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Actors: Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack, Sarah Pickering, Joan Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes
Synopsis: Little Dorrit was intended as the cinematic equivalent to the mammoth, eight hour Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby. The film was released to theatres in two parts, each running approximately three hours. The first part, subtitled "Nobody's Fault," introduced us to Read More
Actors: Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis
Synopsis: Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a difference. Captain Red (Walter Matthau) runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor (Cris Campion). One day Capt. Red is Read More
Actors: Peter Chelsom, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: In a charming tale about the spirit of Christmas giving, Nigel Playfayre (Peter Chelsom) is a callous investment manager somewhere in the middle cogs of a bank who is charged with delivering the Christmas turkey to an impoverished London family. On his reluctant way to fulfill his onerous Read More
Actors: Robert Stephens, Virginia McKenna, Judith Howarth
Synopsis: The acclaimed Tony Palmer helmed this 1984 biopic on 19th and early 20th century Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, here portrayed by Robert Stephens. Palmer opts to focus not on the whole gestalt of Puccini's life, but on a devastating scandal that transpired in 1909, when Giacomo's wife, Elvira Read More
Actors: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laszlo Galffi, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
Synopsis: Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken its long-winded cue from the lengthy operas of the famous 19th-century German composer and musical theorist -- the Ring des Nibelungen is 14-15 hours in itself, divided into Read More
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove
Synopsis: Having already been seen spying for the Nazis in 1979's The Eagle Has Landed, Donald Sutherland once more infiltrates wartime England on behalf of Der Fuhrer in Eye of the Needle. Willing to kill even the most innocent of bystanders to complete his task, Sutherland manages to remain in Britain Read More
Actors: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, Bill Fraser, Frederick Treves
Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part Meglos, the Doctor (Tom Baker) has managed to escape a time loop, not to mention his mercenary captors. Will he be in time to prevent Meglos (Christopher Owen), the power-hungry solo survivor of the Zolfa-Thuran civilization, from destroying the planet Tigella? Read More
Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part Meglos, the title character has disguised himself as the Doctor (Tom Baker) and stolen the power source of the planet Tigella, the better to restore the tattered glories of Meglos' own race. Meanwhile, the Doctor tries to figure out a means of escape, so that Read More
Synopsis: The title character in this four-chapter Doctor Who adventure is the last survivor of the Zolfa-Thuran civilization. While on a diplomatic mission to the cult-dominated planet Tigella, the Doctor (Tom Baker) is intercepted by Meglos, who has hatched a scheme to access Tigella's power source. Jacqueline Hill Read More
Actors: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part Meglos, the title character (Christopher Owen) is determined to restore his past glories as the ruler of the now-extinct Zolfa-Thuran civilization. To do this, Meglos kidnaps the Doctor (Tom Baker) and assumes his identity, the better to tap the precious Read More
Synopsis: Written by Monty Python veterans, More Ripping Yarns includes the skits "The Testing of Eric Olwaite," "Whinfrey's Last Case" and "The Curse of the Claw." ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Bill Fraser, Katharine Hepburn, Anna Massey, Ian Saynor
Synopsis: Welsh-born writer Emlyn Williams' 1938 play The Corn is Green originally starred Ethel Barrymore as L.C. Moffat, the strong-willed schoolteacher under whose guidance the illiterate Welsh teenager Morgan Evans matriculates as an honor student. Bette Davis played Moffat in the 1945 film version; Read More
Actors: Ray Cooney, Roy Kinnear, Carol Hawkins
Synopsis: Lewis Flander and Carol Hawkins star in the hectic British farce Not Now Comrade. Flander plays a Russian ballet dancer who decides to defect. Unable to reach the British embassy, Flander hides out with London stripteaser Hawkins. There's an abundance of female flesh in this one, a fact that Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy a prejudiced couple innocently wins a racial tension easing contest. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Valerie Minifie, Angharad Rees, Bill Fraser, Jeannette Sterke, Donald Hewlett
Synopsis: Keith Michell plays a middle-aged accountant, bored with his routine existence. When his wife and child are killed in an accident, Michell quits his job of 20 years and heads for the resort hotel where he and his late wife had spent many happy moments. Here he has a brief, desperate affair with a Read More
Actors: Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams
Synopsis: Based on a book by National Hunt jockey Dick Francis, the horseracing thriller Dead Cert was filmed in the village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K. When jockey Bill Davidson (Ian Hogg) is killed in a horseracing incident, his best friend Alan York (Scott B. Anthony) decides to investigate. He believes Read More
