations. Through her guileless approach to both love and politics, Monroe charms them into reconciliation.

Through an amusing series of mistakes and misunderstandings, Peter (Brian Reece) and his old flame, Carol (Kay Kendall), get snared in an unending chain of compromising situations while trying to reconnect with their respective spouses, who've grown quite suspicious. When their car breaks down, Peter and Carol seek shelter in a quaint inn, where they reluctantly pretend to be married and share the only available room.

Now old, ill, poor, and forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very the young and handsome William Green, an inventor searching for a way to project moving pictures.

Devoted newlyweds Julie (Petula Clark) and Basil Topham (David Tomlinson) are entered in the village's annual competition to see which married couple can stay the happiest for a year. But the arrival of luscious Hungarian maid Marta (Sonja Ziemann) threatens their chances. The Tophams also cope with interfering in-laws, a bumbling vicar and his sister, and the disappearance of the prize: a huge side of bacon.

Three stories by W. Somerset Maugham make up an engaging dramatic suite, beginning with "The Ant and the Grasshopper," which features Nigel Patrick and Roland Culver as two brothers struggling with each other's opposite personalities. "Winter Cruise" is a tongue-in-cheek tale of shipboard romance, with Kay Walsh playing an overly talkative spinster. "Gigolo and the Gigolette" relates the trials of a husband-and-wife vaudeville act in Monte Carlo.

The Man Who Cheated Himself

The Man Who Cheated Himself