Tempean Films were a British film production company formed in 1948 by Robert Baker and Monty Berman. Tempean's output of B movies were distributed by Eros Films. The company later moved into television, adapting Leslie Charteris' series of The Saint novels, starring Roger Moore.
The company produced several of its features at Southall Studios in Middlesex including both The Trollenberg Terror television series in 1956 and the film version in 1958, which was Southall Studio's final production.
A Edimbourg en 1820, le docteur Robert Knox, spécialiste de l'anatomie humaine, encourage les activités de voleurs de cadavres, ce qui scandalise ses confrères. Pour gagner de l'argent facilement, deux malfrats fournissent au docteur des cadavres encore très frais portant des marques de coups. Leurs agissements et les multiples disparitions éveillent les soupçons des confrères du docteur Knox et de sa famille sur sa santé mentale...
Transylvanie, 1874. Dans la campagne désolée, des villageois s'apprêtent à mettre en terre le cadavre d'un homme accusé de vampirisme. L'un d'entre eux lui enfonce un pieu dans le cœur. Alors que tous se retirent, le fossoyeur l'enterre mais celui-ci est poignardé par Carl, le serviteur du mort. Avant d'être soupçonné d'être un vampire, ce dernier était un médecin qui avait trouvé le moyen de maintenir un corps privé de son cœur artificiellement en vie, durant une période infinie. Après avoir déterré le corps, Carl le ramène dans un endroit secret et demande à un docteur corrompu et alcoolique d'effectuer une greffe du cœur sur le prétendu mort. L'opération est un succès mais Carl tue le chirurgien pour ne laisser aucun témoin.
Petit village des Alpes Suisses, Trollenberg est une station de haute altitude au pied d'un sommet du même nom. Hors, depuis quelques temps, un étrange nuage radioactif s'est fixé sur l'un des versants du massif, intriguant la communauté scientifique installée dans un observatoire voisin. La curiosité va se transformer soudainement en peur quand un groupe d'alpinistes va se retrouver en position désespérée dans ce nuage, qui abrite apparemment d'effrayantes créatures...
After suffering a series of personal setbacks and in desperate need of cash, reporter Bart Crosbie tries to get his old job back. But when he returns to the newspaper offices, Crosbie discovers that his former boss has been murdered. He is then offered money by the killer, a diamond smuggler, to take the murder rap.
The British wife of an American journalist begins receiving letters blackmailing her over a love affair. Suspicion points to her when the blackmailer is found murdered.
An American journalist works to expose a criminal gang in London. But his investigation of their counterfeiting activities leads to his kidnapping by the gang.
L'agent immobilier Alan Curtis (Arthur Kennedy) est en couple avec Elizabeth (Joy Shelton ). Insatisfait par son couple, il entame une relation extra-conjugale avec Lila (Constance Smith), une danseuse dont le frère est impliqué dans une affaire de vol de bijoux. Curtis se retrouve mêlé à l'affaire.
When thieves rob and murder her jeweller father, Jean Talbot resolves to bring them to justice by posing as a criminal and infiltrating their gang. She builds up evidence against her father's murderer by pretending to be in love with him.
Le commandant d'un cargo americain, Gregor Stevens, se rend a Londres afin de retrouver son frere, Larry, disparu depuis plusieurs mois. Il apprend que Larry a ete arrete et condamne a mort pour le meurtre d'un homme. Persuade de son innocence, Gregor mene son enquete pour le sauver.
Junk dealer Roselli's dreams for his son Julius are disappointed when the young man is thrown out of Oxford after poor grades. The boy then gets involved with a gang of Camden Town jewel thieves for whom his father is secretly the fence, and when they attempt to rob a warehouse, Julius is injured in the getaway but continues his involvement. The gang next plan a raid on a jeweller’s in Hatton Garden and also plan to cut out Roselli. The old man tips off the police – unaware that his son is a member of the gang.
An engineer Christopher Pelly (Maxwell Reed), loses his eyesight in an accident. He goes to London to have an eye operation. There he wants to go to his friends house but the taxi driver dropped him at the wrong house in Kensington. In the house three men had murdered a person with a knife and the corpse was lying on the floor. Pelly doesn't know that he is in the wrong house, and seeing that he is blind, the three murderers don't kill him. Pelly reported the incident to the police but the police were unable to find the dead body. When Pelly regains his eyesight after the operation he decides to solve the murder mystery.
When an Army concert party is disbanded after the war, they plan to meet up in a years time for a reunion. When they do they discover that all the various members aren't coping too well with civilian life. Jean, a singer who is staying in the same house as two of the ex-concert party members, suggests that the various members get back together to perform.