Actors: David Battley, Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley, John Ronane
Synopsis: Bill Fraser and Raymond Huntley star in the raucous British farce That's Your Funeral. Fraser and Huntley play Bullstrode and Holroyd, rival undertakers. The animosity between the two is amplified when drug traffickers attempt to use coffins and hearses to smuggle their wares. David Battley and John Ronane Read More
Synopsis: Zany British comedian Frankie Howerd, who'd previously laid waste to Ancient Rome in Up Pompeii, does same with World War II in Up the Front. Howerd plays a timorous servant who undergoes hypnosis. While thus entranced, he imagines himself a fearless warrior, and makes a beeline to the recruiting Read More
Actors: Andrea Lloyd
Synopsis: Actor Frankie Howerd reprises his role from the British TV series Up Pompeii, in the tradition of the hugely popular Carry On series. The rest of the cast comes from these two series as well. There is a plot to kill the Emperor Nero (Patrick Cargill), and his loyal slave Lurcio (Howard) Read More
Actors: Bill Fraser, Anna Quayle, Frankie Howerd
Synopsis: The British farce Naughty Knights was originally shipped out as Up the Chastity Belt. Raucuous comedian Frankie Howerd, who laid waste to Roman history in the zany TV series Up Pompeii, is the star. The film's medieval adventures, involving a noble knight and his stupid serf, are punctuated by Read More
Actors: Warren Mitchell, Pat Heywood, Elaine Taylor, Kenneth Cranham, Vanessa Howard
Synopsis: Warren Mitchell stars in All the Way Up as a dimwitted British salesman. Though a bit shy in the brains department, Mitchell has hopes of climbing the corporate ladder. To do this, he tries to whip his addled family into a semblance of social acceptability. This being a comedy, Mitchell soon Read More
Actors: David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Dany Robin, Warren Mitchell
Synopsis: In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This comedy chronicles what happens when secretary John Bird appoints Sir Francis Leybourne to run the place. Bird then has his lovely girlfriend Babbette act as the Madame. Sir Read More
Actors: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City thrusts several "name" actors into the specialized world of Jules Verne. Six 19th-century shipwreck victims are rescued by a modernistic submarine. The skipper is Captain Nemo (Robert Ryan), who had not died at the end of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as viewers Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Maggie Blye, Francisca Tu
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the Read More
Actors: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Christopher Witty, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: In this blend of action-adventure and spy satire, the British government has been negotiating with the Middle Eastern nation of Ramaut to lease their oil fields for drilling by U.K. petroleum companies, but at the last minute, the deal collapses, and Col. Drexel (Jack Hawkins), a military leader Read More
Actors: Diana Rigg, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: When a British farmer lapses into a coma, it appears to be the byproduct of a voodoo curse. Sent to the jungles of Kalaya to investigate, Steed uncovers a long-range plan to eliminate all Englishmen in the vicinity. The villains' principal weapons are superstition and a highly developed species of Read More
Actors: Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, Bill Fraser, Percy Herbert, Lance Percival
Synopsis: In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service. Naturally they choose the army. Once they are assigned to a post they set up successful gambling and liquor operations. When they go overseas, they do the same thing. They are then Read More
Actors: Billy Fury, Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin, Marjorie Rhodes, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: In this comedy, an irresponsible pop singer avoids rehearsing for his gig for a summer show by the sea in favor of playing with his dogs. He then purchases a racehorse and goes off to watch it race. The show's opening night totally slips his mind until the very last minute. He gets back in the Read More
Actors: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell
Synopsis: The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward. While his comrades sail off to their deaths, Garner makes himself scarce, generally hiding out in the London flat of his lothario navy buddy James Coburn Read More
Actors: James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Kathleen Harrison, Julie Christie
Synopsis: The star of this slapstick comedy is not a person but an antique Bentley sports car, the source of several misadventures. Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is a simple civil servant who has his heart set on romancing Claire (Julie Christie in an early role), the daughter of wealthy businessman Read More
Actors: Joe Brown, Susan Maughan, Marty Wilde, Harry H. Corbett, Avis Bunnage
Synopsis: Alf (Joe Brown) is a young man from London's East End who tries to rise above his impoverished conditions. His parents worry that he will fall into a life of crime hanging around his neighborhood buddies. When he is inspired to write the song "What A Crazy Gang", his efforts pique the interest of Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, a man chooses an unethical way to help keep a financially struggling boy's club from closing down, by threatening to publish incriminating articles about prominent people who have recently died. His blackmail scheme is successful until he attempts to extort from a gangster's Read More
Actors: Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery, Sidney James
Synopsis: Lana Turner stars as Sara Scott, an American war correspondent whose whirlwind romance with a young British journalist (Sean Connery) ends in tragedy when his plane crashes while covering an assignment. After recovering from a nervous breakdown, Sara tries to come to terms with her grief by Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, a pair of newlywed workers at an ad agency find themselves unable to honeymoon when she is suddenly assigned to work in the US. While she is gone, her husband begins falling for his sexy secretary, but then realizes he is making a terrible mistake and decides to stay true to his Read More
Actors: Norman Wisdom, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips, Delphi Lawrence, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Sims
Synopsis: Norman Wisdom, Britain's much-funnier answer to Jerry Lewis, stars in Just My Luck. Wisdom plays a humble jewelry-store clerk who begins playing the horses, the better to raise enough money to buy a fancy gift for girlfriend Anne (Jill Dixon). Much to his surprise, Wisdom wins a fortune at the Read More
Actors: Max Bygraves, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin, Florence Desmond, Shirley Eaton
Synopsis: Reginald Arkell's backstage novel Charley Moon made a successful transition to the screen in 1956. Comic actor Max Bygraves stars as Moon, a small-time music-hall performer with an eye for the ladies. A string of lucky breaks, and a little bit of ruthlessness on Charley's part, allows him a chance Read More
Actors: Stanley Holloway, A.E. Matthews, Tony Wright, Alfie Bass
Synopsis: Ribald music hall comedian Frankie Howerd stars in the British laughspinner Jumping for Joy. Set in the rarefied world of dog racing, the film stars Howerd as trackboy Willie, who is unceremoniously booted from his job. Teaming up with con artist Jack (Stanley Holloway), Willie decides to get even Read More
Synopsis: When John Preston (Christopher Lee) comes out of nowhere to settle in Deanbridge, he rises quickly in the town's small circle of leaders and meets Sally, the daughter of a leading family. He asks her to marry him, but then he begins to have repeating nightmares about a passionate blonde Read More
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi
Synopsis: The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at the time of her death was a full-fledged contessa. Her life story unfolds in flashback recollections from her mourners. Film director Humphrey Bogart recalls how his career Read More
Actors: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, David Farrar, Patrick Barr, George Coulouris
Synopsis: In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond broker who drowned while diving for diamonds off the African coast. The broker had been insured for over $1 million. The sleuth's prime suspect is the broker's fiancee. He Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, the routines of two British army barracks are disrupted when they are invaded by a Hollywood film unit while their CO is away. Trouble ensues when he returns unannounced. Now the filmmakers must convince him to allow them to keep filming. To do so, they employ the charms of a Read More
Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams, Victor Maddern
Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Terror on a Train, the British MGM production Time Bomb is brief, to the point, and so suspenseful it hurts. Glenn Ford stars as Peter Lyncourt, who during WW II had been in charge of a bomb demolition unit. As luck would have it, Lyncourt and his French wife Janine (Anne Vernon Read More
Actors: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty
Synopsis: Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway plays Hollingsworth, an actor who is playing Lucifer in a stage production. While being hoisted through a trap door, Hollingsworth is knocked cold. While unconscious, he is Read More
Actors: Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Charles Goldner, Miles Malleson
Synopsis: In this bright British comedy, we meet Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) as he stands before a firing squad and then learn of the curious chain of events that brought him to his fate. Henry is a ship's captain ferrying a steamer between Gibraltar and North Africa on a regular basis, and he's Read More
Actors: Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name. Several rotating playlets were presented in the original Tonight at 8:30, most of them starring Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. The film version utilizes Read More
Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freaky accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, an eccentric, wealthy young man impersonates a hobo in order to save a flophouse that is slated for destruction. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
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