Andre MorellFilmography

Will Shakespeare [TV Series]

Actors: Tim Curry, Ian McShane, Meg Wynn Owen, Simon McCorkindale, Nicholas Clay

Synopsis: Written by the prolific John Mortimer, the British drama series Will Shakespeare focused on the Bard of Avon's formative years. Deftly mixing fact with fancy, the story concentrates on such elements as the marriage of young Will (played by Tim Curry, no less) to the older and more affluent Anne Read More

The Message

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Michael Forest

Synopsis: This handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who, in accordance with the tenants of Islam, is never seen or heard (any physical depiction of the prophet is considered a heinous sin within the faith). In Mecca in the 7th Read More

The Slipper and the Rose

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie, Edith Evans, Christopher Gable

Synopsis: Filmed in Austria, this British-made musical retells the story of Cinderella as it is found in books of fairy tales. The Prince, Edward, is played by Richard Chamberlain, Cinderella by Gemma Craven. In her role as the Prince's witty mother, Dame Edith Evans provides many of the movie's highlights. Read More

The Man and the Snake

Synopsis: Which will be victorious; commonsense which seems sound during the day or the unsettling effects of the night? This story is adapted from an Ambrose Bierce tale. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Barry Lyndon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Gay Hamilton

Synopsis: With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel depicts the rise and fall of a sensitive rogue in the British aristocracy. Young Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) leaves home to seek his Read More

Pope Joan

Actors: John Arineri, Neville Aurelius, Lorain Bertorelli, Ion Grafini, Sheelah Wilcocks, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo IV and Benedict III -- in this rambling saga directed by Michael Anderson. The British version of the film has been cut, not only removing twenty-one minutes of the film Read More

10 Rillington Place

Actors: Ray Barron, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black

Synopsis: 10 Rillington Place is the true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling "normality" by Richard Attenborough. Throughout the late '40s, Christie lures middle-aged women to his London flat promising to cure their ailments with nitrous oxide, then kills them Read More

Julius Caesar

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Jr., John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells Shakespeare's account of events surrounding the assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C. The film begins when Caesar John Gielgud is at the height of his power after conquering Read More

The Vengeance of She

Actors: John Richardson, Olinka Berova, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely, Jill Melford

Synopsis: Killikrates (John Richardson) is the ruler of the city of Kuma, an idyllic civilization seemingly frozen in another time. In a religious ceremony, he waits for his Queen Ayesha (Olinka Berova) to return and be immortalized by a fiery ritual. The High Priest has other ideas and plants a look-alike Read More

The Mercenaries

Actors: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, James Brown, Kenneth More

Synopsis: Curry (Rod Taylor) is a veteran soldier-of-fortune hired by the president of the Congo for a three day mission. He and native Congoan Ruffo (Jim Brown) are to oversee the safe passage of a train through hostile enemy territory and bring back some uncut diamonds and a human cargo of fugitives loyal Read More

The Mummy's Shroud

Actors: Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars, Maggie Kimberley

Synopsis: A murderous mummy is on the loose and it's got the Hammer Films stamp on it, but this tame terror flick never gets the bandages off when it comes to thrills, chills, and gore. A British archeological team consisting of Sir Basil Walden (Andre Morrell), Paul Preston (David Buck), a photographer Read More

Quatermass and the Pit

Actors: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Maurice Good

Synopsis: Nigel Kneale's Quatermass TV series spawned a brief film series produced over an eleven-year period; 1967's Quatermass and the Pit, released in the US as Five Million Years to Earth, was the third and (until 1979's Quatermass Conclusion) last. As in previous chapters in the Kneale saga, the Read More

The Plague of the Zombies

Actors: Andre Morell, Diane Clare, John Carson, Brook Williams, Alexander Davion

Synopsis: A wonderfully atmospheric outing from Hammer Films, who diverged from their often successful variations on Universal's classic monsters into the world of zombies, a genre which had yet to receive its infusion of terrifying new blood with the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. The plot, which Read More

The Wrong Box

Actors: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed 1000 pounds in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surving member of the tontine. A Read More

Judith

Actors: Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins, Hans Verner, Zharira Charifai

Synopsis: A woman seeks justice for herself, her family, and her people in this emotional drama. Judith (Sophia Loren) is a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp; she was once married to Gustav Schiller (Hans Verner), a German, but with the onset of WWII, he threw his support behind the ruling Nazi party Read More

