Arthur HillFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: The Return of Preston Giles

Synopsis: For the first time in Murder She Wrote history, a murderer whom Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) had turned over to the police in a previous episode makes a comeback appearance. The man in question is Jessica's first publisher (and erstwhile sweetheart!) Preston Giles (Arthur Hill), who had been Read More

Columbo: Agenda for Murder

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Arthur Hill, Denis Arndt, Louis Zorich

Synopsis: This 2-hour TV movie was originally presented as an installment of The ABC Saturday Mystery Movie in February of 1990. Patrick McGoohan (who also directed) plays a vice presidential candidate whose best friend murders a blackmailing racketeer. With "damage control" foremost in his mind, McGoohan Read More

A Fine Mess

Actors: Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

Actors: Raymond Burr, William Katt

Synopsis: Following the excellent ratings response to the 1985 "reunion" special Perry Mason Returns, producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove quickly assembled a second two-hour Mason TV movie in 1986. Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun finds Mason (Raymond Burr), now a judge, briefly stepping Read More

Christmas Eve

Actors: Arthur Hill, Ron Leibman, Loretta Young

Synopsis: Christmas Eve was actually first telecast on December 22, 1986, but nobody cared about the "error" then, so why should we? Making her first television appearance in 23 years, Loretta Young (her ageless beauty undimmed by her silvery hair) plays a wealthy New York matriarch who learns that she is Read More

One Magic Christmas

Actors: Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill, Elisabeth Harnois

Synopsis: The "magic" in One Magic Christmas is often (and surprisingly) of the "black" variety. Like Jimmy Stewart before her, worn-out wife and mother Mary Steenburgen wishes that she'd never been born. And like Stewart, Steenburgen is visited by a guardian angel, in this case the western-garbed Harry Dean Stanton Read More

Murder in Space

Actors: Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: A crew of international astronauts find that a murderer is in their ranks. They must solve the crime before reaching earth, and fortunately receive help from the base commander (Wilford Brimley). The film was originally made for television. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Guardian

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: The Guardian is set in an upper-class New York apartment building, recently plagued by a series of break-ins and murders. The tenants eagerly enlist the services of former military officer John Mack (Louis Gossett Jr.) as the building's head of security. Slowly but surely, the tenants give up Read More

Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies

Synopsis: Henry Fonda's career is profiled in this video as his stage, screen and television years are captured. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Love Leads the Way

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This made-for-Disney drama is the fact-based account of Morris Frank (Timothy Bottoms), who, during the 1930s, trained America's first seeing-eye dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes

Synopsis: The two-hour debut episode of Murder, She Wrote finds former substitute teacher Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) reluctantly thrust into the limelight when her first mystery novel, "The Corpse Danced at Midnight," becomes a best-seller. Invited to a costume ball held by her publisher, Jessica Read More

Miss Lonelyhearts

Actors: Eric Roberts, Arthur Hill, Conchata Farrell, John Ryan, Sally Kemp

Synopsis: Although based on Nathanael West's novel that essentially trashes the journalist's trade as cold-hearted and Machiavellian, director Michael Dinner has opted to make his journalist a pathetic figure instead. The story centers on a reporter who is trapped into writing the "Miss Lonelyhearts" column Read More

Intimate Agony

Synopsis: This once-timely made-for-TV drama was originally titled Lovesick: The Herpes Story until wiser heads prevailed. Soap-opera favorites Anthony Geary and Judith Light starred as dedicated doctor Kyle Richardson and lovelorn tourist Marsha Sarno in this saga of a genital-herpes outbreak in a posh Read More

Prototype

Actors: David Morse, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Columbo creators Richard Levinson and William Link give crime-solving a rest in their script for the made-for-TV sci-fier Prototype. Christopher Plummer plays a curmudgeonly but basically kindly Nobel Prize-winning scientist, who builds an equally kindly (but much handsomer) humanoid named Michael Read More

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano

Synopsis: After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young Read More

The Amateur

Actors: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: CIA computer technician John Savage seeks revenge for the terrorist killing of his girlfriend. Threatening to make public his insider's information, Savage forces his reluctant bosses to train him in the art of assassination. He then heads into enemy territory (at least, it was enemy territory Read More

