Gordon JacksonFilmography

The Lady and the Highwayman

Actors: Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

James Clavell's Noble House

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Tia Carrere

The Whistle Blower

Actors: Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Felicity Dean, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Superpatriotic Briton Michael Caine learns from his son Nigel Havers, a Russian translator with Government Communications Headquarters, that the CIA might have ordered the deaths of some GCH employees to avoid any security leaks. When Havers mentions that he's thinking about blowing the whistle on Read More

Gunpower

Shaka Zulu

Synopsis: Originally aired as a British mini-series, Shaka Zulu follows the rise of Shaka (Henry Cele) to the king of the Zulus during the early 19th century when the British were beginning to gain control of Africa. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

My Brother Tom

Synopsis: Set during WWII, this Australian miniseries explores the effects of the conflict on the sleepy burg of St. Helens and its inhabitants, who are busy enough sorting out their religious differences. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

Professionals, Part 2

Gunpowder

Actors: David Gilliam, Martin Potter, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Schaeffer, David Miller

Synopsis: Sir Anthony Phelps (Gordon Jackson) calls on agents Gunn (David Gilliam) and Powder (Martin Potter) in this low-budget James Bond spy film. The duo sets out to stop the efforts of an evil scientist hell-bent on taking over the world by liquefying the gold reserves. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shooting Party

Actors: Edward Fox, Cheryl Campbell, James Mason, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud

Synopsis: This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British nobleman James Mason invites an assorted group of acquaintances for a weekend shooting party on his huge estate. Among the participants are longtime rivals Edward Fox and Rupert Frazer Read More

The Masks of Death

Actors: Peter Cushing, John Mills, Ray Milland, Anne Baxter, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: Twenty-seven years after Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Peter Cushing makes a belated return to the role of Sherlock Holmes in the made-for-television Masks of Death. Befitting his age, Cushing plays Holmes in retirement, content to play his violin and look after his bees. He is dragged back Read More

A Town Like Alice

Synopsis: A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute's novel of the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, was first filmed as a theatrical feature in 1956. The six-part British TV adaptation of 1980, first shown in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre beginning October 4, 1981, is more inclusive and sweeping Read More

The Last Giraffe

Synopsis: The Last Giraffe was adapted by Sherman Yellin from the book Raising Daisy Rothschild by Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville. Put two and two together, and you'll figure out from the above information that the giraffe of the title and Daisy Rothschild are one in the same. Filmed in Kenya, the Read More

The Medusa Touch

Actors: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered Read More

Golden Rendezvous

Actors: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith, John Vernon

Synopsis: Richard Harris dodges bullets from stem to stern in this middling thriller, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. The plot concerns high-sea hijinks aboard the Caribbean Star, a combination cargo ship and floating casino. In the midst of the high rollers and spinning roulette wheels appears Luis Read More

Spectre

Actors: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt

Synopsis: In this pilot for a TV series. Robert Culp stars as a top criminologist and dabbler in the occult. Gig Young is a drunken doctor who is "magically" cured of his alcoholism by Culp's housekeeper. Culp and Young decide to team up as the Holmes and Watson of the exorcist set. Their first assignment Read More

Professionals

Synopsis: In this British actioner, the professional thieves find that they have become bored with smuggling cocaine. For a new challenge, they decide to steal some plutonium. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Russian Roulette

Actors: George Segal, Cristina Raines, Bo Brundin, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: The picturesque streets of Vancouver, British Columbia provide the setting for this thriller that is based on Ardies' novel Kosygin Is Coming. The story centers on a Mountie who finds himself entangled in a KGB conspiracy to kill the renegade Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin during his Canadian Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 05

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years 1910 to 1930, bringing the saga of the Bellamy household to a close. So much time has to be dealt with this season that the producers expanded the episode output from 13 to 16 hour-long episodes. And because virtually every one of Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 04

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fourth season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place during the war years of 1914 through 1918, a time of great anxiety and upheaval for England in general and the Bellamy household at 165 Eaton Place in particular. The season begins as Hazel Bellamy (Meg Wynn Owen), wife Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 03