Avengers: Death at Bargain Prices

Actors: Diana Rigg, T.P. McKenna

Synopsis: Emma goes undercover as a department store clerk when a sales receipt is found on the body of a murdered agent. She is backed up by Steed, who poses as an efficiency expert. In their own inimitable fashion, the Avengers discover a plot to blow up London -- with the department store itself as the Read More

She

Actors: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Christopher Lee, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: Hammer Films co-produced this lavishly mounted adventure, the fourth adaptation of the novel by H. Rider Haggard. In Jerusalem, Leo Vincey (John Richardson) meets with a slave girl, Ustane (Rosenda Monteros), who has been charged with bringing him to an immortal queen, Ayesha (Ursula Andress). Read More

Woman of Straw

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Johnny Sekka, Laurence Hardy

Synopsis: In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry young man enraged that his rich, dying uncle doesn't plan to include him in his will. Instead, Charles Richmond (Ralph Richardson) plans to give his fortune to charity. Anthony Read More

The Moon-Spinners

Actors: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery, Joan Greenwood, Irene Papas

Synopsis: Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as Nikky Ferris who is spending time in Crete at a small inn called The Moon-Spinners with her Aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood). One day Nikky discovers a handsome young man, Mark Read More

Avengers: Death of a Batman

Synopsis: The "batman" referred to in the title was not of the Caped Crusader variety, but instead the former valet to John Steed. When the man in question, who after WWII worked as a humble printer's assistant, leaves behind an estate worth over half a million pounds, Steed investigates. It turns out that Read More

Cash on Demand

Synopsis: A ruthless crook abducts the wife and child of a bank manager and then masquerades as an insurance company detective while scheming to rob the institution in this crime drama. Unfortunately, some of the manager's employees learn about the plot and the terrified manager must beg them to remain Read More

One Step Beyond: The Avengers

Synopsis: Placed in command of France's Chateau de la Marre district in 1944, sadistic Nazi general Guenther Hautmann (Andrew Morell) prepares to ship all of the locals to work camps. First, however, he perversely throws the unfortunates a lavish party in a luxurious chateau, the site of a similar Read More

The Shadow of the Cat

Actors: Andre Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson, Conrad Phillips

Synopsis: A normally placid pussy turns into a ferocious feline hell-bent for revenge against the treacherous trio who murdered her mistress in this interesting horror film. One of the killers was the woman's husband; the other two were her servants. The woman was quite wealthy, and the avaricious trio Read More

Cone of Silence

Actors: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders

Synopsis: Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet. Although he passes a battery of tests, pilot error is the determined cause of the accident. Sir Hobbes (George Sanders) is the Queen's council whose relentless prosecution helps Read More

Ben-Hur

Actors: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith

Synopsis: This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish Read More

Behemoth, the Sea Monster

Actors: John Turner, Leigh Madison, Jack MacGowran, Henry Vidon

Synopsis: A perennial of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit of the 1950s, The British The Giant Behemoth owes a great deal to the earlier American sci-fier The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. A Cornish fisherman is found covered with what looks like radiation burns. Before he dies, the fisherman utters the word Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, Miles Malleson, David Oxley

Synopsis: In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's daughter over to his equally depraved companions, but she escapes. When he catches up with the girl in a ruined abbey, he kills her and then is attacked and killed himself by Read More

The Invisible Man: Man in Power

Synopsis: King Rashid (Vivan Matalon), a Middle Eastern potentate, is murdered by his treacherous military advisor General Shafari (Andre Morell), who plans to take over Rashid's kindgom. First, however, Shafari must force Princess Taima (Nadja Regin), the much-beloved heir to the throne, to abdicate. But Read More

Quatermass and the Pit

Actors: Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell, John Stratton, Christine Finn

Synopsis: The original 1958 BBC television production of the last of Nigel Kneale's classic Quatermass scripts -- which is best known in association with the 1967 Hammer Films adaptation by Roy Ward Baker -- runs circles around the feature-film version. As with the other Quatermass serials, Kneale's Read More

Diamond Safari

Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Gert Van Den Bergh

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an American gumshoe goes to Johannesburg, South Africa to prove the innocence of a native accused of stealing diamonds. While there, he meets an American beauty who turns out to be the leader of the smuggling ring that framed the native. The detective falls in love and then Read More

The Camp on Blood Island

Actors: Carl Möhner, Andre Morell, Edward Underdown, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Goodliffe, Barbara Shelley, Phil Brown

