Eric PohlmannFilmography

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The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

Tiffany Jones

Synopsis: Secret agent Tiffany Jones masquerades as a model when not out saving the world in this espionage/sex farce. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Horsemen

Actors: Aziz Resh, Sy Temple, Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Peter Jeffrey

Synopsis: Director John Frankenheimer, extrapolating from his earlier films The Gypsy Moths and Grand Prix, examines machismo and how men test themselves to the limits of endurance in The Horsemen. The film takes place in modern day Afghanistan. Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the Read More

Foreign Exchange

Synopsis: In this espionage film, an American detective becomes part of a British spy organization's attempt to free a Russian expatriate hidden away in England. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Inspector Clouseau

Actors: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid

Synopsis: The famously inept but accidentally brilliant Inspector Clouseau returns to help foil a group of daring robbers in this comedy, the only film in the long-running series not to feature Peter Sellers as the bumbling inspector. Instead, the talented Alan Arkin assumes the role, blundering his way Read More

The Mini-Affair

Synopsis: In this youthful musical adventure, three lonesome, lovestruck teens decide to kidnap the men they idolize. One is the Minister of Pop Culture, another is a handsome singer, the third is a disc jockey. Naturally the three victims are unhappy with their circumstance, but the girls are nice and Read More

Mit Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt

Actors: Werner Enke, Birke Bruck, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: This military satire finds a young man aspiring to become a parachute jumper in the German Army. When a medical check-up reveals a lung disorder, the man is hospitalized in a sanatorium. He engages in an affair with the pretty young wife of an army official in the hope that she can convince her Read More

Where the Spies Are

Actors: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, Cyril Cusack, John Le Mesurier, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: Dr. Love (David Niven) is a suave British secret agent sent to Lebanon to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington (Nigel Davenport) by an enemy agent in this spy spoof. With the help of the beautiful Vikki (Francoise Dorlac), Love uncovers a plot by Russian agents to kill a Middle Read More

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the Read More

Joey Boy

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

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he is the model of upstanding citizenship and loyalty to an oppressive British government. But he is also a notorious smuggler who uses his ill-gotten gains to benefit his Read More

Night Train to Paris

Synopsis: A retired spy agrees to help his former boss by helping another agent get some tapes containing defense information to Paris. When his boss is killed, he must stay ahead of the rival agents, eventually learning that the female agent he is helping is one of them. He is able to defeat her and get Read More

Carry on Spying

Actors: Kenny Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: Britain's long-running (some would say interminable) series of "Carry On" comedies managed to satirize virtually every film genre ever conceived over three decades. Since espionage dramas were hot in 1964, it was inevitable that the unwary world would be treated to Carry on Spying. The "maguffin" Read More

The Sicilians

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a Mafioso decides to go straight and turn states evidence against the mob. The mob retaliates by kidnapping the squealer's son. To get him back, the ex-gangster enlists the aid of a dancer, a worker for the American embassy, and Scotland Yard. At the end of it all, the boy is Read More

Shadow of Fear

Synopsis: In this espionage thriller, an agent on his way back to London from Baghdad must deliver an important coded message to an operative. Though ordinarily a routine assignment, the agent finds his life jeopardized when word that he has a photographic memory leaks out. Suddenly he finds himself pursued Read More

Agent 8 3/4

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley, Leo McKern, Roger Delgado

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author, Bogarde is sent to Czechoslovakia by the British government as an unofficial "goodwill ambassador" to an industrial firm. It soon dawns upon him that his real assignment is to Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin, Janis Paige, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: Follow the Boys attempts to recapture the box-office magic of 1960's Where the Boys Are; sometimes it succeeds. Returning from the earlier film are Connie Francis and Paula Prentiss, here cast as Bonnie Pulaski and Toni Denham, tourists on the French Riviera. Together with their Gallic friend Read More

Cairo

Actors: George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, Eric Pohlmann, Ahmed Mazhar

Synopsis: Following the same storyline as the more successful Asphalt Jungle but set in Cairo, this crime caper about a jewel heist is directed by Wolf Rilla. The focus of attention is Tutankhamen's jewels on display in the Cairo National Museum -- quite a topical topic since the treasures from King Tut's Read More