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The third season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs sweeps past the Edwardian era to cover the pre-war years between 1912 and 1914. Because actress Rachel Gurney had already announced her intention to leave the series, the producers decided to provide the character of Lady Marjorie Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 02

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Rachel Gurney, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Season One of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs covered the years 1903 to 1909, logic dictates that the second season should have moved on to the second decade of the 20th century. However, the produced decided for the time being to keep the action concentrated in the Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 01

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Rachel Gurney, David Langton, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place from November 1903 through June 1909, an era popularly known as "Edwardian" in honor of King Edward VII. Fans of the series will notice that the familiar characters are still in the developmental process during the first Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Claire Nielson, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas

Synopsis: Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing instead to adhere to the story as written. Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David Read More

Madame Sin

Actors: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: The first appearance of Bette Davis in a made-for-television film has an evil mastermind (Davis) plotting against a CIA agent (Robert Wagner) for control of a deadly submarine. Aired in 1971, Madame Sin was the most expensive TV movie of the time. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Scrooge

Actors: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, Scrooge features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse songs, including the bona fide hit "Thank You Read More

On the Run

Synopsis: In this children's film, set in London, slum kids help an African prince keep away from evil kidnappers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam

Synopsis: Perhaps the reason there are so many filmed versions of Hamlet is that in each decade every great Shakespeareian actor, and almost any movie actor with a yen to prove his versatility wants to tilt at this particular thespian windmill. Aside from the much more difficult King Lear, it is also one of Read More

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Actors: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her delicately textured portrayal of an eccentric teacher at an exclusive Scottish girl's school. Miss Jean exhorts her "gels" to follow their hearts and never Read More

Run Wild, Run Free

Actors: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Miles, Mark Lester, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Child actor Mark Lester proved that his sudden ascension to stardom in Oliver wasn't a fluke with Run Wild, Run Free. Lester plays a psychosomatically mute young Dartmoor boy, who avoids all human contact whenever possible. He is fascinated by nature, but cannot convey this love to his 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

The Night of the Generals

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray

Synopsis: Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery set during World War II. Grau's only clue is that the murderer was wearing the uniform of a Nazi general. The three suspects include Gabler (Charles Gray), who fears his Read More

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Actors: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of Donegal and his son Red Hugh, his successor. This lush and lively Disney adventure chronicles the young man's tumultuous ascension to the throne and his attempts to unite the Read More

Cast a Giant Shadow

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner

Synopsis: Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American Army officer Colonel David Marcus is recruited by the yet-to-exist Israel to help form an army. Marcus is conflicted because of his sudden appreciation for his Jewish heritage. 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

Avengers: Castle De'ath

Synopsis: Steed and Emma are put on the case when the body of an agent -- four inches taller than he was in life -- is discovered. Their investigation leads to Castle De'ath, a formidable (and, reportedly, haunted) Scottish castle. While Emma poses as a woman determined to transform the castle into a Read More

The Ipcress File

Actors: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Michael Caine made his first appearance as novelist Len Deighton's bespectacled British-spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File. Palmer has no real love of espionage, but he doesn't really know any other life. With studied insolence, he takes on the case of locating missing doctor Radcliffe (Aubrey Richards Read More

Daylight Robbery

Synopsis: In this children's movie, four kids are inadvertently locked in a department store over a weekend. There they somehow catch a gang of robbers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Escape

Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, James Coburn

Synopsis: The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison Read More

The Long Ships

Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Beba Loncar, Oscar Homolka

Synopsis: In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but he adds enough incorrect details to throw them Read More

Mutiny on the Bounty

Actors: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic captain. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) boards the ship in Portsmouth, England, to embark on a mission to bring tropical breadfruit trees to Jamaica. Fletcher Christian Read More

Two Wives at One Wedding

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a prominent doctor marries a wealthy young woman. Their happiness is marred when a French woman begins blackmailing him with her claims that they are still married. Her actions cause an investigation and it is revealed that he'd been involved in the underground. As a result Read More

