Honor BlackmanFilmography

To Walk With Lions

Actors: Richard Harris, John Michie, Ian Bannen, Kerry Fox, Hugh Quarshie

Synopsis: The story of George Adamson, whose work helped inspire the book and subsequent film Born Free, is continued in the fact-based drama To Walk With Lions. In Kenya in the late 1980's, Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) is a young man from London who has a job as a driver with a safari guide company. Read More

Tale of the Mummy

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Best known for his Highlander series, Russell Mulcahy pays homage to the Hammer films of the 1960s with this all-star recreation of the Mummy story. Centuries ago, a sadistic prince named Talos was buried and his tomb was infinitely cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. Read More

The Secret Garden

Synopsis: From Anchor Bay Entertainment comes the feature-length, animated version of the children's classic, The Secret Garden. The timeless tale chronicles the life of Mary Lennox, an orphan who, after being sent to live in a large, eerie Victorian house with her brooding uncle, discovers a magical secret Read More

The Upper Hand [TV Series]

Synopsis: The Upper Hand was the British version of the long-running American sitcom Who's the Boss? Taking over the Tony Danza role was Joe McGann as former football player Charlie Burrow. On his uppers, Charlie landed a job as housekeeper and "nanny" for businesswoman and single mom Caroline Wheatley Read More

Ingrid

Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all included. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Voice of the Heart

Synopsis: This drama, adapted from a best-seller by Barbara Taylor Bradford chronicles the convoluted love-lives of two rich women over 23 years. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 10

Actors: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Simon Slater, Hugh Beverton, Martin Weedon

Synopsis: In the tenth episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) presents videotaped evidence which he hopes will clear him of charges that he has violated the Laws of Time. The tape shows the Doctor and his companion, Mel (Bonnie Langford), on board the Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 9

Actors: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston, Honor Blackman, Yolande Palfrey

Synopsis: The season-long Doctor Who adventure "The Trial of a Time Lord" continued on November 1, 1986 with episode one of the story's third chapter, "Terror of the Vervoids" (a subtitle that did not appear onscreen). Still defending himself against charges of breaking the Laws of Time, the Doctor (Colin Baker Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 12

Actors: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Peppi Borza

Synopsis: In the 12th episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Valeyard (Michael Jayston), bent upon condemning the Doctor (Colin Baker) for violating the Laws of Time, argues that the Doctor's videotaped evidence does not correspond with the facts. But the Doctor argues that Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 11

Actors: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Honor Blackman, Hugh Beverton, Barbara Ward

Synopsis: In the 11th episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) presents videotaped evidence that he and his companion, Mel (Bonnie Langford), used the Laws of Time to rescue the passengers of the spaceliner Hyperion III from the Vervoids, a species of Read More

Minder on the Orient Express

Lace

Actors: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: A notorious, internationally known sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) attempts to track down her birth mother in this glitzy, deliciously trashy melodrama. The mother could be one of three women, all of whom have vowed to never reveal the secret truth behind the child's illegitimate birth. Based on the Read More

The First Olympics: Athens 1896

Synopsis: Five Emmy nominations went to the two-part TV drama The First Olympics: Athens 1896. The story begins in 1894, when Baron Pierre de Courbetin (Louis Jourdan) announces his intention to stage the first Olympic games of the Modern Era within two years in Athens. The baron heads to the US to recruit Read More

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Secret Adversary

Synopsis: In this drama set in London during the 1920s, two amateur detectives try to find an important document before the enemy does. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cat and the Canary

Actors: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey

Synopsis: Frank Willard's 1927 stage play The Cat and the Canary was filmed several times before this 1978 version saw the light of day. In the story, Annabelle West (Carol Lynley) is one of several potential heirs to a huge fortune. Brought to his foreboding mansion to learn who will benefit from his Read More

Age of Innocence

Synopsis: Veterans and war-sympathizers get angry when a Canadian professor begins speaking out with his pacifist ideals shortly after World War II. The tension rises as threats and violence soon erupt. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ragtime Summer

Synopsis: In this drama, a British ex-con, incarcerated for conscientiously objecting to the war, is finally released. He immediately takes of to Canada where he begins teaching in a boys' academy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

To the Devil, a Daughter

Actors: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Christopher Lee stars in this weak occult melodrama as Father Michael Rayner, an excommunicated priest who decides to save the world from its decadence by teaming up with Satan. Richard Widmark is on hand as John Verney, out to stop Rayner's satanic rituals and helped along on the path of goodness Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even so, it followed the plot of Dumas' novel fairly closely, its liberties Read More

