Everley Gregg Filmography

Deadly Record

Synopsis: Before Lee Patterson established himself as an American soap opera star, he made scores of minor-league British films. In Deadly Record, Patterson plays an aviator accused of killing his wife. The actual miscreant is obvious to the audience, but the dimwitted cops continue to persecute Our Hero. Read More

Bachelor of Hearts

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Jeremy Burnham, Miles Malleson, Peter Myers, Eric Barker

Synopsis: Bachelor of Hearts stars Hardy Kruger as Wolf, a German exchange student attending Cambridge University. Initially arousing the distrust and disdain of his classmates (WWII was, after all, only thirteen years in the past), the affable Wolf slowly wins them over. He also finds romance in the lovely Read More

Carry on Admiral

Actors: David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece, Eunice Gayson, A.E. Matthews

Synopsis: The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Riotous comic Read More

The Man Who Never Was

Actors: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd

Synopsis: The Man Who Never Was is the true story of how the Allies threw the Nazis off track in planning the invasion of Sicily. The British Royal Navy exhumes the corpse of a man who died of natural causes, arranging to make it appear as though the dead man was a special services operative carrying the Read More

Tears for Simon

Actors: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall, Anthony Oliver

Synopsis: An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are panic-stricken. Detective David Farrar tries to locate the child, but clues are scarce. At the last possible moment, Farrar rescues the infant from a grueling fate and collars the Read More

The Night of the Full Moon

Synopsis: American FBI agent Dermot Walsh has his hands full when his car is incapacitated in a remote British village. No sooner does Walsh hit the pavement than he's pursued by enemy spies. It seems that our hero is in possession of some valuable secret information, and the only way he'll give it up is Read More

The Detective

Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character created by novelist G.K. Chesterton. When Father Brown is entrusted with transporting a valuable religious artifact from London to Rome, he's understandably upset when it's 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

A Stolen Face

Actors: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, Andre Morell, Mary Mackenzie, John Wood

Synopsis: Brilliant plastic surgeon Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) loses the love of his life, concert pianist Alice Brent (Lizabeth Scott), to her manager, David (Andre Morell). As a balm to his wounded pride, Dr. Ritter Henreid makes over a hideously scarred female criminal into the spitting image of the 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

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

The Woman in Question

Actors: Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, Susan Shaw, John McCallum, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: The alternate title to the British The Woman in Question is Five Angles on Murder. That pretty much sums up the tenor of this investigatory drama, wherein an enigmatic fortune teller (Jean Kent) is murdered. The police track down the five most likely suspects and start asking questions. Each Read More

The Astonished Heart

Actors: Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Graham Payn, Joyce Carey

Synopsis: With his previous collaborator David Lean busy on other own projects, Noel Coward had to rely on director Terence Fisher to bring his The Astonished Heart to the screen. Fisher and his stars--Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, and Coward himself--vividly convey the playwright's brittle Read More

Stage Fright

Actors: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Todd, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre world. On the lam from the police, Richard Todd takes refuge in the home of his former girlfriend, RADA student Jane Wyman. Todd has been spotted fleeing the scene of a murder Read More

The Franchise Affair

Actors: Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Set in a quiet British village, Franchise Affair details the ramifications of a malicious lie. Schoolgirl Ketty Kane (Ann Stephens) hopes to cover up her own misbehavior by claiming that two local women, Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), have kidnapped and abused Read More

Marry Me

Actors: Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: The action in the British Marry Me! centers around a marriage bureau. Utilizing the "omnibus" approach made popular by such films as Quartet, director Terence Fisher relates the stories of four separate marriage-bound couples. The cast (including Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh Read More

The Huggetts Abroad

Synopsis: The Huggets Abroad is the last and most contrived of Britain's "Huggetts" film series. The titular family members, first introduced in the 1947 film Holiday Camp, are played by Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw and Petula Clark (the same). Mr. Huggett feels he's in a rut, so he quits his Read More

The Woman in the Hall

Actors: Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Edward Underdown

Synopsis: A mother provides a lousy example for her daughter in this gritty, realistic drama. The mother is a mistress of manipulating the sympathies of others for her own gain. Rather than working, she solicits the sympathy of others. Like her mother, the daughter is equally manipulative and ends up with a Read More

Great Expectations

Actors: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations Read More

I See a Dark Stranger

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Tom Macauley

Synopsis: I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre. Deborah Kerr is terrific as Irish colleen Bridie Quilty, raised from childhood to despise the British and everything they stand for. Bridie's anglophobia proves useful to Nazi spy Read More

Brief Encounter

Actors: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British Read More

The Demi-Paradise

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Leslie Henson

Synopsis: Demi-Paradise stars Laurence Olivier as a Russian inventor (accent and all). In Europe to promote his new propeller device, Olivier is put off by English customs and manners-or, rather, the lack of the latter. No one in 1939 England trusts a foreigner, least of all one of those shifty "Reds", but Read More

The Gentle Sex

Actors: Joan Gates, Joan Greenwood, Jean Gillie, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of the title--seven in all--are actually determined young British moderns who go into military service during World War II. In true "Army bomber crew" fashion, the film Read More

Uncensored

Actors: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Irene Handl, Frederick Culley, Peter Glenville

Synopsis: This WWII drama, based on a novel by Oscar E. Millard, takes place in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Andre Delange (Eric Portman) owns a nightclub but is connected with the resistance movement. He used to secretly publish an anti-Nazi paper before the German invasion. Now his underground comrades want to Read More

In Which We Serve

Actors: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey

Synopsis: Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness Coward's sober, no-nonsense direction (in collaboration with his co-director/editor, David Lean) and to watch his straightforward portrayal of navy Read More

Spies of the Air

Actors: Barry Barnes, Roger Livesey, Joan Marion, Basil Radford, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: The success of the British Q Planes spawned a brief cycle in airborne espionage pictures--at least until all British aircraft was impounded for actual combat use. The title Spies of the Air tells all: The central character is a test pilot who turns out to be in the employ of The Enemy. Since the Read More

Pygmalion

Actors: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland

Synopsis: Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland Read More

Blondes for Danger

Actors: Gordon Harker, Janet Johnson, Ivan Brandt, Percy Parsons

Synopsis: Gordon Harker stars as a goonish London cabbie who finds himself up to his brimmed cap in espionage. Harker innocently thwarts an assassination attempt on a Middle-Eastern potentate. The perpetrator is a demonic British oil executive who'll stop at nothing to corner the "black gold" market. The Read More

Thunder in the City

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose company sends him to England to learn how to tone down his act. There he meets some distant relatives, the aristocrats Sir Peter and Lady Challoner (Arthur Wontner and Annie Esmond Read More

The Scoundrel

Actors: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper, Hope Williams

Synopsis: This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a powerful publisher to break as many hearts as is humanly possible. When Coward does his usual hatchet job on poet Julie Haydon, she plants a curse on his head, praying that he'll Read More

The Ghost Goes West

Actors: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Everley Gregg, Elsa Lanchester, Ralph Bunker

Synopsis: Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred to his Florida estate where he plans to reconstruct the castle brick by brick. Martin is unaware that his new acquisition comes equipped with an 18th-century ghost, played Read More

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Actors: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg

Synopsis: Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII. Alexander Korda's British super-production also put the British cinema on the map, which, until this film, received precious little respect in the international film Read More