AustLit

An adaptation of the work The Devil's Double, covering the period in which Latif Yahia allegedly worked as a body double for Uday Hussein.

'It's 1974 and Rod, a young music promoter, is in for his biggest challenge. He's convinced Frank Sinatra to come back to Oz. Now Rod's in for the ride of his life as everything that can go wrong does...and all Frank has to do is say sorry!'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/3/2014)

'Alan, a schoolteacher living in London, becomes romantically involved with an Italian-born female cat burglar, whose nickname is B. Monkey. Before giving up her criminal activities for a more peaceful life with Alan, B. Monkey is asked to perform one last "job" to help out her homosexual flatmate, Paul, who owes money to a gangster.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/533194). (Sighted: 4/3/2014)

'Story of the fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, and the two most important people in his life: John Lennon and Astrid Kirchherr. It is a passionate and tragic love story set during the Beatles' wild months in Hamburg.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/486566). (Sighted: 4/3/2014)

'Johnny Faro runs an aircraft salvage company. One day his wife receives news that he has died in an airplane crash but when she goes to inspect the scene she realises he is still alive and has run off. She sets out to track him down using his set of baseball cards which contain the key to a number of bank accounts where he has stashed over $800,000.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/461517). (Sighted: 4/3/2014)

Frank is drawn to Vanuatu by a summons from his brother Charlie but, arriving to find Charlie dead, he is drawn into the orbit of his brother's partner Viv and Viv's unhappy wife.

A dramatisation of the Profumo Affair, which helped bring down Harold Macmillan's government in the UK in 1963.

According to contemporary television guides:

'Charles Dance plays a film critic who spots something nasty in a rear window in The McGuffin, an affectionate tribute to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel by John Bowen.'

(The Times, 11 January 1986, p.36)

Contemporary reviews were not all positive. One review, covering the films entered into that year's Mythfest, notes that

'Unfortunatly [sic] the film (made for BBC Television) wanders off into in-jokes about films and festivals which must be incomprehensible to most of the audience and for the others embarrassing in their film-school naivety.'

('Half a Century's Inspiration', The Times, 22 July 1986, p.15)

'A dramatisation of the heroic yet ironic story of the first white men to cross the Australian continent.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/3/2014)

'Medieval fantasy telling the story of two young lovers who have fallen under a spell cast by an evil bishop. By day Navarre is a knight who travels with a hawk, at night he is transformed into a wolf, and the hawk becomes the lady Isabeau. Imperius, who once betrayed the lovers to the bishop, helps them to undo the spell.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/258751). (Sighted: 28/2/2014)

A world-famous doctor becomes caught in the orbit of an ancient vampire who promises her lovers eternal life but fails to mention that she cannot promise them eternal youth.

A young American couple crash land in Jamaica and find themselves rescued by a local fisherman when the corrupt government wants to use them as a fabricated example of American political tyranny.