Something Big

Synopsis: In this western, an outlaw anxiously awaits the arrival of his betrothed, who is under the false impression that her fiancé is worth a fortune. Unfortunately, the fellow has earned nothing during his stint in the West. Desperate to keep her, he begins plotting the theft of a Mexican bandit's loot. Read More

Fright

Actors: Tara Collinson

Synopsis: In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are terrorized by an escaped mental patient who bursts in and holds them hostage. He claims to be the three-year-old boy's father and has come to murder his ex-wife. Meanwhile to Read More

The Last Grenade

Actors: Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Rafer Johnson

Synopsis: In this grim wartime drama, two vengeful soldiers of fortune engage in a deadly competition to see who can kill the other first. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Actors: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: This melodrama is taken from a story by D.H. Lawrence. Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and her sister Lucille (Harriet Harper) are two country girls who return home after attending a provincial school. Yvette is smitten by the sight of a handsome gypsy (Franco Nero). Her stern matriarchal grandmother (Fay Compton Read More

Der Kampf um rom II: Der Verrat

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman

Child Bride

Synopsis: Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third title, Twinky). Bronson plays a middle-aged author who falls in love with 16-year-old Susan George. Their subsequent marriage causes such friction with George's family that she Read More

Lola

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

An Agent for the Plaintiff

Synopsis: A largely British cast appears in the 90-minute American TV drama Agent for the Plaintiff. Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), the publisher of Crime magazine, is the defendent in a libel suit. As the trial progresses, it appears as though Howard is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney Read More

Shalako

Actors: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Van Eyck, Stephen Boyd, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run across an Apache camp where the Countess Irina (Brigitte Bardot) is being held hostage. When the Indians retaliate by destroying the camp of the European aristocrats, Shalako Read More

Der Kampf um Rom I

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome). The film depicts the Goths' sacking of Rome in 526 AD. No expense was spared in bringing this story to the screen: for example, Siodmak utilized six companies of Rumanian Read More

A Twist of Sand

Actors: Richard Johnson, Honor Blackman, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Roy Dotrice, Jack May

Synopsis: A former World War II submarine captain and his friend turn to smuggling when a former crew member lays out a plan to retrieve some hidden diamonds. Geoffrey (Richard Johnson) and his sidekick David (Roy Dotrice) listen to Riker (Jeremy Kemp) as he tells of the hidden treasure near the Skeleton Read More

Moment to Moment

Actors: Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Sean Garrison, Arthur Hill, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this suspense drama. Kay Stanton (Jean Seberg) is the wife of well-known psychiatrist Neil Stanton (Arthur Hill). Neil's international reputation often keeps him on the road Read More

Life at the Top

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a film in 1959. Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) Read More

The Secret of My Success

Actors: Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Honor Blackman, James Booth, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: At the beginning of The Secret of My Success, dimwitted Arthur Tate (James Booth) is a local village bobby who always follows his mother's advice to "help other people, and never look for the evil in them" -- perhaps not the best advice for an officer of the law. Tate soon finds himself Read More

Avengers: The Secrets Broker

Synopsis: The murder of a secret agent appears to be tied in with a seemingly normal suburban wine shop. Following the evidence trail, Steed finds that the shop conceals a photographic darkroom. As an upshot, Cathy finds herself attending a séance conducted by a spirtualist (Alice Landon) who sidelines in Read More

Avengers: The Outside-In Man

Synopsis: Unable to assassinate a British traitor, the government is forced to deal with the man in an upcoming round of arms negotiations. Though he despises the assignment, Steed must protect the traitor from harm. He has his work cut out for him. The man originally assigned to kill the turncoat, long Read More

Avengers: Build A Better Mousetrap

Synopsis: Producer-writer Brian Clemens was in top form with this episode, which originally aired on February 15, 1964. Cathy Gale adds to her already impressive leather wardrobe when she joins a motorcycle gang. No, she hasn't "gone punk," she's merely trying to help Steed find the location of an insidious Read More

Avengers: Concerto

Synopsis: Nigel Stock guest stars as a Soviet pianist who has been implicated in an unsavory murder case. In order to save his reputation -- and his life -- the pianist must kill a visiting dignitary. Normally, Steed would be racing to the pianist's rescue; this time, however, he finds himself an unwilling Read More