55 Days at Peking

Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland

Synopsis: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as 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

The Devil's Agent

Synopsis: The Devil's Agent is Peter Van Eyck in this economical espionager. A Viennese wine merchant, Van Eyck becomes the unwilling dupe for the Russians. In retaliation, he offers to become a double agent for the United States. The better-than-average cast includes Macdonald Carey, Christopher Lee Read More

Village of Daughters

Actors: Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, Gregoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: When a traveling salesman arrives to hawk his wares in an economically depressed Italian village, the last thing he expects is to be assailed by the most beautiful single girls in town, but that is exactly what happens. The reason for it stems from the fact that all but one of the town's eligible Read More

Avengers: A Chorus of Frogs

Synopsis: Vacationing in Greece, Steed is asked to investigate the death of a deep-sea diver, a member of an elite corps known as the Frogs. Suspecting that the victim was murdered by one of the passengers on a Mediterranean ocean liner, Steed secretes himself aboard the vessel, where his off-and-on partner Read More

The Singer Not the Song

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylène Demongeot, Laurence Naismith, Eric Pohlmann, John Bentley

Synopsis: This unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A Night to Remember (1958) director Roy Baker. Father Keogh (John Mills) is a Catholic priest who arrives in the remote Mexican village of Quantano to build a congregation, unaware that the town is terrorized by Read More

Carry on Regardless

Actors: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenny Williams

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take on employment agencies in this labored edition to the long-running comedy series. Sidney James is Bert Handy, who starts an employment agency by the name of "Helping Hands, Ltd." Bert proceeds to hire a bunch of loonies to do a collection of screwball jobs employers want Read More

Passport to China

Synopsis: In this drama, an ex-WW II pilot leads a quiet life in Hong Kong when suddenly the US government asks him to do some spying. Reluctantly he accepts the request and begins helping a Chinese woman find her missing son, also a pilot. The American, assisted by a Russian pal, finds the boy, but then Read More

Das Raetsel der roten Orchidee

Actors: Fritz Rasp, Wolfgang Buttner

Synopsis: Even while a series of British second features based on the works of Edgar Wallace was flourishing in the 1960s, Germany was grinding out its own Wallace series. Secret of the Red Orchid top-bills British actor Christopher Lee in a story of a joint effort between the FBI and Scotland Yard. The Read More

The Kitchen

Actors: Mary Yeomans, Carl Möhner, Eric Pohlmann, Brian Phelan

Synopsis: This microcosmic comedy/drama is set in the kitchen of a swank London restaurant. The kitchen's unofficial father-figure is chef Carl Mohner, who gleefully advises his fellow workers to enjoy life and to seek their heart's desires. But no one is around to boost Mohner's morale when his planned Read More

The Man Who Couldn't Walk

Actors: Eric Pohlmann, Peter Reynolds, Pat Clavin, Reed de Rouen, Bernadette Milnes

Synopsis: In this British crime thriller, a wheelchair bound crook leads a ring of jewel thieves. To do his latest heist, he hires an ace safecracker to do his stuff during an international exposition. He almost succeeds until the police appear, and kill one of the henchmen. The safecracker is then captured Read More

Life Is a Circus

Actors: Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold, Charlie Naughton

Synopsis: This zany film marks the screen debut of Britain's popular comedy troupe, The Crazy Gang. The story begins as the gang are busy sweeping up for the almost bankrupt circus they work for. The owner of a rival carnival endeavors to put them out of business for good. The Crazies manage to foil his Read More

No Kidding

Actors: Geraldine McEwan, Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This is one of the rare comedies by director Gerald Thomas that does not have the words "Carry On...." in the title, and that is the first indication that the wacky, hare-brained, ribald core of the "Carry On" series is missing here. The premise is that a young couple, David and Catherine Robinson Read More

Surprise Package

Actors: Yul Brynner, Bill Nagy, Mitzi Gaynor, Barry Foster

Synopsis: This is an unimpressive spy-comedy from director Stanley Donen who inserts his specialty, a small song-and-dance number, into the odd proceedings. Gangster Nico March (Yul Brynner) has been ordered out of the United States because of his unsavory activities and back to the Greek island from whence Read More

Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

Sands of the Desert

Actors: Charlie Drake, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch, Raymond Huntley, Peter Illing

Synopsis: In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop Read More

Snowball

Synopsis: A little boy learns the dangers of chronic lying the hard way in this thriller. He is only eleven when he tells a story that causes a neighbor, an ex-POW with amnesia, to die. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The House of the Seven Hawks

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

John Paul Jones

Actors: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, MacDonald Carey

Synopsis: Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, and he volunteers to lead the colonists' ragtag fleet Read More

Expresso Bongo

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard, Meier Tzelniker

Synopsis: In this witty music-business satire, Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) is a talent agent down on his luck who thinks his tide may have turned when he spots a teenage rock & roll fan wailing away in a coffeehouse. Dubbing him "Bongo Herbert" (Cliff Richard, in a role the now knighted and born-again Read More

Alive and Kicking

Actors: Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey

Synopsis: Dame Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison and Estelle Winwood, collectively representing some 200 years of British theatrical history, are top-billed in this feathery bit of whimsy. The starring trio plays three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence. They Read More

The Invisible Man: Crisis in the Desert

Synopsis: While still seeking a method to reverse his invisiblity, Peter Brady takes on a top-secret mission for the British government. Col. Warren (Eric Pohlman) asks Peter to parachute (presumably naked!) into a hostile Middle Eastern country, there to rescue intelligence agent Jack Howard (Howard Pays) Read More

I Accuse!

Actors: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors, Leo Genn, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also directed) stars as French Army captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is chosen as the fall guy for a major military scandal for no other discernable reason than his Jewishness. Wrongly Read More

Mark of the Phoenix

Synopsis: This thriller centers on the possession of a valuable new metal that is able to withstand nuclear radiation. It had been invented by a Belgian metallurgist, but he was murdered by an international ring of thieves who make some of the valuable alloy into a cigarette case that is placed on an Read More

The Man Inside

Actors: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Nigel Patrick, Anthony Newley, Bonar Colleano, Sean Kelly

Synopsis: A stellar cast redeems the tawdry European-filmed melodrama 3DThe Man Inside3D. Nigel Patrick plays Sam Carter, a mild-mannered British clerk who spends half his life fantasizing about stealing a valuable diamond. When he is finally able to pull off this heist, it is at the cost of another Read More

Three Crooked Men

Synopsis: In this crime drama, three criminals break into a man's store so they can get into the bank next door. The trouble really begins when the store owner suddenly shows up. The robbers take him hostage. A man walks past, sees trouble, and tries to assist. Unfortunately, he too is captured. Read More

Further Up the Creek!

Actors: David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role of Lt. Fairweather, skipper of the not-so-good ship Aristotle. This time, however, Fairweather's enterprisingly larcenous bos'un is played not by Peter Sellers but by Read More

The Duke Wore Jeans

Actors: Tommy Steele, June Laverick, Michael Medwin, Alan Wheatley, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: In anticipation of Elvis Presley's Kissin' Cousins, British rock-and-roll idol Tommy Steele plays a dual role in The Duke Wore Jeans. Tony (Steele) is a young nobleman who wants to wriggle out of an arranged marriage-especially since he's already taken a bride in secret. Upon meeting a carefree Read More

Elephant Gun

Actors: Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Anna Gaylor, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a young woman spends all her time caring for her ailing mother. The one bright spot in her life is her African pen pal. Her mother finally dies, and the woman immediately sets off for Africa to meet the pen pal. There she finds that he is too busy chasing elephants to Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Marie Versini, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke, the writer of such fifties British comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob and Passport to Pimlico, dips his pen into a more stately inkwell in this stilted adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dirk Bogarde takes the lead role of worn-down Read More

Pickup Alley

Actors: Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano, Andre Morell

Synopsis: Victor Mature stars in this European-based crime thriller. Mature is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug smuggling operation, following his quarry all over the Continent (with accompanying pretty pictures of Portugal, Spain, France etc.) The criminal mastermind (Trevor Howard) is something of a Read More