Synopsis: For some reason, this Hammer Studios war melodrama was singled out for constant ridicule by the Monty Python troupe. The story is set at a brutal Japanese POW camp, where sadism is a way of life (the first scene is of a hapless prisoner being forced to dig his own grave). The evil commandant Read More

Pickup Alley

Actors: Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano, Andre Morell

Synopsis: Victor Mature stars in this European-based crime thriller. Mature is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation, following his quarry all over the Continent (with accompanying pretty pictures of Portugal, Spain, France etc.) The criminal mastermind (Trevor Howard) is something of a Read More

Paris Holiday

Actors: Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer, Preston Sturges

Synopsis: Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris Holiday. Since Hope coauthored the script, however, guess which actor has the largest part. Cast more or less as himself, Hope plays an American comedian who comes to Paris to Read More

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Actors: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James Donald

Synopsis: The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge Read More

The Baby and the Battleship

Actors: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Harold Siddons, Clifford Mollison, Lisa Gastoni

Synopsis: British sailors John Mills and Richard Attenborough would like to take Neopolitan lass Lisa Gastoni out on a date. But Gastoni can't leave the house unless her baby brother tags along. During a rowdy evening on the town, Mills is forced to sneak the infant on board his ship. When Gastoni and Attenborough Read More

Zarak

Actors: Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anita Ekberg, Bonar Colleano, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: In this desert adventure, a bandit chieftain roams the northwest deserts of India. Wherever he goes, he leaves a trail of ruin and raped women. A British major is assigned to capture the bandit and his gang. He succeeds, but soon the bandit, with the assistance of a sadistic nomad, escapes. The Read More

The Black Tent

Actors: Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, Anna Maria Sandri, Andre Morell, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: Anthony Steel stars in this fanciful wartime drama. Stationed in Libya, British soldier Steel is wounded, then nursed back to health by a band of Nomads. He manages to marry the tribal chieftan's daughter (Anna Maria Sandri) before getting down to the serious business of fending off the Nazis. Ten Read More

The Man Who Never Was

Actors: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd

Synopsis: The Man Who Never Was is the true story of how the Allies threw the Nazis off track in planning the invasion of Sicily. The British Royal Navy exhumes the corpse of a man who died of natural causes, arranging to make it appear as though the dead man was a special services operative carrying the Read More

They Can't Hang Me

Synopsis: In this British espionage drama, a murderer hopes to escape his fateful appointment on death row by identifying the leaders of a spy ring. Unfortunately, a detective has already figured it out before he talks and the killer hangs for his crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Summertime

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to Venice, half hoping to find the romance that has always eluded her. Luck of luck, she meets handsome Renato Di Rossi (Rossano Brazzi), who sweeps her Read More

Three Cases of Murder

Actors: Alan Badel, Hugh Pryse, John Salew, Leucen MacGrath, Eddie Byrne

Synopsis: The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first segment, "The Picture," was directed by Wendy Toye, based on a short story by Roderick Wilkinson. A museum tour guide, Jarvis (Hugh Pryse), is plagued by artworks going missing Read More

The Secret

Actors: Sam Wanamaker, Mandy Miller, Andre Morell

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear. Just before he talks her into helping him, she is pushed off of a cliff. He becomes the prime Read More

The Black Knight

Actors: Alan Ladd, Peter Cushing, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result was the lively swashbuckler The Black Knight. Ladd plays John, a young swordmaker who aspires to join the Knights of the Round Table. Unfortunately, he is falsely accused of Read More

The Golden Link

Actors: Thea Gregory, Patrick Holt, Jack Watling, Arnold Bell

Synopsis: The Golden Link gets off to a spectacularly violent start when a woman's body plummets into the hallway of an apartment building. It looks like a suicide, but police superintendent Blake (Andre Morrell) suspects murder. Blake is officially "off" the case before long; unofficially, he calmly Read More

His Majesty O'Keefe

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Andre Morell, Abraham Sofaer, Archie Savage

Synopsis: Captain David O'Keefe is a character based on the real-life 18th-century American who introduced modern agricultural methods to the South Seas. Lest you think that His Majesty O'Keefe is merely a feature-length version of your local TV station's agribusiness report, be advised that O'Keefe is Read More

The Frightened Bride

Actors: Andre Morell, Flora Robson, Jane Hylton, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family is executed for murder. The family does its best to kick over all the traces, moving to a different community under an assumed name and never speaking of their son. All of Read More

A Stolen Face

Actors: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, Andre Morell, Mary Mackenzie, John Wood