Avengers: Espirit De Corps

Synopsis: Cathy is informed that she is of royal blood -- and in fact is next in line for the British throne. Unfortunately, her only chance of assuming her proper place in life is if an impending military coup is successful. It is up to Steed to prevent that coup. . .but can he rely upon Cathy's Read More

Avengers: Mandrake

Synopsis: Steed suspects that something's amiss when one of his old friends, a wealthy businessman, is buried in an out-of-the-way Cornish village. Several other deceased millionaires have likewise chosen this burial site, and it just doesn't add up. Conducting an investigation, Steed and Gale uncover a Read More

Avengers: The Little Wonders

Synopsis: When a country clergyman is found dead with a gun and a roll of microfilm in his possession, Steed poses as the man's replacement. This enables him to gain access to the venerable crime organization Bibliotek, at present locked in a power struggle. This episode marks the second time that Read More

Avengers: Lobster Quadrille

Synopsis: Honor Blackman made her final Avengers appearance as Cathy Gale in this episode, which was originally broadcast on March 21, 1964. The plot is set in motion when a British agent is burnt to death. The only clue to his murder is an odd-looking chess piece, which leads Steed and Cathy right into the Read More

Avengers: The Wringer

Synopsis: Assigned to investigate the disappearance of five fellow agents, Steed ends up being accused of their murders. Alas, the only person able to prove his innocence has completely lost his memory. Acting on her own volition, Cathy tries to get to the truth herself and learns a few unpleasant facts Read More

Avengers: The White Elephant

Synopsis: How could anyone steal a huge albino elephant? To solve the mystery, Cathy poses as a hunter and pays a visit to Noah's Arc, a game preserve specializing in supplying animals to zoos. Meanwhile, Steed picks up a few stray clues, including a most unusual pair of handcuffs. Written by John Read More

Avengers: The Charmers

Synopsis: First telecast on February 29, 1964, this episode was penned by Avengers stalwart Brian Clemens. Steed finds himself under suspicion when several enemy agents are killed off in a short period of time. In order to clear himself and avert an international incident, Steed works side by side with the Read More

Goldfinger

Actors: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata, Shirley Eaton, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), from robbing Fort Knox. Read More

Avengers: The Trojan Horse

Synopsis: A horse stable turns out to be the headquarters of a highly sophisticated murder-for-hire service. Hoping to beard the crooks in their den, Steed employs the services of a valuable race horse. Cathy joins in the scheme when she takes a job with a bookmaking operation -- and, in the words of the Read More

Avengers: Brief For Murder

Synopsis: The third season of The Avengers arrived with the happy news that Cathy Gale would henceforth be John Steed's full-time partner, displacing such second-season "temps" as Venus Smith (Julie Stevens) and Dr. Martin King (Jon Rollason). Even so, the first episode of the season, "Brief for Murder," Read More

Jason and the Argonauts

Actors: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason (Todd Armstrong), rightful heir to the throne of Thessaly, is spared from death through the intervention of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman). The other celestial inhabitants of Read More

Avengers: The Gilded Cage

Synopsis: For reasons which remain unclear until the episode's midway point, Steed and Cathy enlist the aid of veteran criminal J. P. Spagge (Patrick Magee) to rob a bank of three million pounds. Even more confusing is the fact that Cathy is subsequently arrested for Spagge's murder. Even when an Read More

Avengers: Death a la Carte

Synopsis: In London for a medical checkup, Emir Abdulla Akaba (Henry Soskin) is murdered by a person or persons unknown. This proves embarrassing for Steed and Cathy, who'd been assigned to protect the Emir. Still in disguise as a hotel chef and social secretary, the Avengers try to determine who knocked Read More

Avengers: Dressed To Kill

Synopsis: First telecast in England on December 28, 1963, this episode begins with a missile attack on England, which fortunately proves to be a fake. Wondering why only one of the country's radar stations failed to report the attack, Steed purchases some valuable property bordering that station. Shortly Read More

Avengers: Don't Look Behind You

Synopsis: Invited to visit the country estate of a renowned historian, Cathy discovers that her host has vanished and that his highly suspicous ward (Janine Gray) has taken his place. Before long, Cathy finds herself being stalked by a shadowy assassin. Will Steed arrive in time to save Cathy from a grisly Read More

Avengers: Death of a Batman

Synopsis: The "batman" referred to in the title was not of the Caped Crusader variety, but instead the former valet to John Steed. When the man in question, who after WWII worked as a humble printer's assistant, leaves behind an estate worth over half a million pounds, Steed investigates. It turns out that Read More