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog

Actors: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Kay Walsh, Andrew Cruickshank

Synopsis: Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role. A true story, set in Edinburgh around 1875, the Disney version stars Alex McKenzie as the shepherd Old Jock, the owner of a loyal Read More

The Price of Silence

Synopsis: When an ex-con changes his name and tries to make a new start, everything seems to conspire against him in his efforts. First of all, he is trying to fend of the attentions of his boss' wife. Then, to make things worse, an ex-cellmate shows up and blackmails him by threatening to tell about his 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

Cone of Silence

Actors: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders

Synopsis: Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet. Although he passes a battery of tests, pilot error is the determined cause of the accident. Sir Hobbes (George Sanders) is the Queen's council whose relentless prosecution helps Read More

Tunes of Glory

Actors: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah York

Synopsis: Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair, a man who temporarily takes over command of a regiment until his replacement, Col. Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives. Sinclair Read More

Blind Date

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, Robert Flemyng, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty Dutch artist, Jan Van Rooyen (Hardy Kruger), caught in an upscale cottage where a woman lies murdered. Hard-nosed, irritable Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) is certain Van Read More

The Navy Lark

Actors: Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips, Elvi Hale, Nicholas Phipps

Synopsis: Director Gordon Parry's last two films were the 1959 Friends and Neighbors and this so-so, slapstick comedy about a zany naval base on an island just off the southern coast of Britain. Not having a whole lot to do, the klutzy commander (Cecil Parker), a womanizing second officer (Leslie Phillips) Read More

The Bridal Path

Actors: Bill Travers, Alex Mackenzie, Eric Woodburn, Jack Lambert, John Rae

Synopsis: The Bridal Path is standard comedy fare about a young man, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers) sent out from his island home to go bride-hunting. The introverted, taciturn Ewan is reaching marriageable age just when the island's elders come up with a new decree. They have decided that there is too much Read More

Yesterday's Enemy

Actors: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley

Synopsis: The scene is Burma during World War II. A small British brigade led by Stanley Baker comes upon a Burmese village controlled by the Japanese. The brigade wipes out the enemy, whereupon Baker discovers that the late Japanese commandant has a coded map secreted on his person. When a Burmese prisoner Read More

Devil's Bait

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama a baker accidentally whips up a batch of bad bread and must somehow find it before people begin to die. He enlists the aid of a police sergeant and together they begin their desperate search. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Blind Spot

Synopsis: British producers Robert Baker and Monty S. Berman, the team later responsible for the classic TV series The Saint, assembled the 1953 crime melodrama Blind Spot. U.S. Army officer Dan Adams Robert MacKenzie, blinded during the war, is framed on a diamond-smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight Read More

Flood Tide

Actors: George Nader, Cornell Borchers, Michael Ray, Judson Pratt, Joanna Moore

Synopsis: Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who dotes on his widowed mother Anne (Cornell Borchers) - but has a nasty, pathological penchant for lying. When a body washes up on the beach and a man is arrested, David tells Read More

Mad Little Island

Actors: Jean Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Catherine Lacey, Noel Purcell

Synopsis: The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit to movie screens in 1958's Rockets Galore--released in the U.S. as Mad Little Island. In the first film, the good people of Todday faced up to the appalling dilemma of a Read More

Let's Be Happy

Actors: Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin, Robert Flemyng, Zena Marshall, Helen Horton

Synopsis: Let's Be Happy is an updated remake of Jeannie (1941), one of the most likable British comedies of the 1940s. The premise is basically the same: A working girl inherits a fortune, goes on a fling, is rescued from a caddish seducer by a down-to-Earth salesman. In Jeannie, the girl uses her legacy Read More

Abandon Ship

Actors: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd, Moira Lister

Synopsis:
In this supenseful and provocative high-seas drama, the captain of a luxury liner is suddenly faced with life or death decisions when his ship sinks, leaving himself and a few survivors floating at sea in an overcrowded lifeboat that does not contain enough food, water and medical supplies to Read More