The Counterfeit Plan

Actors: Zachary Scott, Peggie Castle, Mervyn Johns, Sydney Tafler, Lee Patterson

Synopsis: Filmed in England, The Counterfeit Plan was distributed in the US by Warner Bros. Zachary Scott is right in his element as Max, a sociopathic killer who sets up a counterfeiting ring in the home of country squire Louie (Mervyn Johns). Max forces Louie to participate in his racket by threatening to Read More

The High Terrace

Actors: Dale Robertson, Lois Maxwell, Derek Bond, Eric Pohlmann, Mary Laura Wood

Synopsis: In this British mystery, set backstage at a theater, a beautiful actress is starring in a successful playwright's newest hit. Unbeknownst to her, the writer is in love with her. Because he is jealous of all those who might steal her away, he refuses to allow her to break her contract and work in Read More

Not Wanted on Voyage

Actors: Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Griffith Jones, Catherine Boyle, Fabia Drake

Synopsis: After years of faithful supporting service, British comic actor Ronald Shiner was finally rewarded with a few leading roles in the 1950s. In Not Wanted on Voyage, Shiner plays cockney ship's steward Higgins, who tends to the needs of the various passengers on a Tangiers-bound luxury liner. When a Read More

Across the Bridge

Actors: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: A Graham Greene novel was the basic source for the British psychological melodrama Across the Bridge. Rod Steiger plays Carl Schaffner, a prominent financier who has absconded with company funds. A genius at improvisation, he plans to elude the authorities by murdering Paul Scarff (Bill Nagy) and Read More

The Break in the Circle

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Marius Goring, Guy Middleton, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: Break in the Circle is one of several late-1950s British films given American distribution by 20th Century-Fox. Forrest Tucker heads the cast as American soldier of fortune Skip Morgan, who is hired by German millionaire Baron Keller (Marius Goring). The baron wants Skip to smuggle a Polish Read More

Fire Down Below

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom, Bernard Lee, Bonar Colleano

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum star as Tony and Felix, co-owners of a tramp-steamer service in the West Indies. Threatening their friendship is itinerant trollop Irena (Rita Hayworth). Tony seethes with jealousy as Irena gravitates towards Felix, leading to a heated confrontation. Felix retaliates Read More

All at Sea

Actors: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest aqueous movement makes him unbearably ill. The man's illustrious family history is witnessed from the Stone Age via flashback. To preserve his family's name and his own honor 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

Lust for Life

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs Read More

Gelignite Gang

Actors: Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne, Patrick Holt, Simone Silva

Synopsis: His career as a western star having recently come to an end in the US, Wayne Morris is the star of the British The Dynamiters. Morris plays an American insurance investigator, trying to get the goods on an elusive gang of London thieves. The crooks invariably wipe out all evidence by dynamiting Read More

Reach for the Sky

Actors: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who was involved in an accident which cost him both of his legs. Despite this, he became a WWII squadron commander and was a hero during the Battle of Britain. Shot down over Read More

The Constant Husband

Actors: Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway (Harrison) tries to reconstruct his past with the aid of psychiatrist Llewellyn (Cecil Parker). Our hero would have been better off had his memory remained lost: Llewellyn Read More

The Glass Tomb

Synopsis: A carnival freak show provides the setting for this murder mystery. The trouble begins when the "Starving Man" the world's longest survivor of a fast is found dead inside his glass cage. It is later learned that he was killed because he had witnessed the murder of an extortionist. ~ Sandra Read More

Quentin Durward

Actors: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in the title role, playing the son of an aging Scottish nobleman. He has been dispatched to propose to a high-born Frenchwoman (Kay Kendall) on his uncle's behalf, but one look Read More

A Prize of Gold

Actors: Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick, George Cole, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: A U.S. military officer is motivated by love and compassion to begin a life of crime in this action adventure story. Sgt. Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American Army officer who, while stationed in Berlin shortly after the end of WWII, falls in love with Maria (Mai Zetterling), a refugee Read More

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Actors: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young

Synopsis: In this tuneful, romantic sequel to the classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, two gorgeous brown-haired Broadway chorines head for the City of Light to escape their ardent, predatory fans and find true love after having many adventures. The story is paralleled by that of their mother and aunt who did Read More