Avengers: Second Sight

Synopsis: Steed is assigned to transport a shipment of live corneas to Switzerland to be used in a delicate eye-graft operation. But when one of the surgeons involved is murdered, Steed and Cathy uncover a sinister plot involving a sightless millionaire (John Carson). Also figuring in on the proceedings is Read More

Avengers: The Undertakers

Synopsis: The reclusive millionaire whom Steed was assigned to escort to New York has been spirited away to a private nursing home -- in a coffin. Investigating these mysterious goings-on, Cathy gets a job at the same home. Finally locating the missing person, Cathy discovers that the man has been replaced Read More

Avengers: The Grandeur That Was Rome

Synopsis: Steed and Cathy investigate a rash of mysterious crop failures in Europe, Asia, and England. The trail of clues leads to the headquarters of the World Empire Party, a cult that worships the glories of ancient Rome. The head of the cult is Bruno (Hugh Burden), a self-styled Caesar bent on taking Read More

Avengers: The Nutshell

Synopsis: Someone has broken into an "impenetrable" underground spy headquarters and microfilmed a valuable document. The subsequent investigation reveals the startling "fact" that John Steed was in on the caper. While Steed languishes in prison, Cathy tries to get at the truth by trailing the beautiful Read More

Avengers: The Medicine Men

Synopsis: Cathy dons an eye-patch when she goes undercover as part of a plan to expose an insidious black-market pharmaceutical ring. The plot thickens when it is learned that one of the villains intends to wage biological warfare in the Middle East -- the better to foment widespread anti-British sentiment. Read More

Avengers: November Five

Synopsis: One-and-a-half seconds after his election, a muckraking politician is murdered. Hoping to get to the bottom of the mystery, Steed arranges for Cathy to take the dead man's place. But it turns out that the "murder victim" is very much alive, and he intends to detonate a nuclear warhead in London on Read More

Avengers: The Golden Fleece

Synopsis: Steed searches high and low for Mister Lo (Robert Lee), an infamous gold smuggler. His investigation leads to a group of disgruntled military men who use their ill-gotten gains for a surprisingly worthy cause. Elements essential to the plot include a mysterious check for 5,000 pounds, a Chinese Read More

Avengers: Man With Two Shadows

Synopsis: There's a rumor afoot that several top British agents have been replaced by doubles. Sent to investigate, Steed promptly disappears, whereupon his double shows up in his place. Ordered to kill the false Steed, Cathy has a devillish time trying to determine which twin is the phony. The Read More

Avengers: Mr. Teddy Bear

Synopsis: Honor Blackman made her first Avengers appearance as leather-clad "talented amateur" Cathy Gale in this episode, which originally aired on September 29, 1962. The plot begins to thicken when a contract is put out on John Steed -- by none other than his new partner, Cathy Gale. No, it's not an act Read More

Avengers: Propellant 23

Synopsis: The title of this Avengers episode refers to a new liquid rocket fuel. Assigned to rendezvous with the man delivering the fuel to the Government, Steed and Cathy discover that the man has been murdered. They spend the rest of the episode trying to wrest the fuel from the hands of enemy agents Read More

Avengers: Immortal Clay

Synopsis: An industrial spy is found murdered in an out-of-the-way pottery factory. Posing as an author, Cathy investigates the killing, which is tied in with a secret formula for an unbreakable ceramic. Alas, Cathy herself is most breakable, and she has quite a time remaining in one piece before Steed Read More

Avengers: The Big Thinker

Synopsis: The title of this episode refers to a huge futuristic computer named Plato. When the computer is sabotaged and one of its creators is murdered, Cathy is dispatched to the scene to investigate. Wondering why she's been given a solo assignment, Cathy is unaware that Steed is monitoring her every Read More

Avengers: Killer Whale

Synopsis: The Avengers' second season came to a close with this episode, which originally aired on March 23, 1963. Written by John Lucarotti, the plot concerns an effort to smuggle valuable ambergris. Steed and Cathy become part of the action in a circuitous manner, when Cathy agrees to manage an Read More

Avengers: Six Hands Across A Table

Synopsis: Cathy falls in love with the widowed father of one of her oldest friends. Little does she know that her current amour, a prominent shipbuilder, is at the center of a scheme to control all British ship manufacturing -- and he's not above murder to achieve his goal. This time around, John Read More

