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Oct. 16, 2009 5:24 AM ET (AP)
Crew: Director
Synopsis: This English comedy is based on a short play by Peter Shaffer (better known for Equus). Belinda is a free-spirited American woman married to a stuffy English rolled-umbrella man. When he leaves for work each day, she leaves their London apartment too. She says she's just sightseeing, but he Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory
Synopsis: Flap is marginally significant as the only western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as Flapping Eagle, a modern-day Native American stuck on a squalid reservation. Though liquored up most of the time, Flapping Eagle undergoes an eleventh-hour social awakening. Read More
Actors: Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild
Synopsis: Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. For its first half-hour or so, Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo
Synopsis: Adapted by Philip Dunne from the novel by Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstacy is the story of the 16th century war of wills between Renaissance artist Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and "warrior pope" Julius II (Rex Harrison). Commissioned to paint a religious fresco on the ceiling of the Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield
Synopsis: Based upon a novel by Shelley Smith, The Running Man opens at the memorial service for Rex Black (Laurence Harvey), the owner of a small air transport company who is believed to have drowned in a recent glider accident. It soon turns out, however, that Black is very much alive; he faked his death Read More
Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward
Synopsis: Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act Read More
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
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez
Synopsis: Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air somersault. Tony Curtis co-stars as an aspiring aerialist who coerces Lancaster into teaching Read More
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
Actors: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegarde Neff, Geoffrey Toone, Dieter Krause
Synopsis: Young Britisher Susanne Mallinson (Claire Bloom) is visiting the occupied city of postwar Berlin, as the guest of her brother, Major Martin Mallinson (Geoffrey Toone) and his wife Bettina (Hildegarde Neff), whom he met during his initial stay in Berlin as a British Army doctor. They seem happily Read More
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Kerima, Wendy Hiller
Synopsis: Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Trevor Howard plays a degenerate British expatriate who wanders aimlessly around a Malayan island. Most of the film involves the search for Howard by those Read More
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
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
Actors: James Mason, Robert Newton, Fay Compton, Robert Beatty, Maureen Delaney, Kathleen Ryan, W.G. Fay, F.J. McCormick, Cyril Cusack
Synopsis: Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars James Mason in his star-making role as I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen. Breaking out of jail, Johnny takes it on the lam, but idealism forces him out of hiding in order to raise Read More
Synopsis: British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. The movie was assembled from actual footage of the WWII allied invasion of Europe, captured by thousands of different camera operators. Starting with D-Day, the documentary Read More
Actors: David Niven, Raymond Huntley, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway, James Donald
Synopsis: The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44 minutes. When Winston Churchill approached David Niven about creating a film that would do for the British Army what In Which We Serve had done for the Royal Navy, he contacted Read More
Actors: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Raymond Lovell, Max Adrian
Synopsis: Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament Read More
Actors: Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Wilding, Sr., Arthur Riscoe, Max Adrian, Philip Sydney Frost
Synopsis: Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large Read More
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Synopsis: Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the Read More
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Barry Barnes, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey, Basil Radford, Margaretta Scott, Wyndham Goldie
Synopsis: Also known as Girl in the Case, this early Carol Reed effort tended to be dismissed or ignored by its director in later interviews. Even so, the film is a worthwhile effort, with an intricate and sometimes amusing script by Sydney Gilliat. Young lawyer Stephen Garringdon (Barry K. Barnes) manages Read More
Actors: George Robey, Naunton Wayne
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, George Robey, Hugh Sinclair
Synopsis: A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer). Both feel that they could live most comfortably off the money inherited by the Earl of Pangborough (Hugh Sinclair) a handsome but unworldly nobleman. Despite the most Read More
Actors: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Edward Rigby
Synopsis: A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film is set in a northern England mining town (far more realistically depicted than the back-lot Welsh village in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. The parents of Michael Redgrave have labored long and hard so that their Read More
Actors: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, Renee Ray, Linden Travers, Merle Tottenham
Synopsis: A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class Brightoners on holiday. Margaret Lockwood and Hugh Williams played the largest roles, as a couple who find love during their one-day respite from work. Comic relief (which in this Read More
Actors: Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim
Synopsis: Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews, Climbing High emerged as a straight romantic comedy, albeit one that sometimes sets up musical numbers that don't occur. Michael Redgrave plays Nicky Brooke, a millionaire Read More
Synopsis: In this early film from director Sir Carol Reed, Edmund Gwenn stars as Joe Higgins, a hardworking tugboat captain who is ecstatic when he learns that he has won a lucrative soccer pool. To celebrate, Higgins quits his job and invites all his pals to the local tavern for a wingding. But during the Read More
Synopsis: Based upon a hit German musical that had already been filmed in 1934, Who's Your Lady Friend? emerged as a British comedy-with-music in 1937. Dr. Mangold (played by Vic Oliver, a popular dance-band leader of the day) is a famous Viennese "beauty specialist" (i.e., plastic surgeon), saddled with a Read More
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper, Ethel Coleridge, Katie Johnson
Synopsis: Though director Carol Reed seldom included Laburnham Grove on his resumé, he allowed that it was quite successful, and a cut above the minor programmers he was usually assigned in the mid-1930s. Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, the film stars Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Radfern -- solid citizen by Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Sally Eilers, Basil Sydney, Randle Ayrton, Charles Carson, Frederick Culley
Synopsis: In this drama, a deliciously nasty villain endeavors to steal a successful shipping firm from an honest man. To get the company and gather information, the villain employs a talented mimic who begins dating the daughter of the company president. He succeeds and causes the president to take his own Read More
Synopsis: Based upon a famous swashbuckling adventure story by Captain Frederick Marryat, Midshipman Easy is a ripping yarn that served as Carol Reed's solo directorial debut. Jack Easy (16-year-old Hughie Green) signs on for a tour of duty aboard the HMS Harpy, a British ship sailing the Spanish-ridden Read More
Synopsis: After spending time working as dialogue director on a number of films, Carol Reed made his directorial debut as co-director of It Happened in Paris. Based upon a French play by Yves Mirande, Paris stars John Loder as Paul, the artistically-inclined son of an American millionaire. Serious about his Read More
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