Diana DorsFilmography

Steaming

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors, Patti Love, Brenda Bruce

Synopsis: This is a story of a group of women overcoming several obstacles by helping each other out, even if that means just listening. Seven different women whose backgrounds are filled in by flashbacks and narration are together in a steambath on ladies' day. Violet (Diana Dors) is the maternal manager Read More

Children of the Full Moon

Synopsis: This is another installment in the excellent Hammer House of Horror series, repackaged for U.S. cable television and, once again, for Thrillervideo, featuring host bumpers (so to speak) from buxom horror hostess Elvira. This chapter stars Diana Dors as the caretaker of a creepy old house set in Read More

Just William [TV Series]

Actors: Adrian Dannatt, Hugh Cross, Diana Fairfax, Stacy Dorning, Simon Chandler

Synopsis: Just William was one of two identically titled British TV series adapted from Richmal Crompton's best-selling books about naughty schoolboy William Brown. The terror of everyone over the age of consent, William and his youthful gang, the appropriately yclept "the Outlaws," seemed incapable of Read More

Adventures of a Private Eye

Actors: Suzy Kendall, Christopher Neil

Synopsis: The British "Adventures Of..." series can be described as a dirtier "Carry On" (if such a thing is possible). Christopher Neil plays the title character in 1987's Adventures of a Private Eye. Neil's life is plunged into peril when he agrees to deal with a blackmailer. To achieve his purposes, our Read More

Keep It Up Downstairs

Synopsis: Looming bankruptcy makes an English family stop their excessive spending in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures of a Taxi Driver

Actors: Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Adrienne Posta

Synopsis: A sexy comedy about the carnal exploits of a cab driver who gets mixed up with gang of jewel thieves. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Amorous Milkman

Rosie

Nurse Will Make it Better

Synopsis: Nurse Will Make it Better is a videotaped chiller starring Diana Dors and Andrea Marcovicci. Dors plays a nurse, while Marcovicci portrays a seriously ill patient. A devotee of The Occult, Dors promises to cure Marcovicci through use of black magic. She does, but the horrible consequences are not Read More

The Devil's Web

Synopsis: When she's hired to nurse the daughter of an American ambassador, a woman begins influencing the girl's actions, as well as those of her two sisters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Craze

Actors: Jack Palance

Synopsis: Another slice of processed cheese from Herman Cohen, producer of Trog and other such wonders. This cheap occult programmer (ostensibly based on the novel Infernal Idol by Henry Seymour) stars Jack Palance as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the Read More

Theater of Blood

Actors: Brigid Eric Bates, Stanley Bates, Jack Maguire, Bunny Reed, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after Read More

Steptoe and Son Ride Again

From Beyond the Grave

Actors: Ian Bannen, Ian Carmichael, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton, Ian Ogilvy, Donald Pleasence, Nyree Dawn Porter, David Warner

Synopsis: The multipart From Beyond the Grave features Peter Cushing as the owner of a sinister antique shop. Utilizing the various artifacts in his establishment, Cushing metes out retribution to customers who try to bamboozle him. The quartet of horror playlets included herein are "The Gate Crasher," "An Read More

The Devil's Undead

Synopsis: More widely seen in Britain as Nothing but the Night, this atmospheric chiller -- based on the novel Children of the Night by John Blackburn -- stars the ubiquitous Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as a Scotland Yard inspector and a forensics expert sent to investigate a series of Read More

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Actors: Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Dorothy Alison, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger

Synopsis: The title character is a ghost, doomed to roam his mansion until an age-old mystery is solved. A widow Dorothy Alison and her two children are "hired" by the wraith-like Blunden to aid him in his sleuthing. Also joining in on the investigation are two ghostly kids, who'd been mistreated in life. Read More

Hannie Caulder

Actors: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, Jack Elam

Synopsis: It's hard to discern the filmmakers' true point of view on Hannie Caulder. On one hand, you've got the heavily somber story of Raquel Welch's efforts to exact vengeance on the men who raped her and killed her husband. On the other hand, you've got the leisurely-paced, lightly amusing sequences in Read More

There's a Girl in My Soup

Actors: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, John Comer, Diana Dors

Synopsis: The television host of a popular cooking show, Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) has a real penchant for women. After one episode, he finds Marion (Goldie Hawn) changing from a wedding dress to street clothes. Instantly deciding to get to her and "take over" before the groom, Jimmy (Nicky Henson) has Read More

Deep End

Actors: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors

Synopsis: John Moulder-Brown plays a teen-aged London bathhouse attendant who forms a business alliance with female attendant Jane Asher. The object is to obtain better tips from their clients, but soon the impressionable Moulder-Brown falls in love with the older Asher. Brushed off by the girl in favor of Read More