Avengers: Intercrime

Synopsis: Wounded during a robbery, a two-bit thief awakens in Steed's apartment. After intense interrogation, the thief lets slip that he is a small cog in a huge world-wide crime syndicate. In order to infiltrate the villains' headquarters, Cathy poses as German criminal Hilda Stern, who at present is Read More

Avengers: The White Dwarf

Synopsis: The title refers to an astronomical phenomenon that might bring about the end of the world. The only scientist who knows for certain what's in store for mankind is brutally murdered, bringing Steed and Cathy in on the case. As the Avengers elude various villains and sidestep government cover-ups Read More

Serena

Synopsis: In this interesting mystery, a police inspector learns that an artist's wife has been murdered and her identity assumed by one of the artist's models. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Avengers: The Mauritius Penny

Synopsis: The "gimmick" in this Avengers episode is a rare postage stamp. When a famed stamp collector is killed, Steed and Cathy head to a philatelic convention, where the aforementioned stamp is about to be auctioned off for a ridiculously low price. The convention turns out to be a front for a radical Read More

Avengers: Death of a Great Dane

Synopsis: Discovered lying on the side of a road, an auto crash victim turns out to have a fortune in diamonds hidden in his stomach. Following the trail of evidence, Steed and Cathy discover that the estate of a dying philanthropist is slowly and methodically being stolen and smuggled out of the country. Read More

Avengers: Warlock

Synopsis: After lapsing into a comatose state, a rocket scientist suddenly disappears from view. Investigating the situation, Steed and Cathy discover that the missing scientist was deeply influenced by the occult. When the man is found dead, the Avengers immerse themselves in the world of Black Magic to Read More

Avengers: Traitor In Zebra

Synopsis: It's possible that a traitor stationed at a top-secret naval base is causing malfunctions every time an experimental tracking system is tested. The man accused of treachery pleads innocence, and Steed believes him. Posing as a military psychiatrist and a chemist, Steed and Gale set a trap for the Read More

Avengers: Conspiracy of Silence

Synopsis: Cathy poses as a journalist to find out why a circus clown (Robert Rietty) is trying to murder Steed. It turns out that the clown is a functionary of the Mafia, and that Steed is getting too close for comfort to the "organization's" American drug-smuggling operation. It also turns out that the Read More

Avengers: Death Dispatch

Synopsis: Steed and Cathy are sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British courier. Compounding the mystery is the fact that the courier was carrying papers of no major importance. The Avengers end up following the clue trail to Buenos Aires, where they come up against a most unexpected opponent. Read More

Avengers: Death On The Rocks

Synopsis: London's federation of diamond merchants is being plagued by a vicious gang of smugglers. Steed and Cathy pose as husband-and-wife gem dealers in hopes of flushing out the villains. Ultimately, Cathy is targetted for death by the smugglers, but here as elsewhere, she proves to be up to the Read More

Avengers: The Golden Eggs

Synopsis: Steed suspects that there's more than meets the eye when a scientist's lab is broken into but not robbed -- at least, not obviously robbed. Investigating, Steed and Cathy follow the trail of evidence to the "golden eggs" of the title, each of which contains a deadly viral microbe. Racing Read More

A Matter of Who

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers, Honor Blackman, Guy Deghy

Synopsis: The "WHO" in A Matter of Who isn't a "who" but a "what". The word is an anagram for the World Health Organization, a curious subject for a British comedy--especially one which utilizes a communicable disease as a plot device! WHO operatives Terry-Thomas and Alex Nicol trace the outbreak of a Read More

Avengers: Bullseye

Synopsis: Going undercover, Cathy Gale joins the board of directors of a highly suspicious munitions firm. It's all part of a master scheme to infiltrate an organization specializing in smuggling and assassination. But before she can put all the pieces together and trap the head villains, Cathy is herself Read More

Adventures of Charlie Chan, Vols. 1-3

The Invisible Man: Blind Justice

Synopsis: Honor Blackman, the future "Pussy Galore" of Goldfinger fame, guest stars as Katherine Holt, a blind woman married to a British pilot (played by Jack Watling, the father of Invisible Man regular (Deborah Watling). Wrongly accused of trafficking in illegal drugs, Katherine's husband is killed Read More

The Square Peg

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman, Campbell Singer, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: In this British comedy, set during WWII, a street laborer likes to harass the British soldiers and ends up drafted into becoming part of the British army labor regiment. Unfortunately, a mix-up occurs and he ends up being parachuted behind Nazi lines where he is mistaken for a Nazi officer. Read More

