George Mills Movies
- 1978
- R
A group of summer campers who haven't seen each other in over a decade are called up by the camp owner for a strange reunion. Each of the guests brings a ton of emotional baggage as they try to figure out why they are there and try to work out past differences to relieve the past. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Abrams, Jake Barnes, (more)
- 1964
Documentary filmmaker Stanley Goulder directed this disturbing thriller which was shot independently at a budget of $75,000 in only twenty-four days. The film deals with a mentally retarded boy, released from the hospital prematurely, who wants to make friends with some neighborhood kids at the local movie house. In the hospital, he came across what he thought were some colorful candies; they were, in fact, barbiturates. He dispenses the drugs to the children at a matinee showing and the children end up drugged and extremely ill. The parents frantically call in the police to investigate as the retarded child's mother frets about what may happen to her son. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roland Curram, Bernard Archard, (more)
- 1959
Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty Dutch artist, Jan Van Rooyen (Hardy Kruger), caught in an upscale cottage where a woman lies murdered. Hard-nosed, irritable Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) is certain Van Rooyen is guilty and begins to grill him about his story. The artist finally admits that he and the dead woman, Jacqueline Cousteau (Micheline Presle), had met by accident and eventually began a love affair. She was married, so they kept their liaison a secret. Inspector Morgan then informs him that the woman was single but involved with a high-level diplomat. So what is going on? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, (more)
- 1957
A young David McCallum heads the cast of the British melodrama The Secret Place. Set amongst the bombed-out buildings of London's East Side, the film concerns the misdeeds of a two-bit criminal gang headed by Gerry Carter (Ronald Lewis). In a fit of inspiration, Carter masterminds a meticulously planned diamond robbery, actually succeeding in swiping the precious gems. Unfortunately for the crooks, the diamonds accidentally come into the the possession of Freddie Haywood (Michael Brooke), a policeman's son. McCallum plays Mike Wilson, the sullen teddy-boy brother of Carter's girlfriend Molly (Belinda Lee), who tries to inveigle Freddie into giving up the diamonds. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Belinda Lee, David McCallum, (more)
- 1952
If the plot of the 1993 Kevin Costner film A Perfect World seemed vaguely familiar, perhaps it's because it bears a more than passing resemblance to the British-made 1952 thriller The Hunted (U.S. title: Stranger in Between). Dirk Bogarde stars in this emotional melodrama as an escaped murderer, sloshing through the North Country mud. Bogarde is reluctantly saddled with a fugitive orphan boy (Jon Whitely), who insists upon tagging along. The murderer ends up sacrificing his freedom to rescue the injured boy from certain death. While The Hunted was greeted with moderate enthusiasm in Britain, its virtues were trumped by the French film critics of the era. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, (more)
- 1936
John Gillespie is a publisher enduring a crisis: his partner has left town with all the firm's money, and Gillespie will be ruined if he cannot come up with capital quickly. With no other resources, he turns to his wealthy Aunt Mary, who is decidedly unsympathetic to his plight and refuses to loan him the money. Full of despair, Gillespie hails a taxi -- and discovers a windfall of £2,000 therein. Wary of what could happen, he hides it in a rented room and decides not to take his wife into his confidence, telling her that he has taken the room to conduct business. In the midst of all this, his aunt is discovered dead under suspicious circumstances, with her safe found to have been broken into. Gillespie is interviewed by the police and -- nervous and afraid that he would have to give up the £2,000 he discovered in the taxi if he tells them the truth --he is unable to account for his actions and is promptly arrested. With a charge of murder soon to be leveled at him, Gillespie finds himself relying on the efforts of a former servant to help prove his innocence. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide
