Robert Hamer

Dead of Night -- Exploring themes sparked in MANHUNTER, the 1986 Michael Mann film

Jamaica Inn -- In Cornwall, around 1800, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he assumes is that of his double, Count Jacques de Gue, who has none of John's upright, moral character. Once ensconced as the Count, John discovers that the Count's mother (Bette Davis) is addicted to morphine, his wife (Irene Worth) believes he is out to kill her, and the Count's brother-in-law (Peter Bull) is embezzling funds away from the family business. And those are just a few of his problems, alleviated somewhat by his mistress (Nicole Murray). Once John realizes how decadent and immoral the Count really is he feels duty-bound to challenge him to a duel. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

This vintage romantic comedy from director Robert Hamer stars Alec Guinness as Sir Edgar Fraser, a middle-aged aristocrat who journeys to Paris with his twentysomething son, John (Vernon Gray), in order to find the lad a girlfriend. But John hatches his own scheme to land his lonesome pop a woman -- and soon the two become entangled with cute shopgirls, blue-blooded dames and one madcap misunderstanding after another.