Bernard LeeFilmography

Moonraker

Actors: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michel Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: In this adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1955 novel, James Bond (Roger Moore) must thwart Sir Hugo Drax (Michel Lonsdale), who plans to wipe out all of humankind and replace it with a super race that he has cultivated in a massive space station. The girl in the case is American secret agent Holly Read More

The Spy Who Loved Me

Actors: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro

Synopsis: Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't make an appearance until the book is two-thirds over. This would hardly work in the film world's Bond Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn, Clive Merrison

Synopsis: In this adaptation of Dickens' classic, Scrooge and company are animated. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Beauty and the Beast

Actors: George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn

Synopsis: This Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast stars George C. Scott and his wife Trish Van Devere in the title roles -- and it should not take a rocket scientist to determine who plays what role. It all begins when Edward Beaumont (Bernard Lee) makes the Read More

The Man with the Golden Gun

Actors: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: The Man With the Golden Gun, Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond (Live and Let Die was the first), whisks our hero off to Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, and then the South China Sea in search of a solar energy weapon. His opponent is Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), who rules the roost on a Read More

It's Not the Size That Counts

Actors: Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with Leigh Lawson taking over for Hywel Bennett in the leading role. The plot concerns a chemical that contaminates the world's water supply; as a result, every man is rendered Read More

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Actors: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith

Synopsis: The sixth entry in Hammer Films' Frankenstein series, this film finds Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in charge of a lunatic asylum. When young doctor Simon Helder (Shane Bryant) is institutionalized for attempting to create synthetic life, Frankenstein is delighted: now he'll have an assistant Read More

Live and Let Die

Actors: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris

Synopsis: Roger Moore makes his first appearance as "Bond...James Bond" in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States to stem the activities of Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), who plans to take over the Western Hemisphere by converting everyone into heroin addicts. The woman in the case is Solitaire Read More

The Man Who Died Twice

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Bernard Lee, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Filmed in Spain, this TV movie stars Stuart Whitman as a painter who drops out of sight for seven years. Upon resurfacing, he discovers that his name has been affixed to high-priced forgeries. What's more, a crooked art dealer is capitalizing on Whitman's supposed death. While mulling through all Read More

Raging Moon

Actors: Lee Carter, Emma Forbes, Nelly Hanham, Theresa Watson, Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim

Synopsis: Malcom McDowell, who went on to play a chillingly heartless young man in A Clockwork Orange, here plays Bruce, a cheerful young athlete and aspiring writer whose injuries get the better of him on the evening of his colorless brother's wedding. He loses the use of his legs and is sent to a home for 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

Diamonds Are Forever

Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean

Synopsis: After George Lazenby portrayed James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Sean Connery returned to the tux, gimmicks, and catchphrases of Secret Agent 007 in his penultimate Bond outing, Diamonds Are Forever. Fragments of Ian Fleming's original 1954 novel remain, including the characters of Read More

Dulcima

Actors: Philip Marsden

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a runaway flees a bad home life and ends up working on an aging widower's farm. Time passes, and the man gradually begins falling in love with his young employee. He is just about to pop the question when she suddenly breaks his heart by running away with a handsome young Read More

Crossplot

Actors: Roger Moore, Martha Hyer, Claudie Lange, Alexis Kanner, Francis Matthews

Synopsis: Though Roger Moore was born in England and established himself as star of the British TV series The Saint, Crossplot represents Moore's very first British theatrical film. He stars as an advertising executive swept up in a plot to murder a visiting African statesman. Lensed in "swinging" London Read More

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the finest of the James Bond movies and also arguably the last truly great movie in the series. James Bond, portrayed here by George Lazenby (in his Read More

Clue of the Twisted Candle

Actors: David Knight, Francis de Wolff, Colette Wilde, Christine Shaw, Stanley Morgan

Synopsis: Ramon (Francis DeWolff) is the Armenian merchant who lives in his mansion outside of London. He has augmented his income over the years by blackmailing his clients. Fearful of retribution, he installs a room in his mansion that is supposedly impenetrable, complete with a hotline to Scotland Yard Read More

O.K. Connery

Actors: Neil Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi, Agata Flori, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Neil Connery stars in this forgettable spy actioner about a plastic surgeon who is blackmailed by the Allies. He is pressed into service to prevent a gang of international terrorists from taking over the world. Campy, plodding, and unintentionally funny in places, the feature remains a curiosity Read More

You Only Live Twice

Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor

Synopsis: James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure. When an American spacecraft disappears during a mission, it's widely believed to have been intercepted by the Soviet Union, and after a Russian space capsule similarly goes Read More