Tomorrow's Child

Synopsis: Less than a week after the premiere telecast of the "surrogate mother" drama The Gift of Life, the similarly-themed Tomorrow's Child made its TV debut. Stephanie Zimbalist and her geneticist husband William Atherton agree to participate in a secret lab experiment. Under the aegis of doctors Ed Flanders Read More

Making Love

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this drama exploring the disintegration of an ideal marriage after the husband discovers he is gay. Kate Jackson is Claire, a successful television producer, and Michael Ontkean is her husband Zack, an equally successful doctor. They enjoy eight years of married bliss until Read More

Dirty Tricks

Actors: Elliott Gould, Kate Jackson, Arthur Hill, Rich Little

Synopsis: After a Harvard professor (Elliott Gould) comes into possession of a letter by George Washington, he finds that criminals are after the valuable document as well. A young reporter (Kate Jackson) just might save him, in this Canadian production. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Churchill and the Generals

Synopsis: This film is based on Winston Churchill's memoirs of his leadership of England from Dunkirk to D-Day. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Angel Dusted

Actors: John Putch, Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: PCP, a deadly drug commonly known as Angel Dust, made its first destructive appearances on the street in the late 1970s. In Angel Dusted, Jean Stapleton plays a cloistered housewife/mother who knows little and cares less about drug problems. Her son is a hard-working college student who decides Read More

Revenge of the Stepford Wives

Synopsis: According to the NBC publicity packet, the made-for-TV Revenge of the Stepford Wives was "based on characters created by Ira Levin" -- specifically, those characters created by Levin for his fantasy-suspense novel The Stepford Wives, which was transformed into a theatrical film in 1975. On this Read More

The Return of Frank Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: As made obvious by its title, this TV movie was an attempt to revive the once-popular private eye series Cannon, which ran from 1971 to 1976. Emerging from self-imposed retirement, corpulent gumshoe Frank Cannon (William Conrad) investigates the death of an old friend who formely worked for the Read More

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

Actors: Dennis Weaver, Susan Sullivan

Synopsis: The tragic story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who in 1865 was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor at the American penal colony of Fort Jefferson, was previously filmed as Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) and Hellgate (1957). Made for television, The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd stars Dennis Weaver as the Read More

The Glacier Fox

Synopsis: The Glacier Fox is an exciting documentary filmed in the frozen regions of Northern Japan. Director Korey Kurahara, who apparently was weaned on Disney's True Life Adventures, strikes just the right balance between reality and artifice. His "cast" consists of a family of wild foxes, each Read More

A Little Romance

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard

Synopsis: The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) and her promiscuous mother (Sally Kellerman). Mom is currently enamored with pretentious-filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes' latest Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Little House Years

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Telecast on Sunday evening rather than the series' customary Monday-night slot, "The Little House Years" is a three-hour compilation of highlights from the series' five previous seasons. Gathered together for Thanksgiving, the Ingalls family recalls the most memorable events of their lives, with Read More

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Riel

Actors: Christopher Plummer, William Shatner, Arthur Hill

Synopsis: This biographical tale is about Louis Riel, a Canadian of Indian descendants who employs his metaphysical powers to help the Metis Indians in their struggle for independence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Champ

Actors: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder, Jack Warden, Arthur Hill, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Billy (Jon Voight) is on the road with his son T.J. (Ricky Schroder), fighting low-end boxing matches for drinking money before moving on to the next town for another match. When his ex-wife (and T.J.'s mother) Annie (Faye Dunaway) shows up, it's to tell him that she wants custody of the boy. She Read More

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

Actors: William Katt, Tom Berenger, Brian Dennehy, John Schuck, Peter Weller, Michael Gwynne, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: This "prequel" to the Newman/Redford vehicle Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was written by TV sitcom veteran Allan Burns and stars Tom Berenger as Butch and William Katt as Sundance. The film, per its title, traces the formative days of Butch and Sundance's careers as soft-hearted western Read More

