Brenda de Banzie Filmography

The Pink Panther

Actors: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: In the first in a series of detective comedies from director Blake Edwards starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop is actually a supporting player. David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom." Vacationing Read More

A Pair of Briefs

Synopsis: In this drama, two young attorneys working for their uncle, find themselves facing off in court. One of the is defending a wife; the other, her husband who is suing for conjugal rights. As both lawyers are fresh from law school, things in court are often chaotic, and they suffer several fiascoes Read More

I Thank a Fool

Actors: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to England. Dying slowly and in great pain, her love begs her to help him die quickly. With great compassion, she does so with a large morphine injection. Unfortunately, her mercy Read More

Come September

Actors: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot's major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is Read More

The Mark

Actors: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered by sex. After an affair with a woman his own age ends badly, Mark finds himself increasingly drawn to young girls, who he feels do not pose the same threat of emasculation Read More

Flame in the Streets

Actors: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Earl Cameron, Johnny Sekka

Synopsis: Versatile director Roy Baker tackles the question of racial bias in this dated but effective drama, a working-class version of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Jacko Palmer (John Mills) is a dedicated, talented union leader who manages to mediate an upheaval over a black foreman at work and prevent a Read More

The Entertainer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Alan Bates, Albert Finney

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son of a legendary music hall comedian (Roger Livesey), Archie is strictly a third-rater, headlining a tacky music hall revue in a seedy seaside resort town. Archie can't admit Read More

The 39 Steps

Actors: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis: This remake of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller does not have his flair for suspense, but director Ralph Thomas keeps the action moving, offers some comic highlights, and the story itself carries the 90-minute running time. Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) is at a vaudeville show when a shot rings out Read More

Room 43

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors, Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, Brenda de Banzie

Synopsis: Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash "Lemmy Caution," he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed and he needs a big loan, he agrees to a five-minute marriage to Malou, a naive French girl, so she can become a British citizen. Read More

Too Many Crooks

Actors: George Cole, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sidney James

Synopsis: An uneven but at times hilarious slapstick comedy, Too Many Crooks features an inept gang of four would-be criminals who manage to botch every job they plan. After a few dismal failures they try to rob the wealthy, philandering Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) and fail again. Unwilling to let go of a Read More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gélin, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who Read More

Triple Deception

Actors: Michael Craig, Julia Arnall, Brenda de Banzie, Barbara Bates, David Kossoff

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama, a decent British sailor stationed in France is forced to smuggle gold when one of the gang members mistakes him for their contact who was killed. Real trouble ensues when the seaman is arrested and interrogated by a group of international police. He finally proves Read More

A Kid for Two Farthings

Actors: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Brenda de Banzie, Joe Robinson

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, Carol Reed tries for a bit of neo-realist whimsy that takes place in the London slums of Petticoat Lane. The film centers upon Joe (Jonathan Ashmore), a six-year-old London East-ender who believes strongly in the magical power of unicorns. Joe and his lonely mother Read More

Doctor at Sea

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Brenda de Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his first job as ship's doctor on a freighter, Simon again runs afoul of James Robertson Justice, here cast not as the irascible Sir Lancelot Sprat but as ship's captain Hogg. Read More

As Long As They're Happy

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jean Carson, Brenda de Banzie, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen

Synopsis: Not quite a full-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance interludes. Adapted from the London stage hit of the same name, the film stars Jack Buchanan as stockbroker John Bentley, whose household is thrown into a tizzy when popular singing Read More

What Every Woman Wants

Actors: William Sylvester, Elsy Albiin, Patric Doonan, Dominic Roche

Synopsis: What Every Woman Wants!, at least according to this British comedy-drama, is a roof over her head. Elsy Albin and Patric Doonan play Jane and Mark, a newlywed couple with no home of their own. Forced to live with Jane's parents, the young marrieds are never permitted a moment's privacy. 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

Don't Blame the Stork

Synopsis: Veronica Hurst is the star of the 1954 British frivolity Don't Blame the Stork. Hurst plays an actress who will do anything for publicity. When an infant is abandoned on the doorstep of celebrated actor Ian Hunter, Hurst steps forth to claim that the baby is hers. Ever so many embarrassing Read More

The Happiness of Three Women

Actors: Petula Clark, Donald Houston, Patricia Cutts, Eynon Evans

Synopsis: Postman Evans helps 3 women who wish for better lives after throwing coins into a wishing well in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide 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

Hobson's Choice

Actors: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales

Synopsis: A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice, hero John Mills finds after several reels of evidence to the contrary that he does have a choice over how he'll conduct his life after all. Mills Read More

I Believe in You

Actors: Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins, George Relph

Synopsis: Inspired by the recent success of The Blue Lamp, I Believe in You is a multiplotted British drama about parole officers. Several short character vignettes pass our way as the film studies the various methods employed by the officers in dealing with their charges. The film settles upon Cecil Read More

Never Look Back

Synopsis: This romantic mystery involves a young lawyer whose old flame is accused of murdering his mistress. She takes his case and beats her adversary, a lawyer who wants to marry her, by disclosing her former relationship with him. Her reputation is ruined when it is found that the man really is guilty Read More

Private Information

Synopsis: A determined, fearless widow seeks to expose government corruption in her home city in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Long Dark Hall

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Henrietta Barry

Synopsis: Rex Harrison's extramarital relationship with Patricia Wayne comes to an end when Wayne is murdered. All evidence points to Harrison; we know that he's innocent, but the detectives don't have this advantage. With his faithful wife Lilli Palmer at his side, Harrison goes on trial for his life. Anthony Dawson Read More