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

Synopsis: A farmer turns to highway robbery because of the greed of the people around him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum

Synopsis: Not to be confused with David Hewitt's abominable Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (AKA The Blood Suckers), this clever horror omnibus is one of the better early anthologies from Amicus Productions, thanks to Freddie Francis' stylish direction and a tongue-in-cheek approach from writer Milton Subotsky Read More

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether British secret agent. He comes in from "the cold" (meaning he is pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behind the Iron Curtain. To make his staged Read More

Thunderball

Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rick van Nutter

Synopsis: Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). This time, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. hijacks a NATO nuclear bomber, hiding the bombs under the ocean depths and Read More

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Actors: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Leo McKern, Lilli Palmer, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This rambunctious filmization of Daniel Defoe's "naughty" novel stars Novak as a poverty-stricken 18th century damsel who rises to the top of society surrendering her virtue--time Read More

The Man in a Looking Glass

Synopsis: A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Two Left Feet

Actors: Michael Crawford, Nyree Dawn Porter, Julia Foster, Michael Craze, David Hemmings

Synopsis: A British sex farce, this movie stars Nyree Dawn Porter as a flirtatious young waitress, Eileen. Her seductive ways so arouse a young customer, Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford), that he tries to seduce her. But he is so inept that she becomes bored and ditches him. Eileen goes off to a nightclub to Read More

Goldfinger

Actors: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata, Shirley Eaton, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), from robbing Fort Knox. Read More

Ring of Treason

Actors: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff, Nancy Nevinson, Thorley Walters

Synopsis: Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy underwater weapons establishment in Portland. Humiliated, he falls for the entreaties of enemy spy William Sylvester, who recruits him to steal secret papers. Lee convinces a female Read More

A Place to Go

Actors: Bernard Lee, Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Doris Hare, Barbara Ferris

Synopsis: British pop performer Michael Sarne stars as young Ricky, a kid from London's East End who is yet another victim of urban socio-economic blight. Discouraged and frustrated, Ricky gets involved with a local gang hoping to support his family by turning to a life of crime. Rita Tushingham, in her Read More

Saturday Night Out

Actors: Heather Sears, Bernard Lee, Erika Remberg, Colin Campbell, John Bonney, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: This British comedy details what happens to five sailors and a passenger as they spend fifteen hours on shore leave in London while waiting for their cargo ship to unload. The passenger, a lonely widowed business man named George (Bernard Lee), finds his way to a West End bar, where he meets Wanda Read More

Who Was Maddox?

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a rivalry within a publishing house turns deadly when theft and blackmail get involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fury at Smugglers Bay

Synopsis: Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing), magistrate of an 18th century coastal village where a little smuggling has always gone on (and been tolerated), learns that a group of wreckers have moved into the district, destroying ships and slaughtering their survivors in order to steal the cargo. The local Read More

From Russia With Love

Actors: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw

Synopsis: From Russia With Love, the second in the series of James Bond films, is the film that solidifies all the Bond film elements into a formula -- the action sequences are intensified and lend greater tension to the proceedings; John Barry's inimitable score makes its first appearance; Q is seen for Read More

The L-Shaped Room

Actors: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Anthony Booth, Brock Peters, Patricia Phoenix, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage

Synopsis: Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl. Arranging for an abortion (illegal at that time), she takes up residence in a ramshackle British boarding house where most of the other residents are also outcasts of society. Many Read More

Dr. No

Actors: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007 in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek style that set the tone for the rest of the popular series. Sean Connery sets the standard by which all future takers must measure Read More

The Brain

Synopsis: This third film version of the Curt Siodmak scare piece Donovan's Brain stars Peter Van Eyck as an overly dedicated scientist. When a powerful and ruthless financier dies in a plane crash, Van Eyck keeps the tycoon's brain alive in his laboratory. Gradually, the brain takes over the doctor's mind Read More

The Share Out

Synopsis: Bernard Lee, better known as "M" in the James Bond movies, makes one of his periodic appearances as novelist Edgar Wallace's diligent Scotland Yard investigator protagonist in The Share Out. This time Lee takes on a clever blackmailing ring which preys upon above-suspicion government officials. As Read More

Whistle Down the Wind

Actors: Hayley Mills, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird, Diane Clare, Patricia Heneghan, Elsie Wagstaffe

Synopsis: Bryan Forbes' first directorial effort is set in a rugged Lancashire farm community. Three impressionable children, played by Hayley Mills, Diane Holgate, and Alan Barnes, come across a bearded vagrant named Arthur Blakey (Alan Bates) sleeping in their barn. Upon awakening, the ill-tempered bum Read More