A Bridge Too Far

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

Synopsis: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Read More

Tell Me My Name

Synopsis: Valerie Mahaffey plays a 19-year-old girl who nervously knocks at the door of middle-aged housewife Barbara Barrie. Barrie had given Valerie up for adoption at birth, and the girl wants to know why. By her mere presence, Mahffey threatens to tear apart Barrie's family, most of whom have no Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an embittered Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) holds her widowed grandfather, Lansford (Arthur Hill), responsible for injuries sustained by her beloved horse Bunny. Sadly concluding that moving in with his son Charles (Michael Landon) was a mistake, Lansford Read More

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Synopsis: In 1931, nine young black drifters were arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama on the charge of gang-raping a white woman. Despite the flimsiness of the case and the questionable morals of the plaintiff, eight of the nine were sentenced to death by an all-white jury. The U.S. Supreme Court, sensing that Read More

Futureworld

Actors: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner, Jim Antonio

Synopsis: This follow-up to the successful 1973 thriller Westworld stars Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner as Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard, investigative reporters. The team has been dispatched to the expensive theme park Westworld on the remote island of Delos, to find out what caused the park's robots to Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Arthur Hill guest stars as Lansford Ingalls, the father of farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon). Sensing that his dad has lost the will to live since the death of his wife, Charles invites Lansford to move in with his family at Walnut Grove. At first Read More

The Rivalry

Death Be Not Proud

Synopsis: A teenage boy battles courageously against brain cancer in this moving made-for-television drama that is based on John Gunther's 1949 autobiographical account of his son's terrible illness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Killer Elite

Actors: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako

Synopsis: This second-string Sam Peckinpah action film features James Caan as ex-CIA agent Mike Locken, who has retired due to injuries received at the hands of his ex-partner George Hansen (Robert Duvall). But Mike is lured out of retirement to protect Yuen Chung (Mako), an Asian political leader. There's Read More

Ordeal

Actors: Arthur Hill, Diana Muldaur, James Stacy

Synopsis: In this dark drama, filmed in the Mojave Desert, a conniving wife and her lover leave her husband, who broke his leg, alone in the desert to die. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law: Season 03

Actors: Arthur Hill, Lee Majors

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law: Season 02

Actors: Arthur Hill, Lee Majors

The Andromeda Strain

Actors: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly

Synopsis: The "Andromeda Strain" is a deadly extraterrestrial virus. It is brought to Earth when a research satellite crashes near a tiny Arizona town. Everyone in the community dies within days, except for a baby and an "insulated" drunkard. Recruited from labs all over North America, doctors Charles Read More

A Pattern of Morality

Synopsis: Pattern of Morality is the syndicated title of the made-for-TV Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. Arthur Hill stars as Owen Marshall, a crusading attorney, who defends hippie Bruce Davidson, accused of murdering a wealthy housewife. Though all characters and names are fictitious, the film was Read More

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, an attorney investigates the murder of a woman and comes up with some very interesting findings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law: Season 01

Actors: Arthur Hill, Lee Majors

The Pursuit of Happiness

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Michael Sarrazin, Ruth White

Synopsis: William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter. His participation in some prison violence Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

Echo of a Nightmare

Synopsis: Echo of a Nightmare is a 90-minute TV thriller involving a kidnapping. The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (Robert Stack) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's Read More

The Other Man

Actors: Arthur Hill

Synopsis: Joan Hackett plays the neglected wife of prominent attorney Arthur Hill. Almost before she know what is happening, Joan is drawn into an affair with handsome stranger Roy Thinnes. Her indiscretion leads to an attempted murder. All that transpires is part of a complicated plan by an ex-convict to Read More

Rabbit, Run

Actors: James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Jack Albertson, Carrie Snodgress, Melodie Johnson

Synopsis: A young married couple struggle with their personal problems and their union and the forthcoming birth oftheir unwanted child in this grim domestic drama. Much of the story centers on the husband, a former high school basketball star who is unable to leave the glory days behind and fashion a Read More

Aquarius Descending

Synopsis: Aquarius Descending is a 90-minute episode of the TV weekly Name of the Game. Gene Barry plays Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard, who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician (Arthur Hill). Seeking revenge, the politico orders a young hard-case (Michael Callan) to romance Read More

