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Born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, to a Swiss-French mother and an American father, Peter Arne was an actor and an antique dealer who was murdered in 1983. In the late 1940s, Arne and his partner Jack Corke befriended acclaimed novelist Mary Renault and her partner, Julie Mullard, on the SS Cairo, a steamer bound from Britain to South Africa and convinced them to go into business building homes for immigrants to the country. Renault financed using her £25,000 MGM award, employing labourers and craftsmen to begin construction of several houses, but Arne and Corke squandered the money, racking up debts before stealing Renault's car and returning to the UK to avoid charges of embezzlement. On 1st August 1983, Arne attended a costume fitting for a role in Doctor Who. On his return home, neighbours reported sounds of an argument to the police who subsequently found Arne's body inside his Knightsbridge flat. He had been bludgeoned to death with a stool and log from his fireplace. The prime suspect in Arne's murder was Giuseppe Perusi, a schoolteacher from Italy who had been living rough in a local park, and for whom Arne had been providing food. Four days later, a body matching Perusi's description was found in the River Thames at Wandsworth, having drowned in an apparent suicide. At the subsequent inquest in October 1983, Police concluded that Perusi had beaten the actor to death then killed himself.

Curse of the Pink Panther ( 1983) | IMDb: 4.3

Comedy , Crime , Mystery

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

Starring:

David Niven , Robert Wagner , Herbert Lom , Joanna Lumley , Capucine , Robert Loggia

Directed by:

Blake Edwards

Produced by:

Blake Edwards , Gerald T. Nutting , Jonathan D. Krane

Victor/Victoria ( 1982) | IMDb: 7.6

Comedy , Music , Romance

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Starring:

Julie Andrews , James Garner , Robert Preston , Lesley Ann Warren , Alex Karras , John Rhys-Davies

Directed by:

Blake Edwards

Produced by:

Mary Selway , Denis Johnson Jr , Blake Edwards

Agatha ( 1979) | IMDb: 6.2

Drama , Mystery , Thriller

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Starring:

Dustin Hoffman , Vanessa Redgrave , Timothy Dalton , Helen Morse , Celia Gregory , Paul Brooke

Directed by:

Jonathan Benson , Matthew Binns , Michael Apted

Produced by:

Mary Selway , Gavrik Losey , Dustin Hoffman

The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975) | IMDb: 7

Comedy , Crime , Mystery

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.

Starring:

Peter Sellers , Christopher Plummer , Catherine Schell , Herbert Lom , Peter Arne , Peter Jeffrey

Directed by:

Blake Edwards , Guy Sauteret , Bert Batt

Produced by:

Blake Edwards , Kevin O'Driscoll , Peter Samuelson

Straw Dogs ( 1971) | IMDb: 7.4

Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Starring:

Dustin Hoffman , Susan George , Peter Vaughan , T. P. McKenna , Del Henney , Jim Norton

Directed by:

Gary White , Michael Murray , Sam Peckinpah

Produced by:

James Swann , Miriam Brickman , Derek Kavanagh

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968) | IMDb: 6.9

Adventure , Comedy , Family , Fantasy , Music

A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

Starring:

Dick Van Dyke , Sally Ann Howes , Lionel Jeffries , Gert Fröbe , Anna Quayle , Benny Hill

Directed by:

Gus Agosti , Ken Hughes , Angela Martelli

Produced by:

Frank Ernst , Stanley Sopel , Albert R. Broccoli

Khartoum ( 1966) | IMDb: 6.8

Adventure , History , War

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Starring:

Charlton Heston , Laurence Olivier , Richard Johnson , Ralph Richardson , Alexander Knox , Johnny Sekka

Directed by:

Kay Rawlings , Yakima Canutt , John Peverall

Produced by:

Basil Appleby , Julian Blaustein , Weston Drury Jr.

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