The Secret Partner

Actors: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Hugh Burden, Lee Montague

Synopsis: In this routine mystery story by director Basil Dearden, someone who favors mysteries and comedies, Stewart Granger is John Brent, a VIP in a shipping company with a prison record behind him. When a quarter of million dollars goes missing from the company's vault, he is the primary suspect of Read More

The Clue of the Silver Key

Actors: Bernard Lee

Synopsis: This Edgar Wallace-based second feature headlines Bernard Lee, the beloved 5 of the James Bond pictures. Here Lee is a Scotland Yard inspector, baffled by a seemingly unrelated string of murders. The link between these homicides is the silver key of the title, which yields surprising results. It Read More

Partners in Crime

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a story by Edgar Wallace, a prominent business man is robbed and killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

The Angry Silence

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee, Travers (Alfred Burke), begins complaining about conditions at the plant and stirs up disharmony among his fellow workers. Tom thinks that there's something fishy about Travers Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie

Synopsis: Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. James MacArthur stars as David Balfour, a wealthy lad cheated out of his inheritance and sold into servitude by his duplicitous and greedy uncle, Ebenezer (John Laurie). Aboard the ship Read More

Breakout

Actors: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the various prisoners. Richard Todd is Lt. Col. David Baird, intensely and single-mindedly set on escaping. Bernard Lee is Lt. Col. Huxley who is the careful senior British Read More

Web of Evidence

Actors: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee, Jean Kent

Synopsis: Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose British father has supposedly been dead for years. On a visit to London, Johnson discovers that his father is very much alive, serving a life sentence for murder. Johnson Read More

Nowhere to Go

Actors: George Nader, Bernard Lee, Bessie Love, Maggie Smith, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: Influential British critic Kenneth Tynan neglected to review Nowhere to Go--perhaps because he directed it himself. Maggie Smith makes her film debut as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of George Nader. Nader is a fugitive from justice who can expect no help from Read More

The Man Upstairs

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston, Dorothy Alison, Charles Houston

Synopsis: The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile that stars Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidentally kills the brother of his fiancee. In order to escape the pain, Attenborough changes his name and Read More

Dunkirk

Actors: John Mills, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough, Robert Urquhart, Meredith Edwards, Anthony Nicholls, Ray Jackson

Synopsis: One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across the English channel. One party of British soldiers becomes detached Read More

The Key

Actors: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: The Key was adapted by Carl Foreman from Stella, a novel by Jan De Hartog. The time is WW2: The place, Plymouth England. Canadian tug captain David Ross (William Holden) and his British counterpart Chris Ford (Trevor Howard) pay a visit to Ford's lady friend Stella (Sophia Loren). Before the men Read More

The Spanish Gardener

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Maureen Swanson

Synopsis: A story of family interaction, this is an adaptation of an A.J. Cronin novel, with Dirk Bogarde in the title role. More a character study, the movie depicts an insecure man who sees his son's close relationship with their Spanish gardener and is jealous of it. Torn by the jealousy, he contrives to Read More

Across the Bridge

Actors: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the basic source for the British psychological melodrama Across the Bridge. Rod Steiger plays Carl Schaffner, a prominent financier who has absconded with company funds. A genius at improvisation, he plans to elude the authorities by murdering Paul Scarff (Bill Nagy) and Read More

High Flight

Actors: Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh, Anthony Newley, Kenneth Fortescue

Synopsis: In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery, irresponsible cadet. The lad reminds the officer of himself when he was young. It also reminds him that his own youthful arrogance and foolishness caused the death of the new Read More

Fire Down Below

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom, Bernard Lee, Bonar Colleano

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum star as Tony and Felix, co-owners of a tramp-steamer service in the West Indies. Threatening their friendship is itinerant trollop Irena (Rita Hayworth). Tony seethes with jealousy as Irena gravitates towards Felix, leading to a heated confrontation. Felix retaliates Read More

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Actors: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the story of Britain's first significant naval victory in WW2. John Gregson heads the cast as Captain Bell, skipper of the Exeter, one of several vessels engaged in pursuit of the Read More

Out of the Clouds

Actors: Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, David Knight, Eunice Gayson

Synopsis: Basil Dearden was co-producer and co-director of the British "slice of life" drama Out of the Clouds. Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the story takes place during one unusually busy day at London's Heathrow Airport. The dramatis personae includes Gus Randall (Anthony Steel), a pilot with a Read More

The Ship That Died of Shame

Actors: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough stars as a former crew member of a British gunboat, which was distinguished by a heroic wartime record. Attenborough and several fellow ex-crewmen buy the vessel in peacetime. They clean, paint and renovate the ship, then proceed to launch a smuggling operation. The film Read More

