AustLit

The world's most accident-prone man, Roger Crumpkin, works as a handyman for the world's largest free-range egg company, run out of the Sydney Egg House (formerly the Sydney Opera House). When he uncovers a plot by his employer to lace the eggs with nicotine, he and his employer's girlfriend Sunday Valentine (a former chicken sexer and UFO enthusiast) must stop him.

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.

The Shoes of the Fisherman is set a decade or more into the future, a time when the world is on the brink of war due to a Chinese-Soviet feud over trade restrictions brought against China by the U.S. This has resulted in a widespread famine. At the same time, Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is being set free after twenty years in Siberia as a political prisoner. After being brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest, Lakota is given an immediate audience with the Pope, who elevates him to Cardinal Priest. When the Pontiff suddenly dies, Lakota's genuine character and unique life experience move the College of Cardinals to elect him as the new Pope. But Pope Kiril I must now not only deal with his own self-doubt and the struggle of his friend Fr. Telemond, who is under scrutiny for his beliefs, but also find a solution to the crisis in China.

A (largely negative) review in the Times notes:

'Boysie Oakes is another innocent involved in espionage: he is given a license to kill by British Intelligence, but as he would not hurt a fly himself he has to hire a professional killer to do the job for him. Then he gets involved in an elaborate double-bluff involving an assassination attempt on the Duke of Edinburgh as a cover for something quite different'.

Source:

'Perfect Ealing Subject–From Hollywood', The Times, 25 August 1966, p.6.

'The fight of an adventurer against a usurping duke in the 16th century.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/51730). (Sighted: 9/9/2013)

An ageing race-car driver finds that he is losing his competitive edge. When he tries racing under the sponsorship of an American tire company, he falls in love with the sponsor's daughter, who pleads with him to stop driving. Adding more pressure to the man's life is his younger brother, who swore to his mother that he would not drive until his older brother retired. The older brother still wants to prove himself, and so enters a 1000-mile Italian race. When his mechanic-navigator is killed, the ageing driver quits and the younger brother finally gets to drive.

A television script-writer, believing that he has murdered the man who is blackmailing him over nude photographs of his wife, buries the body under the gazebo, but still has to deal with the other three members of the man's gang.

Follows Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her polio diagnosis and treatment, and her career comeback.

Louise Durant is a rich young woman who follows the man she loves (and hopes to marry) to Zurich, where he has travelled to finish his study of the violin. Complications arise when a fellow piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second, while the pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants. Inspired by Henry Handel Richardson's 1908 novel, this Hollywood adaptation see the story end happily, which is not the case in Richardson's novel.

A Hollywood screenplay based on Dale Collins's novel Ordeal (1924), the narrative develops around a yachting party of rich socialites sailing from Shanghai. When they fall into the hands of a mutineering crew, the party finds itself at the mercy of the ship's insane steward. Lady Daly, one of the socialites is, however, quite indifferent to the whole situation.