š„ Murder At The Windmill (1949), Strangers On A Train (1951), I Only Arsked (1958), Dead Manās Evidence (1962), Scoob! (2020)
Murder At The Windmill (1949)
Filmed at the renowned Windmill Theatre in London, the movie begins when a man is found dead following a performance.
It turns out that he has been shot and the police are called.
Having been killed from the stage, the police immediately suspect someone who works at the theatre, so they make everyone stay behind to then put on an identical performance in order to work out everyoneās position and location on the stage.
The murderer is one of the stage hands who didnāt like the way that the man he shot had been causing trouble for some of the actors. Stars Jon Pertwee as one of the police officers and Jimmy Edwards as himself.
Strangers On A Train (1951)
A black and white Alfred Hitchcock movie, I thoroughly enjoyed Strangers On A Train.
Guy Haines (played by Farley Granger) meets a stranger Bruno Antony (played by Robert Walker) on a train.
The latter knows all about the former, including the fact that heās going through a divorce and wants to marry again.
He suggests that Guy Haines kills his father, while he murders Hainesā wife, who is playing awkward with the divorce.
Haines is not interested, but as the movie develops, Bruno Antony actually kills his wife and then stalks Haines, insisting that he keeps his side of the bargain, even though he didnāt agree to anything.
An excellent plot – as you would expect with Alfred Hitchcock – and it all works out well in the end for Guy Haines.
As always, Hitchcock plays a cameo role, in this case a man boarding the train with a double bass in his hand.
I Only Arsked (1958)
A Hammer black & white comedy.
Starring Alfie Bass, Michael Bentine, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey and Norman Rossington.
A group of misfit soldiers are sent to the Middle East, where they mess everything up.
When they finally get the chance to become rich, following the discovery of oil, their previous request to go home is granted, so even that goes wrong.
The film ends with Bresslaw saying his catchphrase, āI only arskedā.
Dead Manās Evidence (1962)
When a frogman is washed up dead on an Irish beach, UK government agent, David Baxter (played by Conrad Philips), is sent to investigate, as he recognises a ring on the manās hand.
Itās all part of an elaborate plot though to trap Baxter, as heās actually a double-agent.
He realises heās trapped when the girl heās with (who is part of the plot herself), has taken him across the border to Northern Ireland, so that he can be arrested on British territory.
After a brief altercation, heās shot dead.
Scoob! (2020)
An animated film that begins with a young Shaggy meeting a young Scooby Doo.
Some years later, Dick Dastardly appears on the scene and snatches Scooby Doo.
Following a fantasy adventure, eventually the gang rescues Scooby Doo and traps the villain, who turns out to be Dick Dastardly pretending to be Simon Cowell who is then pretending to be Dick Dastardly.
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