The Purple Plain

Actors: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham, Ram Gopal, Lyndon Brook

Synopsis: An H.E. Bates novel was the source for this psychological wartime drama set in Burma. Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two comrades-in-arms crash in the Burmese wilds. The three men are forced to hack and crawl their way to safety, surrounded on all sides by the Japanese. Peck's subordinates don't Read More

The Rainbow Jacket

Actors: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred from racing. Although he himself can no longer race, the jockey decides to live his dreams through Georgie Crain, who becomes his youthful protege. Sam teaches George all he Read More

Crest of the Wave

Actors: Gene Kelly, Jeff Richards, John Justin, Bernard Lee, Sidney James

Synopsis: Crest of the Wave is the original British title of Seagulls over Sorrento, filmed at MGM's Elstree facilities in 1953 and released stateside one year later. Based on a popular play by Hugh Hastings, the story concentrates on a group of British and American naval personnel, stationed on a Scottish Read More

The Detective

Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character created by novelist G.K. Chesterton. When Father Brown is entrusted with transporting a valuable religious artifact from London to Rome, he's understandably upset when it's Read More

Beat the Devil

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming Read More

Sailor of the King

Actors: Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Jeffrey Hunter, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Jeffrey Hunter plays a young British sailor, the out-of-wedlock son of a high-ranking naval officer (Michael Rennie). Hunter's ship is torpedoed, leaving him stranded on a German-occupied island. Armed with only a rifle, Hunter is able to shoot at a German cruiser docked for repairs, and to slow Read More

The Yellow Balloon

Actors: Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More, Bernard Lee, William Sylvester

Synopsis: Twelve-year old Frankie (Andrew Ray) feels guilty after his best friend falls to his death when they are playing in a bombed-out London building. Len (Sylvester) is a petty thief who has just become a murderer by killing the pub owner in a botched robbery. Frankie and Len's paths cross, and Len Read More

The Gift Horse

Actors: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice

Synopsis: Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in spite of their inferior vessel. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Fortune in Diamonds

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price, Gregoire Aslan, Charles Paton

Synopsis: The Adventurers is set in South Africa at the end of the Boer war. Commando Pieter Brandt (Jack Hawkins) comes across the dead body of a diamond courier. Brandt buries both the courier and his valuable cache of diamonds then heads back to his regiment. After the cessation of hostilities, Brandt Read More

Appointment with Venus

Actors: David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris, Barry Jones, Kenneth More

Synopsis: Don't be misled by the title, and by the presence of Glynis Johns in the cast. The "Venus" in Appointment with Venus is a prized cow. The time is World War II: special operatives David Niven and Glynis Johns are dispatched to a Nazi-held island to rescue Venus, who for some reason or other is Read More

White Corridors

Actors: Googie Withers, Gerard Heinz, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Barry Jones

Synopsis: White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Read More

Calling Bulldog Drummond

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, Peggy Evans

Synopsis: All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property (and simultaneously liquidate some "frozen funds") with the British-filmed Calling Bulldog Drummond. Walter Pidgeon stars as novelist Sapper's soldier-of-fortune, here Read More

Mr. Denning Drives North

Actors: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wanamaker, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a sudden fit of rage, Denning murders the scoundrel. Panicking, he drives northward with the corpse in the back seat, dumps the body in a lonely rural area, and carefully Read More

Operation Disaster - Morning Departure

Synopsis: A foundering British submarine provides the basis for this gripping drama. The trouble begins when the sub strikes a mine. The sub cannot surface, and only twelve on board survived the blast. Now rescuers must save them, but more trouble ensues when the trapped men below are informed that due to Read More

Last Holiday

Actors: Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Coco Aslan, Jean Colin

Synopsis: Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He withdraws all his savings from the bank and heads to a posh hotel. Here he makes more contacts and opens more professional doors than he'd ever done before, thanks to his Read More

Odette

Actors: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: This espionage drama was based on the true story of Odette Sansom Churchill, who became an unlikely hero during WWII. Born in France, Odette (Anna Neagle) was married to an Englishman who died in battle. When the British Army made an appeal for photos of the French coastline, Odette mailed a set Read More

Cage of Gold

Actors: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Madeleine Le Beau, Maria Mauban

Synopsis: Cage of Gold was a rare non-comic effort from Britain's Ealing Studios. Jean Simmons stars as Judith, who awakens the morning after her wedding to discover that her new husband has deserted her. Later on, she is told that her husband is dead. After a period of mourning, Judith remarries--only to Read More

Morning Departure

Actors: John Mills, Helen Cherry, Richard Attenborough, Lana Morris, Nigel Patrick