Forbidden Cargo

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt

Synopsis: Nigel Patrick plays a suave but dead-serious British narcotics agent in this sporadically exciting crime melodrama. Patrick is determined that the drug traffic will not spread into his territory. He finds an unexpected ally in Joyce Grenfell, an inveterate bird-watcher. Ms. Grenfell aids Patrick Read More

Monsieur Ripois

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Germaine Montero, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Rene Clement's Monsieur Ripois was released in English-speaking countries as The Knave of Hearts and Lovers, Happy Lovers. Relying heavily on voiceover narration and subjective camerawork, the film has Gerard Phillipe in the title role. Believing himself to be love with his wife's best friend Read More

Terror Street

Actors: Dan Duryea, Ann Gudrun, John Chandos

Synopsis: Steve Fisher, best known for I Wake Up Screaming, wrote the story and screenplay for the British melodrama Terror Street. Dan Duryea plays Bill Rogers, an American jet pilot, who comes to England to find out why he hasn't heard from his wife lately. Upon his arrival, he learns that his wife has Read More

The Flame and the Flesh

Actors: Lana Turner, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Carlos Thompson, Bonar Colleano, Charles Goldner

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Europe, Flame and the Flesh is nothing more nor less than a vehicle for the glamorous Lana Turner. The plot finds Madeline (Ms. Turner) stranded in Italy with nary a lire to her name. But this doesn't bother her, because she's always depended upon the kindness of Read More

They Who Dare

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, Gérard Oury, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: Filmed in England, They Who Dare is undeservedly the least-known of director Lewis Milestone's sound films. Set in the Aegean sea during World War II, the film recounts the exploits of Britain's Special Boat Squadron. Sent on life-or-death commando missions, the squadron (six English, four Greek) Read More

Blood Orange

Synopsis: Blood Orange is an early effort from the British "shock shop" of Hammer Films. Hollywood's Tom Conway stars as a former FBI agent, living in contented retirement in London. Conway's quietude is interrupted when gorgeous model Delphi Lawrence is murdered. Ere the "The End" sign looms into view, Conway Read More

The Belles of St. Trinian's

Actors: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis: Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. The girls of St. Trinian's aim their deviltry at a gang of crooks who plan to steal a famous race horse. Alastair Sim wraps up the proceedings with Read More

Rob Roy

Actors: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James L. Robertson, Michael Gough, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: The rousing adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott was adapted for this swashbuckler. Richard Todd stars as Robert Roy MacGregor, a clan leader in 18th century Scotland attempting to lead his fellow countrymen in a rebellion against the heavy-handed rule of England's King George I. When the king Read More

Mogambo

Actors: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner Read More

Penny Princess

Actors: Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde, Edwin Styles, Reginald Beckwith, Kynaston Reeves

Synopsis: Actress Yolande Donlon and her producer-director husband Val Guest were the prime movers of the 1952 comedy Penny Princess. Donlon plays Lindy Smith, a Manhattan shopgirl who inherits a mythical European kingdom. Upon learning that the country is flat broke, Lindy applies her Yankee ingenuity Read More

Three Stops to Murder

Synopsis: This curiously little-known British mystery stars Tom Conway as an American FBI agent. Conway is sent to England to investigate the death of a model. It just might be that enemy agents are involved, and our hero wants to find out as much as possible before putting his own life on the line. The Read More

Monsoon

Actors: Ursula Thiess, Diana Douglas, George Nader, Ellen Corby, Philip Stainton

Synopsis: Set in India, this romantic drama tells the melodramatic tale of a young couple who travel to a remote jungle village to announce their betrothal to the bride's parents. Unfortunately, while there, the groom becomes attracted to his love's free-spirited sister who lives in the jungle causing the Read More

The Paris Express

Actors: Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Michael Nightingale, Marius Goring, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the source for the Anglo-American The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. Claude Rains stars as Kees Popinga, chief clerk for a Dutch trading company. Scrupulously honest, Popinga goes off the deep end when he discovers that his employer has been cooking the books to support Read More

The Assassin

Actors: Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson, George Coulouris, Margot Grahame