Violent Stranger

Synopsis: In this suspenseful, convoluted crime drama, the wife of a wrongly-condemned murderer begins looking for the real killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hell Drivers

Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company's Read More

The Black Ice

Synopsis: The 51-minute length of Black Ice imposes a tense tautness that would not have been possible in a film of any longer duration. Paul Carpenter stars as a trawler captain making his way through treacherously icy waters. His vessel becomes trapped in the ice, far beyond human help. With no contact to Read More

Man in the Shadow

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, Barbara Lawrence

Synopsis: Man in the Shadow is a better-than-usual Albert Zugsmith production starring Jeff Chandler as the newly appointed lawman in a corrupt southwestern town. A Mexican laborer has been murdered, a crime which powerful land baron Orson Welles wants the sheriff to ignore. Chandler bucks Welles' wishes Read More

Pacific Destiny

Actors: Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen, Felix Felton, Peter Bathurst, Clifford Buckton

Synopsis: This biopic chronicles the true experiences of a British government representative who is sent with his wife to wild, exotic Samoa. Their primary task is to somehow please the persnickety resident bureaucrat. Unfortunately, he is not easily pleased and the harder the representative tries, the Read More

Blonde Bait

Actors: Beverly Michaels, Jim Davis, Joan Rice, Richard Travis, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: Tired of the humdrum routine at a staid British woman's prison, brassy American chorine Angela Booth (Beverly Michaels) busts out. Scotland Yard decides to allow Angela to roam free, hoping that she'll lead them to her partner in crime, who unbeknownst to her is a notorious traitor and killer. Read More

The Baby and the Battleship

Actors: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Harold Siddons, Clifford Mollison, Lisa Gastoni

Synopsis: British sailors John Mills and Richard Attenborough would like to take Neopolitan lass Lisa Gastoni out on a date. But Gastoni can't leave the house unless her baby brother tags along. During a rowdy evening on the town, Mills is forced to sneak the infant on board his ship. When Gastoni and Attenborough Read More

Panic in the Parlour

Actors: Michael Caine, Peggy Mount, Cyril Smith, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: Sailor Beware was originally released in England as Panic in the Parlour. The panic begins when a sailor named Albert (Ronald Lewis) plans to get married to a gal named Shirley (Shirley Eaton). On the day of the ceremony, Albert gets cold feet when he discovers that Shirley's gorgonlike mother Read More

Windfall

Synopsis: In this comedy, a shop assistant finds a briefcase containing a large sum of money. His daughter's creepy boyfriend steals the case. He gets his just desserts when he discovers that the cash is counterfeit. The whole mess works out for the best when the resultant brouhaha brings in scores of new Read More

Passage Home

Synopsis: A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harbored in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew Read More

The Quatermass Xperiment

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean, David King-Wood, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a forceful, misanthropic American scientist, the Q-1 had three astronauts aboard when it left Earth, but only one of them, engineer Victor Caroon Read More

Murder Is News

Synopsis: A string of jewel thefts lead to murder as investigated by a free-lance reporter and his wife. (AKA Delavine Affair) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Delavine Affair

Synopsis: The Delavine Affair is a jewel robbery orchestrated by a particularly vicious criminal gang. Reporter Peter Reynolds (his character name is-no kidding-Rex Banner) makes it his mission in life to track down the crooks and round them up for the Law. The bad guys reciprocate by framing Reynolds for Read More

The Love Lottery

Actors: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Charles Victor

Synopsis: David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star who is the "prize" in a lottery dreamed up by his press agent. The lucky lady who "wins" Niven will be able to spend a week in his company. Sensing the silliness of the whole Read More

Meet Mr. Lucifer

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway plays Hollingsworth, an actor who is playing Lucifer in a stage production. While being hoisted through a trap door, Hollingsworth is knocked cold. While unconscious, he is Read More

Death Goes to School

Synopsis: In this suspenser, set upon the campus of a women's college, a strangler has come to call. Death ensues. The music instructor suspects that the killer is a member of the college. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Castle in the Air