Baby Love

Actors: Ann Lynn, Keith Barron, Linda Hayden, Derek Lamden, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Luci (Linda Hayden) is the illegitimate teenage sex kitten who goes to live with a doctor and his family after her sleazy, promiscuous mother (Diana Dors) dies. Robert (Keith Barron) is the doctor who may very well be Luci's father. Convinced Robert contributed to her mother's demise by rejecting Read More

Danger Route

Actors: Richard Johnson, Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms, Diana Dors

Synopsis: British agents drop like skeets in this convoluted espionage film. Jonas Wilde (Richard Johnson) is a successful British secret agent who wants to hang up his license to kill and retire. His superior, Canning (Harry Andrews), agrees to accept his resignation if he agrees to one last case Read More

Hammerhead

Actors: Vince Edwards, Judy Geeson, Beverly Adams, Peter Vaughan, Diana Dors

Synopsis: This uneven spy saga finds secret agent Charles Hood (Vince Edwards) on the trail of the criminal master spy Hammerhead (Peter Vaughan). He tries to discover some NATO secrets in between his hobby of collecting antique erotica from around the world. Hood must stop the evil Hammerhead before he Read More

Berserk!

Actors: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Judy Geeson

Synopsis: One of the lower points of Joan Crawford's latter-day career curve (though nothing to compare with the later embarrassment of Trog!), this lurid, low-rent thriller nevertheless gives Crawford the opportunity to chew acres of scenery in a campy Marlene Dietrich-style get-up. She portrays the Read More

The Counterfeit Constable

Synopsis: In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The French fellow has gone to London with his friends to catch a soccer match. He then must go to the dentist where, just for fun, he puts on a British policeman's uniform. Read More

That Swinging City

Synopsis: In this comedy, a homing pigeon wins the big race. Meanwhile the bird's owner continues on with his day. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sandwich Man

Actors: Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a sandwich-board advertising man who gets a tour of London and sees some of the city's most offbeat and outrageous characters in this situation comedy. British blonde bombshell (Diana Dors) co-stars. Watch for Michael Chaplin (son of Charlie) as a beatnik artist. Read More

Allez France!

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Diana Dors, Colette Brosset, Robert Rollis, Catherine Sola, Pierre Olaf

Synopsis: Henri (Robert Dhery) joins a group of rowdy soccer fans who travel from France to London two days before he is supposed to be married, and he goes to the dentist after his two front teeth are knocked out in a melee with rival fans. Sight gags include a busload of drunken fans trying to evade the Read More

West 11

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman, Diana Dors, Kathleen Harrison, Harold Lang

Synopsis: Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) forgoes working for a living in this seedy district of London. He hangs out in jazz clubs and chases women, which makes him lose what little money he has remaining. Ex-Army veteran Richard Dyce (Eric Portman) shows up at the club, and the two directionless louts begin to Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Run for Doom

Actors: John Gavin, Diana Dors, Scott Brady, Carl Benton Reid, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Head over heels in love with brassy nightclub singer Niki Carroll (Diana Dors), Dr. Don Reed (John Gavin) intends to marry her despite the objections of his father, Horace Reed (Carl Benton Reid), and Niki's former boyfriend, Bill Floyd (Scott Brady). Even the fact that all three of Niki's former Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Synopsis: Escaping from an institution, a young retarded boy named Hugo (Brandon de Wilde) is taken under the wing of sideshow magician Sadini (David J. Stewart), whose acts consists of sawing his wife, Irene (Diana Dors), in half. It so happens that Irene is two-timing Sadini -- and worse, she is planning Read More

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys

Synopsis: In this British comedy drama, a dotty old widow finally finds a new love and happiness until her unruly sons bust out of prison and beg her to hide them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

King of the Roaring '20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein

Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Mickey Shaughnessy, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: David Janssen is hardly perfect casting for the role of 1920s gambling king Arnold Rothstein (Rod Steiger or Gene Barry may have been better choices), but the sure-handed direction of Joseph Newman smooths over all the rough spots in this fanciful biopic. Set up in the gambling business by crooked Read More

On the Double

Actors: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day. Trouble begins when he is caught pretending to be the most important generals in England, a man he closely resembles. The two look so much alike that military intelligence Read More

Scent of Mystery

Actors: Denholm Elliott, Liam Redmond, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Peter Arne, Beverly Bentley

Synopsis: Produced by Mike Todd Jr., Scent of Mystery was a misguided attempt to introduce a new gimmick to motion pictures. The plot involved the apparent murder of a mystery woman (Beverly Bentley, at one time the wife of writer Norman Mailer) and the disappearance of several valuables. Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre Read More

Tread Softly Stranger

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two crooked brothers, an embezzler and a gambler, find themselves in deep trouble when the embezzler steals from a steel mill so he can buy his lover fancy clothes. During the theft, he kills a night guard. This spawns an investigation by the slain watchman's son who locates a Read More