Adventures of Charlie Chan, Vol. 1

Adventures of Charlie Chan, Vol. 3

Adventures of Charlie Chan, Vol. 2

The Bank Raiders

Synopsis: In this competent entertainment about a minor crook in trouble, Terry is the driver for a successful bank job. He is told by gang-boss Shelton to lie low but instead celebrates with Della, a greedy but alluring party girl, then gets picked up on suspicion. He is released when the key witness Read More

A Night to Remember

Actors: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Jane Downs, Jill Dixon

Synopsis: This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter Lord, and it preceded the blockbuster Titanic by almost 40 years. The film covers the life and death of the huge vessel from its launching celebration to that fateful night of Read More

Account Rendered

Actors: Honor Blackman, Ursula Howells, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: The always reliable Griffith Jones is afforded the leading role in the British Account Rendered. Jones plays a victim of circumstance, accused of murdering his wife Ursula Howells. With the police breathing down his neck, Jones endeavors to prove his innocence. He is aided in this effort by the Read More

You Pay Your Money

Synopsis: In this crime drama, the trouble begins when Arabs kidnap a young wife and hold her hostage for a pair of rare books. Mayhem ensues as her husband and another book smuggler team up to get her back without having to sacrifice the rare tomes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Suspended Alibi

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a philanderer finds himself accused of murder after the man he used for his alibi is found murdered. Fortunately, his story is believed by a hard-working crime reporter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Breakaway

Synopsis: In this thriller, a secret formula purported to prevent metal fatigue during supersonic flight is stolen. Now, rival groups search for it. A kidnapping is also involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Diplomatic Passport

Synopsis: Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s, was able to find occasional work in England. Ms. Hunt is top-billed in Diplomatic Passport, but hers is a secondary role to hero Paul Carpenter. The latter plays an American diplomat who is being used as an Read More

The Yellow Robe

Synopsis: This crime drama contains two stories. In the first, a luckless fellow has even worse luck when he is suspected of murder because the victim carried information that would have kept the man from inheriting a fortune. Fortunately, another person had an even greater motive for the killing and 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

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 Rainbow Jacket

Actors: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred from racing. Although he himself can no longer race, the jockey decides to live his dreams through Georgie Crain, who becomes his youthful protege. Sam teaches George all he Read More

Green Grow the Rushes

Actors: Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton, Frederick Leister, John Salew

Synopsis: Though Green Grow the Rushes has the look and feel of an Ealing comedy, the film was actually produced through the auspices of British Lion. The story takes place on the southern coast of England, where through a bureaucratic oversight a small patch of land in Kent is protected from outside legal Read More

So Long at the Fair

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Honor Blackman, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now accepted as truth. The year is 1889: the setting, the Paris Exhibition. Among the thousands in attendance are Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson Read More

Conspirator

Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda Greyton, the new bride of highly respected Major Michael Curraugh (Robert Taylor). It comes as quite a jolt when Melinda learns that her husband is actually a spy for the 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

Homecoming

Actors: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins

Synopsis: When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based on his own memories of losing his wife Carole Lombard in a 1942 plane crash. Intriguingly, Gable's Homecoming co-star is Lana Turner, with whom it was rumored that he was Read More

Quartet

Actors: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole, Jack Raine, Cecil Parker, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful Read More

Daughter of Darkness

Actors: Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Grant Tyler, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: Daughter of Darkness was based on They Walk Alone, a play by Max Catto. The heroine of the play can be described as a "homicidal nymphomaniac," which understandably posed censorship problems when the Catto original was adapted to the screen. In her second film, Irish stage star Siobhan McKenna Read More

Fame Is the Spur

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann, Hugh Burden

Synopsis: When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to help the beleaguered workers in his area, he takes as his symbol a sword passed down to him by an ancestor who picked it up at the Battle of Peterloo in 1819, where it had Read More

The Avengers: Season 02

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: During its first season on Britain's ITV, The Avengers was by and large a "straight" espionage adventure series, with no sci-fi/fantasy trappings, and with two male secret agents -- Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel -- handling the bulk of the action. Beginning with its Read More

The Avengers: Season 03

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: By the time its third season rolled around, The Avengers was British television's most popular action-adventure series, and had gained an international reputation thanks to its tongue-in-cheek plot convolutions and the innuendo-laden rapport between its two leading characters: erudite Read More