Actors: David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Kelly, A.E. Matthews

Synopsis: Most of this hectic British comedy takes place in an ancient Scottish castle. The British National Coal Board, following a real-life policy established in the 1940s, wants to annex the castle as a group home for the local miners and their families. Wealthy, much-married American Mrs. Clodfelter Read More

Happy Go Lovely

Actors: David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Bobby Howes, Diane Hart

Synopsis: The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered throngs are aghast when unknown dancer Janet Jones (Vera-Ellen) steps daintily from a limousine owned by a Scottish millionaire. A few miles earlier, the girl had thumbed a ride Read More

The Lady with a Lamp

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gladys Young, Felix Aylmer, Julian D'Albie, Sybil Thorndike

Synopsis: British film-favorite Anna Neagle, having previously played such great historical personages as Queen Victoria and Edith Cavell, tackles the role of Florence Nightingale in Lady with the Lamp. Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, the film traces the indefatigable Nightingale's efforts to minister Read More

Bitter Springs

Actors: Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue, Charles "Bud" Tingwell

Synopsis: British comic actor Tommy Trinder and Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film Bitter Springs. The plot is propelled along by Rafferty, who intrudes on the sacred hunting grounds of an aborigine tribe. Though tempers flare, everyone eventually buries the hatchet. Read More

Eureka Stockade

Actors: Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Peter Finch, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Massacre Hill, the Australian Eureka Stockade was one of that country's biggest and most expensive postwar productions (it was nearly two years in the making!) Set during the 19th-century Australian gold rush, the film top-bills Chips Rafferty as boisterous prospector Peter Read More

Whisky Galore!

Actors: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, Bruce Seton, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all Scotsmen are lushes. The tiny Scots Island of Todday suffers from a wartime whisky shortage. Luck of luck, a ship full of the precious liquid is wrecked on a reef. The Read More

Stop Press Girl

Actors: Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass who has the power to stop all machinery around her for a period of 15 minutes. It must needs be that Sally falls in love with a newspaperman, thereby justifying the film's Read More

Floodtide

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert, Jimmy Logan

Synopsis: The all-purpose title Floodtide was trotted out once more for this 1949 British drama. Gordon Jackson plays a lowly shipyard worker who falls in love with Rona Anderson, his boss' daughter. For the girl's sake, Jackson keeps an eye out for opportunities to advance himself. Through determination Read More

Against the Wind

Actors: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, Paul Dupuis

Synopsis: Set in World War II times, this drama involves a highly trained bunch of British soldiers who must parachute into Nazi-held Belgium on a rescue and destroy mission. Documentary film footage is included in the early parts of the film as the trainees get prepared for the task ahead. Robert Beatty Read More

The Captive Heart

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, Rachel Thomas, Basil Radford

Synopsis: The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed the identity of a deceased British officer to avoid being executed by the Nazis. When captured and placed in the camp, the British prisoners suspect the still-incognito Redgrave Read More

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Actors: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers

Synopsis: The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper, looking for an easy way out of the relationship. Withers entices a chemist's son to act as accomplice in a tricky murder scheme. She is certain that no one will suspect that Read More

San Demetrio, London

Actors: Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is disabled at sea, and thus left at the mercy of marauding Axis U-boats. The courageous crew manages to keep the San Demetrio afloat and guide it out of harm's Read More

Nine Men

Synopsis: The nine men are an English sergeant (Jack Lambert) and his eight charges, stranded in a crumbling fort in the Libyan desert during the African campaign. Held down by the gunfire of Italian troops, the men must secure the fort for the Allies and keep from being killed or captured. With no budget Read More

Millions Like Us

Actors: Eric Portman, Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Joy Shelton, Basil Radford

Synopsis: Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions when she falls in love with an airman (Gordon Jackson Read More

The Foreman Went to France

Actors: Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans, Robert Morley, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a dangerous foray into occupied France to recover three machine parts that will be vital to the Allies. He is accompanied by a pair of tough British soldiers and an American girl. Read More