Synopsis: British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime partisan. Once he arrives, the detective finds himself the quarry of every Venetian cop in sight. Todd soon learns that he's been fingered as a murderer--and that it's just possible he's been framed by Read More

Hundred Hour Hunt

Actors: Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Sidney James, Freddie Mills

Synopsis: The Hundred Hour Hunt was originally released in Britain as Emergency, then as Emergency Call. A woman lies in a hospital near death. She needs a transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare. It's up to Inspector Lane (Jack Warner) to track down the three potential donors. The rest of the Read More

A Woman's Angle

His Excellency

Actors: Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Susan Stephen, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: In this British drama a veteran laborer rises above the turmoil of unionization to become the governor of Artista, an industrial island that finds itself further embroiled in a terrible fight over low pay and terrible working conditions. A strike ensues, but the new governor remembers what it Read More

The Gambler and the Lady

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an avaricious, successful gambler is not content with fabulous wealth and aspires to become a member of the British nobility after he falls in love with one of the country's more prominent blue-blooded women. Unfortunately, to have her, he must mend his ways. He then dumps his Read More

Moulin Rouge

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district Read More

There is Another Sun

Actors: Susan Shaw, Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey, Hermione Baddeley, Leslie Dwyer

Synopsis: Star-in-the-making Laurence Harvey receives third billing in the British There is Another Sun. Set in the rarefied world of fairground auto racing, the film stars Susan Shaw as Lillian, a stranded carny performer who attaches herself to a pair of young men. One of them, played by Maxwell Reed, is Read More

Traveller's Joy

Actors: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Yolande Donlan, Maurice Denham, Colin Gordon

Synopsis: Real-life Mr. and Mrs. John McCallum and Googie Withers star in Travellers Joy. McCallum and Withers are cast as Reggie and Bumble Pelham, a divorced couple living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm. Before they can leave for their native England, Reggie and Bumble must first pay their hotel bill. To 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

Hell Is Sold Out

Synopsis: In this farce, an enigmatic writer begins using the pen-name Lom, a popular writer believed dead. The dead writer "returns" to peruse his newest book, which he didn't write. He soon meets the woman who is using his name and after several engaging misdirections, the two fall in love and marry. Read More

The Clouded Yellow

Actors: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More, Maxwell Reed

Synopsis: The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war, Sommers takes a low-profile job cataloguing butterfly specimens. While thus employed, he make the acquaintance of Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons), a curious young lady who seems to Read More

Highly Dangerous

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Britain's Margaret Lockwood is teamed with Hollywood's Dane Clark in Highly Dangerous. Set in a mythical Iron Curtain country, the film casts Lockwood as an entomologist who hopes to stop a planned volley of bacteriological warfare. Facing danger at every turn, our heroine is rescued time and Read More

Chance of a Lifetime

Actors: Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Geoffrey Keen, Julien Mitchell

Synopsis: Filmed on location in a British industrial town, Chance of a Lifetime is a trenchantly amusing satire of labor-management relations. When a group of angry workers protest their wage and working conditions at a plough factory, they are permitted to take over the operation themselves. It isn't long Read More

Blackout

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a blind man's sight is restored. Soon afterward he learns that his girl friend's dead brother is very much alive and is unfortunately leading a smuggling ring. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Third Man

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

The Great Manhunt

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glynis Johns, Olga Lowe, Jack Hawkins

Synopsis: It isn't surprising that The Great Manhunt invokes fond memories of Alfred Hitchcock; the film was scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, the two former Hitchcock collaborators responsible for the screenplay of The Master's The Lady Vanishes (38). Gilliat also directed this fast-paced Read More

Children of Chance

Actors: Patricia Medina

Synopsis: In this drama, set at the end of WW II, two Italian prostitutes ply their trade with American soldiers. When the war ends, they go back home to spend their money which is used by a local priest to create a home for illegitimate war children. Director Luigi Zampa shot this film at the same time as Read More

Portrait from Life

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Patrick Holt, Herbert Lom, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German professor sees a portrait in an art gallery which looks exactly like his daughter, who is assumed to have died in the war. The girl (Mai Zetterling) has been living as an amnesiac Read More