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Actors: Twiggy, Lee Whitlock
Synopsis: Aimed at the ten- to 15-year-old demographic, this six-episode British series offered an entertaining if not entirely accurate overview of celebrated comedian Charlie Chaplin's formative years. Though fairly explicit in detailing the alcoholism of Chaplin's music hall headliner father Charles Read More
Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a young CIA operative gets entangled in the abduction of a scientist who possesses a unique formula for energy. The scientist was abducted as he tried to defect with the formula. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff, Thorley Walters, Nancy Nevinson
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
Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Cribbins, Ron Moody, David Kossoff, Terry-Thomas
Synopsis: From Richard Lester, the director of 1980's Superman II and the 1964 A Hard Day's Night, comes this less-successful sequel to the The Mouse that Roared. The Prime Minister of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick (Ron Moody) is in a bind because he has no money to renovate his castle and there is a serious Read More
Actors: Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Una Stubbs, The Shadows, Teddy Green
Synopsis: British filmmaker Peter Yates directs singer Cliff Richard in the starring role in this early 1960s pop music romp. Richard plays Don, a mechanic who, with three friends, is preparing to launch an offbeat European continental travel service using an old London double-decker bus. On a test run Read More
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eric Portman, Eileen Herlie
Synopsis: Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering psychotherapist. The brooding, introspective Montgomery Clift was a curious choice for the role of Sigmund Freud; at times he looks more off the beam than some of his Read More
Actors: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis de Wolff
Synopsis: This is the film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in which Hyde is the handsome, clean-shaven one. Though top-billed Christopher Lee, portraying a caddish playboy, was the beneficiary of all the ad publicity, it is Paul Massie who plays Dr. Jekyll Read More
Synopsis: Based on a British TV comedy, this is the tale of a London couple who inherit a pub in the country, only to find that their troubles are just beginning. Someone doesn't seem to want to make their business a success, but their invention should stop all that nonsense. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven
Synopsis: Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered colleagues, Palmer hides a group of Jewish orphans from the Nazis. She then attempts to shepherd the kids to the safety of foster homes. Danger looms in the form of Nazi Read More
Actors: Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey, Linda Christian, Donald Wolfit, David Kossoff
Synopsis: Reminiscent of the film noir detective films like The Maltese Falcon, The House of Seven Hawks is really the same type of bird. Aptly directed by Richard Thorpe, the story features Robert Taylor as John Nordley, the captain of a charter-boat service on the British sea coast. Nordley's problem is Read More
Actors: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Morley, E.G. Marshall
Synopsis: The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I in 1956. Deborah Kerr is Lady Diana Ashmore, caught at the wrong side of the Hungarian-Austrian border in 1956, and Yul Brynner is Major Surov, a Russian commander who works Read More
Actors: Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Bernard Braden, Diane Cilento
Synopsis: In this airborne disaster movie, a has-been brilliant scientist plants a bomb on a transatlantic jet to exact revenge upon a passenger whom he blames for his daughter's death -- she died during a plane crash. When the booby-trap is discovered and the passengers learn the motive for the scientists' Read More
Actors: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Leo McKern, Timothy Bateson
Synopsis: The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff
Synopsis: Adapted by Norman Krasna from his play Kind Sir, Indiscreet stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard. While Grant is visiting London, Bergman's sister Phyllis Calvert and brother-in-law Cecil Parker introduce Grant to Bergman. Because he feels Read More
Actors: June Archer, Brian Hammond, Flora Robson, David Kossoff
Synopsis: Based on the Rumer Godden novel An Episode of Sparrows, Innocent Sinners stars June Archer and Christopher Hey as the title characters. Neglected by her mother, contentious little Lovejoy (Archer) runs off to an abandoned London building, where with the help of several street urchins she begins to Read More
Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick, Annemarie Düringer, David Kossoff, Claude Kingston, Rolf Lefebvre
Synopsis: Count Five and Die is a neat British-made programmer set just before the D-Day invasion. Nigel Patrick plays a British major who heads a group of special agents, dedicated to misleading the Nazis into thinking the invasion will take place in Holland. The Allied spies, which include American Jeffrey Hunter Read More
Actors: Michael Redgrave, Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, Mervyn Johns
Synopsis: A prosaic filmization of George Orwell's cautionary novel, 1984 is set in a futuristic totalitarian society where individuality is forbidden. The ruler is the never-seen "Big Brother," whose minions have monitored and bugged the activities of the populace so that no one can harbor any "subversive" Read More
Actors: Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodliffe, David Kossoff
Synopsis: Wicked as They Come stars Arlene Dahl as Kathy Allen, whose sour attitude on life has been formed by a sexual assault in her childhood. Rising out of the shabbiness of the Lower East Side, Kathy ruthlessly climbs the social and financial ladder by using and then abandoning a series of gullible Read More
Actors: Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, George Margo
Synopsis: Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual double entendres in favor of pure-and-simple slapstick, Hill plays a would-be private eye named Hugo. Before he quite knows what's happening, Hugo is up to his neck in Read More
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
Actors: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Walsh, Jack Warner, Pamela Brown
Synopsis: Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon Grey play Janette Grant and Mike Pritchard, who fall in love despite the objections of Janette's wealthy parents. Realizing that they will never be permitted to marry Read More
Actors: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
Synopsis: Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is a long-lost classic or the unmitigated disaster many have claimed it to be. Essentially a rehash of Ninotchka, the film stars Bob Hope as Chuck Lockwood, an American 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: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff, Violet Farebrother
Synopsis: Comparatively little known, the British A Woman for Joe is an excellent showcase for leading lady Diane Cilento (later better known as Mrs. Sean Connery). The actress is cast as Mary, a carnival performer hired by fairground impresario Joe Harrap (George Baker). Mary was employed at the behest of Read More
Actors: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl
Synopsis: Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. Set in pre-Hitler Berlin, the film details the curious, chaste relationship between Sally, an entertainer at a bawdy nightclub, and fledgling writer Christopher Isherwood (Lawrence Read More
Actors: Hildegarde Neff, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, Derek Bond, Paul Rogers
Synopsis: In Svengali, the 1955 adaptation of George DuMaurier's classic novel Trilby, Donald Wolfit achieves the near-impossible: he out-hams John Barrymore, who'd played Svengali in the 1931 version. A last-minute replacement for the equally flamboyant Robert Newton, Wolfit pulls out all the stops as the Read More
Actors: Odile Versois, David Knight, Joseph Tomelty, Paul Carpenter, Theodore Bikel, David Kossoff
Synopsis: Also known as Chance Meeting, The Young Lovers can be described as an Iron Curtain romance. The boy, Ted (David Knight), works as a code expert at the American Embassy in London. The girl, Anna (Odelle Versois), is the daughter of a communist dignitary. When Ted and Anna fall in love, they find Read More
Actors: Felix Aylmer, Diane Cilento, Robert Eddison, Jerry Desmonde, Joe Linnane
Synopsis: The rundown British community of Islington is visited by a heavenly angel (Diane Cilento), sent down on a do-good mission. Her principal assignment is to soften the heart of a soulless pawnbroker (Felix Aylmer), and to that end appears in human form to do what the title says she does. During her Read More
Synopsis: Johnny Fraser is a middle-class Briton jealous of the conspicuous consumption of his next door neighbors (Peter Reynolds, Lana Morris). To show them up, Fraser buys his wife (Eileen Moore) a valuable mink jacket. He goes deeply into debt, then goes deeper still as he borrows to pay for the loan Read More
Synopsis: Nikolai Gogol's classic short story The Overcoat was adapted for British consumption into The Bespoke Overcoat. Comic actor Alfie Bass plays a clothing-store clerk who'd like to own one of the sales items in his store. He is denied this pleasure by his hardhearted boss, so the clerk persuades a Read More
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