Synopsis: Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar mission, the sub strikes a forgotten mine and sinks to the bottom. The twelve-man crew comes face to face with the probability of permanent entombment and eventual suffocation; the Read More

The Third Man

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that Read More

The Blue Lamp

Actors: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Patric Doonan, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: The Blue Lamp was an immensely popular British crime film (and the winner of the BFA Award), concentrating on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by scuzzy small-time criminals Dirk Bogarde Read More

Elizabeth of Ladymead

Actors: Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Michael Laurence, Bernard Lee, Nicholas Phipps

Synopsis: Fans of British film star Anna Neagle had a field day with her bravura Technicolor vehicle Elizabeth of Ladymead--though not enough fans showed up back in 1948 to make the film a success. Neagle portrays four different characters from four different historical periods, each named Elizabeth. The Read More

Quartet

Actors: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Fleming, George Cole, Jack Raine, Cecil Parker, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful Read More

The Fallen Idol

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Bobby Henrey, Sonia Dresdel, Jack Hawkins, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from a child's eye view-but it isn't a children's story. Young Bobby Henrey idolizes household butler Ralph Richardson. Therefore, when it seems as though Richardson might be Read More

The Courtney Affair

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gladys Young, Coral Browne

Synopsis: Originally released in England as The Courtneys of Curzon Street, The Courtney Affair entertainingly covers the first 45 years of the 20th century. Anna Neagle plays an Irish maid who upsets the class-distinction equilibrium by marrying aristocrat Michael Wilding. Shunned by "proper" society, Neagle Read More

This Man Is Mine

Actors: Tom Walls, Jeanne de Casalis, Nova Pilbeam, Rosalyn Boulter, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: This holiday comedy is set during the Christmas of 1946 and centers upon a fellow who has returned to his native Canada to spend the Yule. When he receives a telegram from "the Fergusons," many memories of the Christmas they spent together come flooding back. The story jumps backward four years Read More

Once a Crook

Actors: Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Kathleen Harrison, Carla Lehmann, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins. Convinced that Charlie was responsible for his arrest, his former partner The Duke (Bernard Lee) vows to get even our hero. The Duke accomplishes this by luring Charlie's son Bill Read More

Spare a Copper

Synopsis: In this British WW II comedy, a brave member of the Police War Reserve eventually becomes a hero when he exposes a conspiracy to sabotage the battleship Hercules on her first voyage. But at first his fellow officers believe that he is one of the enemy agents and pursue him down the docks, causing Read More

Murder in the Night

Actors: Jack LaRue, Sandra Storme, Bernard Lee, Martin Walker, James Hayter

Synopsis: Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire story of an underworld mobster with a social bee in his bonnet and a rod on his hip"(Whew!) The mobster in question is Steve Marco, played with appropriate sneering menace by Read More

Let George Do It

Actors: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby plays a dimwitted entertainer who is mistaken for a notorious Nazi spy. The misunderstanding is played to the hilt, culminating with our hero battling the forces of the Axis Read More

The Frozen Limits

Synopsis: The Crazy Gang, a pre-Monty Python group of British "nut" comedians, were popular on stage and screen from 1935 through 1962. In The Frozen Limits, the comic sextet--Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold--head to Alaska to take advantage of the 1898 Read More

The Terror

Actors: Wilfred Lawson, Bernard Lee, Arthur Wontner, Linden Travers, Henry Oscar

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1928, the old Edgar Wallace novel The Terror was dusted off for another cinematic go-round ten years later. A spectacular crime spree, instigated by a mysterious miscreant known only as "The Terror", has galvanized Scotland Yard into action. The trail of clues leads to a Read More

The Black Tulip

Synopsis: The Black Tulip may sound like an action-packed swashbuckler, but is in fact a low-key melodrama set in long-ago Holland. Campbell Gulan plays a merchant whose desire to cultivate black tulips turns into an obsession. Only horticulturalist Patrick Waddington knows the secret behind the creation of Read More

Rhodes

Actors: Walter Huston, Oscar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier, Peggy Ashcroft

Synopsis: African-American students who have accepted Rhodes scholarships may feel like wincing at Rhodes of Africa, an unabashed celebration of British imperialism. Walter Huston portrays Cecil Rhodes, the 19th century explorer who dreamed of "taming" the rugged African terrain. Establishing the colony of Read More

The River House Mystery

The Double Event

Deadwood Pass

Synopsis: Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row company Monarch. Tyler played an innocent victim of circumstances and Wales was the law-fighting postal inspector who mistakes him for a notorious outlaw known only as The Hawk. Read More