Foster Films 16mm Features List

All prices in UK pounds.

ADAM AND EVELYN (B/W) £89.99. Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons. The father of a girl in an orphanage has been writing his daughter, who doesn't remember him, tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes to girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother. 1949 romantic comedy drama. Very good print and condition.

AVALANCHE £79.99. Michael Portman, David Ronder. An adventure story for children involving an English school party on holiday in Austria. Includes an Olympic ski-jumping episode in the Stubetail valley, Innsbruck. The plot involves a reckless ascent of a mountain by two boys, one of whom is injured on the way down, and their subsequent rescue. 1975 Childrens Film Foundation feature. Excellent Lpp polyester print and condition.

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN THE NAVY (B/W) £129.99. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, The Andrews Sisters, Dick Powell. A popular singer who is tired of making all the girls swoon, attemps to avoid his ever-present fans he joins the Navy, but soon finds he is pursued by gal reporter. 1941 classic musical comedy. Excellent print in very good condition.

ACTION FOR SLANDER (B/W) £59.99. Clive Brook, Ann Todd. An army Major forced to take court action to clear his name after being accused of cheating at cards. 1937 Alexander Korda British classic. Excellent print in very good condition.

ARIZONA BOUND (B/W) £39.99. Buck Jones, Tim McCoy. The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. 1941 classic western. Very good print and condition.

AFFAIR WITH A STRANGER (B/W) £49.99. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature. When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married. 1953 romantic comedy. Excellent print and condition.

AND NOW TOMORROW (B/W) £89.99. Allan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward. Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. 1944 classic drama. Very good print and condition.

THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU (B/W) £129.99. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre. A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. 1942 horror comedy classic. Excellent print in very good condition.

THE BANDIT QUEEN (B/W) £79.99. Barbara Britton, Willard Parker. Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. 1950 classic western. Very good print and condition.

BEST OF THE BLUES (aka ST. LOUIS BLUES) (B/W) £69.99. Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan. A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins. 1939 classic musical drama. Excellent print in good condition. Has heavy scratch that comes on goes on left hand side.

BRONCO BILLY £99.99. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke. An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest. 1980 action comedy. Eastman print with good colour and excellent condition.

BEDSIDE MANNER (B/W) £49.99. John Carroll, Ann Rutherford. A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her. 1945 classic comedy. Very good print and condition.

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 (B/W) £99.99. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan. A dancing/singing act trying to make the big time. Frank Morgan (putting on a Broadway show) spots them and wants Astaire in the show to dance opposite his star played by Eleanor Powell. By mistake Murphy gets the part, Astaire falls in love with Powell. MGM musical classic. Excellent print in good condition.

BEYOND THE CURTAIN (B/W) £69.99. Richard Greene, Eva Bartok. East German refugee Karen finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight she is stewardess on between Berlin and the West is forced down. 1960 classic British drama. Excellent print and condition.

BUONA SERA, MRS CAMPBELL £89.99. Gina Lollobrigida, Phil Silvers, Telly Savalas. Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia. 1968 classic comedy. Good Fuji colour print in excellent condition.

BORDER WOLVES (B/W) £59.99. Bob Baker, Constance Moore. Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks them out and sends them after Carson. 1938 classic western. Very good print and condition.

BEAU GESTE (B/W) £79.99. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland. Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs. 1939 classic adventure. Very good print and condition.

THE BAITED TRAP (B/W) £69.99. Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb. Prodigal son (Widmark) must get top gangster (Cobb) across desert to justice despite opposition from gang and family rivalries. 1959 classic crime drama. Very good print and condition.

THE BRIDGE OF ST LUIS REY (B/W) £89.99. Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff. A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims. 1994 classic romantic drama. Excellent print in very good condition.

CAN'T BUY ME LOVE £99.99. Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson. Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clic. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected. 1987 comedy. Excellent polyester Lpp colour print and condition.

CAST A LONG SHADOW (B/W) £89.99. Audie Murphy, Terry Moore. A young man without a surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive. 1959 classic western. Very good print and condition.

THE COMMAND (B/W) £69.99. Guy Madison, Joan Weldon. An army doctor, with no combat experience, is forced to take command of a cavalry troop escorting a wagon train through hostile Indian country when the unit's commanding officer dies. 1954 Warner Bros western classic. Very good print and condition.

COME TO THE STABLE (B/W) £89.99. Loretta Young, Celeste Holm. Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in achieving their dream including a struggling artist, a popular composer, and a renowned racketeer. 1949 classic drama. Excellent print in very good condition.

CLAUDIA (B/W) £99.99. Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young. Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city. 1943 classic comedy drama. Excellent print and condition.

CIPHER BUREAU (B/W) £79.99. Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters. The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent. 1938 classic action drama. Excellent print in very good condition.

CURTAIN UP (B/W) £49.99. Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford. In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. 1951 classic British comedy. English sound with foreign subtitles. Excellent print and condition.

CIRCUMSTANIAL EVIDENCE (B/W) £79.99. Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan. A young lad has his fine new hatchet confiscated by a grumpy baker. The boy's hot-headed father tries to get it back, but this results in a fight in which onlookers seem to see the father use the disputed weapon to strike and kill the baker. At the resulting murder trial, their evidence on this point becomes a matter of life-and-death. 1945 crime drama. Very good print and condition.

CORRIDORS OF BLOOD (B/W) £99.99. Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee. Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig but soon finds himself addicted. 1958 classic horror. Very good print and condition.

CUSTOMS AGENT (B/W) £59.99 William Eythe, Marjorie Reynolds. Bert Sullivan, an agent for the U. S. Customs Service, working in China, blames himself for the killing of his partner, and deliberately gets himself discharged from the service, so he can go undercover and trap the killers. 1950 classic crime drama. Excellent print and condition.

CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK (B/W) £99.99. Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J Correll. Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. 1930 classic comedy. Excellent print and condition.

CITY OF SHADOWS (B/W) £49.99. Victor McLaglen, John Baer. A crafty newsboy and a racketeer team up in this 1955 Republic Crime drama. Excellent print in very good condition.

CRIME DOCTORS MAN HUNT (B/W) £39.99. Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew. The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality. 1946 crime thriller. Excellent print and condition.