Don't Let the Angels Fall

Actors: Arthur Hill, Sharon Acker, Charmion King-Pinsent, Michele Magny

Synopsis: Robert (Arthur Hill) is a successful family man who attends an insurance convention in the U.S. Leaving behind his wife Barbara (Sharon Acker) and two sons ages 19 and 13, he has an affair with an American girl. His wife suspects something is wrong when he returns. The youngest son skips school Read More

The F.B.I.: The Attorney

Synopsis: In a situation drenched with irony, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) must prevent the murder of attorney Richard Bender, who at present is defending Arnold Toby (Linden Chiles), a mob boss whom the FBI has been trying to nail for five years. Bender's would-be assassin is Dennis Holland, who Read More

The Chairman

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama

Synopsis: J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) directed this Cold War action thriller. Gregory Peck is the American Dr. John Hathaway, a Noble Prize-winning scientist, teaching at a university in London. Lieutenant General Shelby (Arthur Hill), from the American Embassy, asks Hathaway to go on a mission Read More

Petulia

Actors: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of "discovering himself." Julie Christie is Read More

The F.B.I.: By Force and Violence, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) steps up his search for kidnap victim Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin). Meanwhile, Bob's ex-convict father Max (Arthur Hill) reluctantly launches the final stage of an elaborate robbery that will net the kidnapper a cool Read More

The F.B.I.: By Force and Violence, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) investigates the kidnapping of Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin), the long-estranged son of ex-convict Max Griswold (Arthur Hill). What Erskine doesn't know is that the boy has been abducted by one of Max's former prison Read More

The Fugitive: Death of a Very Small Killer

Synopsis: Adopting the alias "Tom Barrett", for the second time this season, Kimble journeys to the small Mexican town of Puerta Banales. Here he is blackmailed into acting as assistant for Dr Frederick Howell (Arthur Hill), who with his loyal secretary Reina (Carol Lawrence) is battling an outbreak of Read More

The F.B.I.: Flight to Harbin

Synopsis: During a flight from New York to Seattle, a passenger identifying himself as Ernest Putnam (Arthur Hill) hijacks the plane and demands to be flown to Manchuria. Inspector Erskine learns that "Putnam" is actually a scientist named Charles King, and that he is in possession of vital government Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Carriers

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Carriers" features George Takei as IMF agent Roger Lee and Arthur Hill as enemy agent Janos Passik. An expert on infiltration, Passik has set up a training school for spies in an Iron Curtain replica of a "typical" American town. It is all Read More

Harper

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because he was working unhappily on Lady L. (1965) in Europe, and was looking for something as unlike that film as possible. He stars as Lew Harper, a hip Read More

Moment to Moment

Actors: Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Sean Garrison, Arthur Hill, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this suspense drama. Kay Stanton (Jean Seberg) is the wife of well-known psychiatrist Neil Stanton (Arthur Hill). Neil's international reputation often keeps him on the road Read More

The F.B.I.: The Plague Merchant

Synopsis: In desperate need of money for his daughter's operation, research chemist Edward Lennan (Arthur Hill) agrees to sell some stolen vials to foreign spy Jago (Michael Strong). Lennan is convinced that the vials contain only a newly developed cosmetic base. In truth, they are contaminated with a Read More

The Fatal Mistake

Synopsis: Set in England, The Fatal Mistake stars Arthur Hill as a respectable accountant and family man. Every month on the dot, Hill is visited by his "friend" Roddy McDowell, who graciously bestows gifts upon Hill's wife and children, then retires with his host into the den. Here McDowell collects his Read More

The Ugly American

Actors: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Arthur Hill, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Taken from a best-selling book, this is an uneven, politically tinged drama by George Englund that does not really follow the book that closely. Marlon Brando is Harrison Carter MacWhite, an ambassador to a Southeast Asian country that goes unnamed but stands in well for Vietnam. There is a Read More

In the Cool of the Day

Actors: Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Constance Cummings, Arthur Hill

Synopsis: In this drama of romantic intrigue and infidelity, Sam and Christine Bonner (Arthur Hill and Jane Fonda) are a married couple whose relationship has hit a rough spot. While Sam loves Christina very much and would do anything for her, she feels unsatisfied and suffocated by him; she wants more Read More