The Love Specialist

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic outing, a brainy gal from Texas heads for Italy after winning a television quiz show. There she encounters a down-on-his-luck Italian prince who pursues her because she looks wealthy (she isn't). Of course, she doesn't realize that he his also broke and merry mix-ups ensue. 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

La Ragazza Del Palio

Actors: Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Diana Dors, Britain's equivalent to Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, is virtually the whole show in La Ragazza del Palio (The Girl and the Palio). Diana plays Diana Wilson, a Texas gal who wins a trip to Italy from a radio quiz program. The minute she alights from the plane, our heroine is Read More

The Long Haul

Actors: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson, Peter Reynolds

Synopsis: One of several British melodramas picked up for American distribution by Columbia in the late 1950s, The Long Haul stars Victor Mature and Diana Dors, two of the prettiest and most amply endowned screen personalities of the era. Mature is cast as American ex-GI Harry Miller, who takes a job as a Read More

The Unholy Wife

Actors: Rod Steiger, Diana Dors, Tom Tryon, Marie Windsor

Synopsis: In this crime thriller a young woman marries a wealthy vintner. Soon afterward, she falls in love with a handsome rodeo rider whom she sees every time her husband is away. One night, her mother-in-law spots a burglar outside the house and reports it to the police. The conniving wife sees a window Read More

I Married a Woman

Actors: John Wayne, George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou, Jesse Royce Landis, Nita Talbot

Synopsis: I Married a Woman was tailored by top comedy writer Goodman Ace to the peculiar, low-key talents of TV comedian George Gobel. Lonesome Gobel plays an advertising man whose successful "Miss Luxemburg Beer Beauty Contest" campaign yields a most unusual bonus: the contest's buxom winner Diana Dors Read More

Yield to the Night

Actors: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: Mary Hilton (Diana Dors) is a young salesgirl in the cosmetics department of a major London store, who chances to meet -- and fall hopelessly in love with -- Jim Lancaster (Michael Craig), a young would-be professional musician. She is attracted to him sufficiently to leave her own, neglectful 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

An Alligator Named Daisy

Actors: Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, James Robertson Justice, Jean Carson, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: You gets what you pays for in An Alligator Named Daisy. Donald Sinden stars as a young songwriter who accidentally picks up someone else's alligator suitcase. Somehow this leads to the luckless Sinden being saddled with a baby alligator, who prefers to sleep within his piano. Glamour girl Diana Dors Read More

Miss Tulip Stays the Night

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a writer and his wife are sleeping peacefully in their beds when a mysterious woman shows up, gives the writer her gun, also hands him some jewels and asks for a place to sleep. Unfortunately, someone murders her during the night and the author is accused of the crime. Read More

Value for Money

Actors: John Gregson, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen, Derek Farr, Frank Pettingell

Synopsis: John Gregson stars as Chayley Broadbent, a young Yorkshire businessman leading a dull, perfunctory life. He inherits a sizeable fortune, plus a prosperous textile factory, from his wealthy father. Soon after, he has a fight with his straight-laced girlfriend, Ethel (Susan Stephen) and leaves her 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

The Weak and the Wicked

Actors: Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Jane Hylton, Sidney James

Synopsis: Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the likes of Ida Lupino, Marie Windsor, Peggie Castle and Hope Emerson. Instead, the film was lensed in Britain, with Glynis Johns and Diana Dors heading the cast. Framed on a Read More

The Saint's Girl Friday

Actors: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor

Synopsis: Though filmed ten years after The Saint Meets the Tiger, the British The Saint's Girl Friday is generally regarded as the final entry in RKO's "Saint" series of 1938-43. Louis Hayward, who first played Leslie Charteris' soldier-of-fortune Simon Templar in the 1938 film The Saint in New York Read More

The Great Game

Synopsis: James Hayter plays the chairman of a British football club. Hayter's fondness for gambling results in his involvement with the criminal element. As a result, he becomes mixed up in a few underhanded business deals. The presence of the luscious Diana Dors is perhaps the primary reason that the Read More

It's a Grand Life

Synopsis: Frank Randle tones down the impurities of his music hall routines in the British service comedy It's a Grand Life. Randle plays a put-upon private, while zaftig Diana Dors co-stars as a female corporal. Surprise: Randle's not in love with Dors, but his friend Dan Young is head over heels. Read More

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

Actors: David Tomlinson, Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano, Diana Decker, Sidney James

Synopsis: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? never really answers its own question, but has no difficulty delivering laughs in full measure. U.S. officer Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano) hopes to spend a romantic honeymoon in London with new bride Gillian (Diana Decker). Unfortunately, Vining's former wife Read More

Man Bait

Actors: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds, Diana Dors

Synopsis: The Last Page was the original British title for the 1952 murder meller Man Bait. Hollywood's George Brent plays a married bookstore owner who is blackmailed by scheming Diana Dors. The subsequent chain reaction of events leads to the death of Brent's invalid wife. It gets worse when Dors is Read More