Synopsis: Brilliant plastic surgeon Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) loses the love of his life, concert pianist Alice Brent (Lizabeth Scott), to her manager, David (Andre Morell). As a balm to his wounded pride, Dr. Ritter Henreid makes over a hideously scarred female criminal into the spitting image of the Read More

Flesh and Blood

Actors: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood, Andre Morell

Synopsis: Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Read More

High Treason

Actors: Liam Redmond, Andre Morell, Anthony Bushell, Kenneth Griffith, Patric Doonan

Synopsis: High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street. Enemy saboteurs infiltrate the industrial suburbs of London, intending to plant high-powered bombs at several factory sites. Their motivation is to cripple the British Read More

Madeleine

Actors: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Barbara Everest

Synopsis: David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th century. Told in flashback, the film explains why aristocratic young Scotswoman Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd, then the wife of director Lean) is on trial for murder. The Read More

Seven Days to Noon

Actors: Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, Andre Morell, Sheila Manahan, Hugh Cross

Synopsis: Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of his work, Jones constructs his own bomb and threatens to blow up London within one week. His terms: Stop the atomic research or suffer the consequences. As London is Read More

No Place for Jennifer

Actors: Leo Genn, Rosamund John, Beatrice Campbell, Guy Middleton, Janette Scott

Synopsis: Jennifer (Janette Scott) is the 12-year-old daughter of divorcing couple William (Leo Genn) and Paula (Beatrice Campbell). Though both parents profess their love for Jennifer, both mentally abuse the poor girl during the custody tug-of-war. Unable to withstand the pressure, Jennifer runs away from Read More

So Long at the Fair

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Honor Blackman, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now accepted as truth. The year is 1889: the setting, the Paris Exhibition. Among the thousands in attendance are Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson Read More

Trio

Actors: James Hayter, Anne Crawford, Nigel Patrick, Felix Aylmer, Lana Morris, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie, Michael Hordern, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Trio was the 1950 follow-up to the successful Somerset Maugham "omnibus" feature Quartet. Maugham himself introduces the three short playlets in this captivating collection. "The Verger" stars James Hayter as a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor Read More

The Clouded Yellow

Actors: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More, Maxwell Reed

Synopsis: The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war, Sommers takes a low-profile job cataloguing butterfly specimens. While thus employed, he make the acquaintance of Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons), a curious young lady who seems to Read More

Stage Fright

Actors: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Todd, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre world. On the lam from the police, Richard Todd takes refuge in the home of his former girlfriend, RADA student Jane Wyman. Todd has been spotted fleeing the scene of a murder Read More

Against the Wind

Actors: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, Paul Dupuis

Synopsis: Set in World War II times, this drama involves a highly trained bunch of British soldiers who must parachute into Nazi-held Belgium on a rescue and destroy mission. Documentary film footage is included in the early parts of the film as the trainees get prepared for the task ahead. Robert Beatty Read More

The Merchant of Venice

Actors: Abraham Sofaer, Margaretta Scott, Austin Trevor, Andre Morell

Unpublished Story

Actors: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He returns to his job in a London now facing nightly German bombing raids, and finds himself saddled with Carol Bennett (Valerie Hobson), a neophyte reporter. Bob is eager to Read More

Three Silent Men

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a peace-loving surgeon must operate upon the man who invented a catastrophic new weapon. The trouble begins when the patient dies of too much ether and the doctor finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, his daughter and her lover prove that he is innocent. ~ Sandra Read More

Ten Days in Paris

Actors: Rex Harrison, Kaaren Verne, C.V. France, Joan Marion, Leo Genn

Synopsis: Rex Harrison plays a young Englishman who suffers periodic bouts of amnesia. When the plane he is riding in crashes, Harrison blacks out again and awakens in Paris. He is told that for the past ten days he has been involved in espionage of some sort or other--and now his life isn't worth two Read More

13 Men and a Gun

Synopsis: When the Russians find and destroy the hidden artillery, the 13 man Austrian gun crew is suspected of harboring a traitor in this World War I drama. Nobody knows which soldier informed, however. The tension mounts as the Austrian high command orders all 13 soldier executed to eliminate the Read More

Many Tanks Mr. Atkins

Synopsis: In this British farce, a soldier invents a tank supercharger that he is most eager to try. When the Germans hear about the invention, they send out spies to steal it. The soldier and his partner are both klutzes and almost bumble the plans into the spies' waiting hands, but Fate intervenes and Read More