Posted July 28, 200717 yr Tonight sees the start of BBC2's Best Film Forever show. the first week is thrillers, so what's the best ones? here's some you might know thats cominh up on the bbc during te season: Title: The 39 Steps When a woman is murdered in his home, Richard Hannay finds himself on the run from the killers and police. Only by unmasking a conspiracy can he prove his innocence. Title: The Lady Vanishes An English girl on a train from Switzerland befriends an old woman. But when the woman disappears, her fellow passengers deny ever having seen her. Title: Dirty Pretty Things An illegal immigrant discovers shady activities at the hotel where he works, but can he risk doing the right thing in his precarious position? Title: Gumshoe A Liverpudlian comedian and bingo-caller fantasizes about becoming a private eye like Philip Marlowe, and inadvertently stumbles across a murder. Title: Young And Innocent The prime suspect in a murder case escapes and tries to find the true culprit, with the help of the daughter of the chief of police. Title: Obsession Driven mad by his wife's continuous adultery, the resourceful Dr. Clive Riordan plots to kill her latest lover down in his strange laboratory. Title: From Russia With Love The superspy is on the trail of a top secret Russian decoding device alongside glamorous defector Tatiana Romanova, but will an ingenious trap be the end of Bond? Title: Noose An American fashion journalist and her ex-commando fiance take on a black market racketeer and Soho nightclub owner. Title: A Cottage on Dartmoor Joe, a barber's assistant infatuated with his colleague Sally takes drastic action when she spurns him for a local farmer. Title: Goldfinger Bond is on the hunt for Goldfinger, a man obsessed with the precious metal who's planning a scheme that will alter the economies of the Western world. Title: The Ipcress File Suave secret agent and culinary enthusiast, Harry Palmer, exposes a double agent who kidnaps British scientists to sabotage their work. Title: Pulp A pulp fiction writer is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of faded Hollywood star rumoured to have mafia connections, who's murdered soon after they meet. Title: Odd Man Out A badly wounded IRA Gunman with divided loyalties is hindered and helped in his attempts to escape from the authorities in Belfast. Title: HellDrivers An ex-con takes a job as a ballast driver in a tough company, where he encounters a world of dangerous conditions, murderous rivalry and corruption. Title: Clash By Night A bus load of prisoners is hijacked and its passengers locked in a petrol soaked barn. But with sparks flying on Bonfire Night, can they escape? Title: Following A solitary writer stalks strangers through the streets of London for literary inspiration, only to be lured into a world of crime by one of his targets. Title: Scarlet Thread A sleazy petty criminal accidentally kills an innocent bystander during a bungled robbery, then asks a professor’s daughter for protection.
July 28, 200717 yr Best British thriller is Long Good Friday, no contest I agree. They were just discussing it now as well. ^_^
July 28, 200717 yr I think to call From Russia With Love a thriller is pushing it. Well it is a Spy Thriller, like all the Bond films, so it seems pretty fair to me. ^_^
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