My Wife's Lodger

Synopsis: In this farce, a soldier returns home after six years to find that his home is now also a boardinghouse, and he becomes enemies with a well-liked lodger. Everything turns out all right when the soldier learns that he has inherited a ranch in Texas and the lodger turns out to be a criminal. ~ Steve Read More

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Actors: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Henson, Pauline Stroud

Synopsis: Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests. Waitress Marjorie (Pauline Stroud) enters one competition after another, hoping for fame and fortune. She manages to make the finals of a "Lady Godiva" contest, never Read More

Worm's Eye View

Synopsis: In this comedy, five fighters from the Royal Air Force end up staying in a family home during WW II. Their bitter landlady isn't pleased by her guests and takes it out on her hapless family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dance Hall

Actors: Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors, Petula Clark, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Just before directing the comedy classic The Lavender Hill Mob, Charles Crichton dashed off the romantic melodrama Dance Hall. The story takes place in a London dance emporium, frequented by the local working girls. Natasha Parry stars as Eve, whose marriage to Phil (Donald Houston) is imperiled Read More

Diamond City

Actors: David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Niall MacGinnis, Andrew Crawford

Synopsis: Diamond City is a British "western", set not in Australia as was often the case but in the wilds of South Africa. David Farrar is a lawkeeper sworn to lawkeep in the diamond mines. The poachers thereabouts try their luck at circumventing Farrar, but he's too fast for them. The final shootout isn't Read More

A Boy, a Girl and A Bike

Actors: John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Patrick Holt, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The boy is Sam Walters (Patrick Holt). The girl is Susie Bates (future Avengers star Honor Blackman). The bike is one of several used by a British cycling club. Boy and girl have fun peddling about the countryside until the girl's pretty head is turned by David Howarth (John McCallum), a wealthy Read More

It's Not Cricket

Synopsis: In this comedy, two soldiers find themselves dishonorably discharged after they accidently allow a Nazi prisoner to escape. Later they open up a detective agency. They are constantly plagued by the Nazi who follows them on every case. In the climax, the trio plays a crazy cricket match using a Read More

Vote for Huggett

Synopsis: In this comedy, the Huggett family patriarch decides to run for public office. His entire platform is built upon a promise to construct a war memorial. Unfortunately, he wants to build it on a parcel of his wife's land. She doesn't want anything there so her niece fakes her signature and the land Read More

My Sister and I

Actors: Hazel Court, Helen Goss, Patrick Holt, Sally Ann Howes

Synopsis: There's dirty work backstage in the British melodrama My Sister and I. Sally Ann Howes plays Robina Adams, an aspiring actress who lands a job at the provincial repertory company managed by Miss Havisham-like Mrs. Camelot (Martita Hunt). Still carrying a torch for her late husband, Mrs. Camelot Read More

The Calendar

Actors: Greta Gynt, John McCallum, Sonia Holm, Leslie Dwyer, Charles Victor

Synopsis: The leaves of the Calendar begin to fall rapidly when avaricious Wenda (Greta Gynt) jilts newly-impoverished horse owner Garry (John McCallum). Wenda then weds Willie (Raymond Lovell), the brother of Garry's former horse-trainer Molly (Sonia Holm). While drowning his sorrows in liquor, Garry joins Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by Read More

Here Come the Huggetts

Actors: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark

Synopsis: The fictional Hugget Family makes the first of three film appearances in this domestic comedy from Great Britain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Good Time Girl

Actors: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off unpromisingly, as juvenile justice official Flora Robson tries to keep a would-be female felon on the straight-and-narrow, telling the cautionary tale of Gwen Rawlings (Jean Read More

Penny and the Pownall Case

Holiday Camp

Actors: John Blythe, Esma Cannon, Hazel Court, Jimmy Hanley, Dennis Harkin

Synopsis: Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for a successful B-movie series. The film takes place at a British summer resort, where various character types interact. A murderer on the loose invades the camp, but the Read More

Dancing with Crime

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Barry Barnes, Sheila Sim, John Warwick

Synopsis: Hollywood films were linking up dance halls with criminal activities long before the British-made Dancing with Crime, which does not mean that this 1949 melodrama is any less worthwhile. Adding a contemporary twist, the criminals operating within the shilling-a-dance joint are black marketeers Read More

Code of Scotland Yard

Actors: Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith, Manning Whiley

Synopsis: Originally released in 1945 as Shop at Sly Corner, Code of Scotland Yard is an effective British imitation of the Hollywood film noir genre. Oscar Homolka plays a seemingly benign antique dealer who maintains a comfortable lifestyle by fencing stolen goods. Homolka's daughter (Muriel Pavlow), an Read More