The Untouchables: Canada Run

Synopsis: Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) hopes to expand his bootlegging empire across the US-Canadian border, setting up headquarters in the small Canadian fishing town of St. Brenden's. Meanwhile, Nitti's rival Joe Palakopoulos (Simon Oakland) has already gained a foothold in St. Brenden's, setting himself up Read More

The Young Doctors

Actors: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology department at a big hospital. The aging head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March), is insulted and treats the new hire as a rival. They battle over many medical Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Man Who Found the Money

Synopsis: The scene is Las Vegas, where William Benson (Arthur Hill) has dropped a bundle at the gaming tables. But Benson's luck seems to change when he finds a fancy money clip containing 92,000 dollars. Ultimately determining that honesty is the best policy, Benson turns the clip over to the authorities Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Human Interest Story

Synopsis: Steve McQueen was already well into the first season of his own TV Western, Wanted: Dead or Alive, when he appeared in this memorable episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. McQueen is cast as newspaper reporter Bill Everett, who at the behest of his editor (Tyler McVey) heads to a corner bar to Read More

Hallmark Hall of Fame: Born Yesterday

Synopsis: Paul Douglas repeats his Broadway stage role as corrupt, bombastic scrap-metal tycoon Harry Brock in this Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. Taking over from Judy Holliday in the role of Harry's dimwitted mistress Billie Dawn is Mary Martin, while Arthur Hill is Read More

The Deep Blue Sea

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Moira Lister

Synopsis: Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea stars Vivien Leigh as the troubled wife of a London attorney (Emlyn Williams). Racked with emotional problems, Leigh turns her back on her loveless marriage and sets up house with a handsome RAF officer (Kenneth More). When her lover Read More

Raising a Riot

Actors: Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller

Synopsis: British actor Kenneth More's screen charisma helps smooth over the rough spots of Raising a Riot. More plays Tony, a young husband and father. When Tony's wife Mary (Shelagh Fraser) takes a trip to Canada, the hapless hubby is left in charge of their three precocious (to put it mildly) children. Read More

Family Affair

Life with the Lyons

The Crowded Day

Synopsis: In the tradition of Derby Day and The Extra Day came another multiplotted British comedy/drama, The Crowded Day. A huge and mobile cast play the various persons connected with a department store sale during the Christmas season. Special attention is given five members of the store's sales staff Read More

A Day to Remember

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Joan Rice, Odile Versois, James Hayter

Synopsis: Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver (Donald Sinden Read More

Paul Temple Returns

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, an aspiring novelist and amateur detective begins looking into the case of a famous unsolved murder and eventually ends up in a mansion filled with serpents. He then enlists the aid of his wife, solves the murder, and gets kudos for his newest book. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Salute the Toff

Synopsis: In this mystery, a woman desiring to locate her missing employer engages the services of "The Toff," a suave amateur detective. Mayhem ensues until the detective reveals that the boss wanted to disappear so he could hide from the man behind an insurance fraud who wants to kill him. ~ Sandra Read More

Scarlet Thread

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a petty crook teams up with a gangster to steal some jewels, but somehow the robbery goes awry and an innocent man is fatally shot. The man later turns out to be the father of the crook's newest girl friend. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Body Said No!

Synopsis: In the Anglo-American The Body Said No!, actor Michael Rennie plays his most challenging role: "himself." The scene is a British TV studio, where Rennie is performing in a live dramatic broadcast. On another set, singer Yolande Donlan mistakes a director's hand signals as "secret code" in a murder Read More

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

Actors: Yolande Donlan, Michael Rennie, Garry Marsh, Emrys Jones, Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis: Miss Laramie Pilgrim (Yolande Donlan) is an American factory girl. Anxious to see what life is like outside her own backyard, Miss Pilgrim trades places with a British lass. After reels and reels of culture-clash comedy, the heroine comes to the rescue of her new friends and neighbors, who are Read More

I Was a Male War Bride

Actors: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Randy Stuart, William Neff

Synopsis: Howard Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World War II. Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer who is assigned to put a stop to a black market operation in occupied Germany with the help of Lt. Catherine Read More