A ghostly driver, sudden deaths and a travelling parrot make this 1920s thriller an unnervingly hilarious exploration of our capacity for belief in the supernatural.
Category: Edmund Henbest
Allendale Centre
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Doctor in Love
In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon awakes one morning with a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill – after all he is a doctor!
1974
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Spider’s Web
Clarissa, wife of a diplomat, is adept at spinning tales of adventure but when a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with.
1974
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Doctor in the House
About the off duty lives of a group of medical students, this play weaves their happy triumphs and brave failures, love affairs and parties into a many colored pattern.
1973
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Quiet Weekend
Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.
1973
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The Hollow
An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, arguably Christie’s finest comic grande dame.
1972
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Dinner With The Family
Delachume, a young man of considerable charm and no scruples, is married to a rich, hysterical wife then into Georges’ life comes Isabelle, a quiet young girl with a kind heart.
1972
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Champagne For Breakfast
An evening and morning of riotous misunderstandings and mistaken identities as the guilty parties in question try desperately to keep their romantic secrets secret!
1971
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Yes My Darling Daughter
The decision of a modern miss to conduct her love affair in her own unconventional way, an ambition she achieves by the exercise of a little polite blackmail over her mother.
1965
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Dead On Nine
A man reliant on wife’s money asks for divorce after ten years of marriage, on refusal he attempts to kill her, and then other murders ensue…
1964
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The White Sheep Of The Family
This impious comedy is about a family of well-to-do crooks who are shocked when the son, an excellent forger, quits the fold to go straight. The reason is not long hidden: he has met a girl.
1964
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Holiday Eve
The Fisher family arrive back home from their holiday glad to be back. They find that they left the gas on. the baby will not stop crying so the doctor is sent for and the baby has measles.