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Actors: Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack, Sarah Pickering, Joan Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes
Synopsis: Little Dorrit was intended as the cinematic equivalent to the mammoth, eight hour Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby. The film was released to theatres in two parts, each running approximately three hours. The first part, subtitled "Nobody's Fault," introduced us to Read More
Actors: Joan Hickson
Synopsis: Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel was first aired in 1986. Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickman) takes a holiday at London's prestigious Bertram's Hotel. She senses criminal activity when Lady Bess Sedgwick (Caroline Blakiston) Read More
Actors: Denholm Elliott, Connie Booth, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis: In this conventional drama, Victor is a graying older man (Denholm Elliott) who loses his apartment in a fire. The blaze was caused by his own carelessness while wantonly pursuing the married neighbor. Once he is interned in an old folks' home because he has nowhere else to live, Victor muddies Read More
Actors: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laszlo Galffi, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
Synopsis: Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken its long-winded cue from the lengthy operas of the famous 19th-century German composer and musical theorist -- the Ring des Nibelungen is 14-15 hours in itself, divided into Read More
Synopsis: The seven-hour TV miniseries Ellis Island was adapted from a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart. Per its title, the film is a mosaic of subplots involving several European immigrants who passed through New York's Ellis Island before taking up residence in the Big Apple. Most of the characters are based Read More
Actors: James Mason, Billie Whitelaw, Bernard Cribbins, Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson
Synopsis: Lionel Jeffries directed Water Babies, a children's fantasy based on the story by Charles Kingsley that incorporates live-action and animation in the tradition of The Incredible Mr. Limpet. In Dickensian London, a 12-year-old chimney sweep's apprentice named Tom (Tommy Pender) has to put up with Read More
Actors: Linda Purl, Timothy Dalton, Shane Briant, Richard Johnson, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis: This sudsy made-for-television melodrama is based on a Barbara Cartland novel and follows the romantic exploits of an American heiress who sets sail for exciting Paris at the turn-of-the-century. Initially she is going there to meet her fiance, but once there she ends up falling in love with a Read More
Synopsis: In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by providing him with three different stories of kitty brutality in this anthology of horror. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Denholm Elliott, Joan Greenwood, Terry-Thomas
Synopsis: The concept behind the 1977 Hound of the Baskervilles involved having "underground" director Paul Morrissey bring an irreverent slant to the original Sherlock Holmes mystery. The film thus casts Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as Holmes and Watson, with such reliable British performers as Read More
Actors: Straker
Synopsis: In this comedy, the WASPy parents of an adolescent son, who heretofore showed no interest at all in the opposite sex, are shocked when he suddenly brings home an androgynous girl from the West Indies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, David Hemmings, Joan Greenwood, Maria Theresa Orsini, Catherine Chevallier, Marie Therese Chevallier
Synopsis: A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic Read More
Actors: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery, Joan Greenwood, Irene Papas
Synopsis: Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as Nikky Ferris who is spending time in Crete at a small inn called The Moon-Spinners with her Aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood). One day Nikky discovers a handsome young man, Mark Read More
Actors: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis: Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film follows Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a country boy who becomes one of the wildest playboys in 18th Read More
Actors: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty
Synopsis: Based on Anthony Kimmins' stage success The Amorous Prawn, this British light comedy stars Joan Greenwood as the wife of an Army general (Cecil Parker). Having fallen upon hard times, the wife hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting Read More
Actors: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom
Synopsis: Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its most popular picturization in the hands of producer Charles Schneer, director Cy Endfield and special-effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. During the Civil War, several P.O.W.s led by Gary Merrill Read More
Actors: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall, Christopher Plummer
Synopsis: This remake of Zoe Akins' Morning Glory stars Susan Strasberg as Eva Lovelace, the role that won Katharine Hepburn her first Oscar back in 1933. Fresh from the midwest, the starry-eyed Eva arrives in New York, convinced that she has what it takes to be Broadway's greatest actress. Armed with more Read More
Actors: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker, Jean Anderson, Clive Morton
Synopsis: Lucky Jim is based on the same-named satirical novel by Kingsley Amis. The hero, Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), is a well-intentioned junior history professor in an unnamed British university. Hoping to impress the new chancellor, Jim succeeds only in bollixing up everything he touches. When he's not Read More
Synopsis: Maurice Evans adapted his 1947 Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's 1903 stage comedy Man and Superman for this 90-minute Hallmark Hall of Fame special. Evans himself played the obligatory "voice of Shaw" character, a confirmed bachelor named John Tanner. Despite his witty (and amusingly Read More
Actors: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley
Synopsis: Director Fritz Lang was attracted to the British period piece Moonfleet because of the relatively unregenerate nature of its greedy "hero" Stewart Granger. Young Jon Whitely, who is in the legal custody of Granger, learns that he is to inherit a valuable diamond. Hoping to get his own hands on the Read More
Actors: Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Audrey Hepburn, Derek Farr
Synopsis: The young wife with a tale to tell is Joan Greenwood, who with husband Nigel Patrick shares a tiny house with several other people. One couple, Derek Farr and Helen Cherry, are as annoyingly "perfect" as the rest of the boarders are not. Much of the comedy hinges on the kookiness of young boarder Audrey Hepburn Read More
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
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
Actors: Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Michael Denison, Dorothy Tutin, Miles Malleson, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis: Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's witty play of mistaken identities stars Michael Redgrave as rich bachelor Jack Worthing. Jack's friend is Algernon Moncrieft (Michael Denison), a poor bloke living on credit. Jack refers mysteriously to Algernon about his country retreat, which drives Read More
Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst Thesiger
Synopsis: Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. In the British manufacturing country of Northern England, factory owner Michael Corland (Michael Read More
Actors: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood, Andre Morell
Synopsis: Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Read More
Actors: Joan Greenwood, Marcelle Arnold, Bourvil, Roger Treville, Gérard Oury, Henri Cremieux
Synopsis: Mr. Peek-a-Boo may seem like a puerile title, but it is a lot more graspable to non-French audiences than the original Garou Garou Le Passe Muraille. Bourvil stars as a minor bureaucrat who finds himself the reluctant recipient of magical powers. He is actually able to walk through solid walls Read More
Actors: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis: Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between Read More
Actors: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey, 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
Actors: Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Mai Zetterling, Sonia Holm, Linden Travers
Synopsis: George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in this lavish British chocolate-box epic. From the vantage point of his deathbed, Byron recalls his life and many loves, imagining that he's pleading his case before a Read More
Actors: Adrianne Allen, John Mills, Felix Aylmer, Joan Greenwood, George Benson, Edward Chapman, Esme Beringer, Joyce Carey, Kay Walsh, John Boxer
Synopsis: Adapted by Eric Ambler from his own novel, The October Man centers around Jim Ackland (played by John Mills), who has been involved in a terrible accident that killed a friend's daughter and has given Ackland a brain injury. Despondent after his release from the hospital, Ackland moves into a Read More
Actors: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, Frederick [Fritz] Valk
Synopsis: This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, but it proved to be such a box office disappointment that Ealing never attempted such a lavish costume drama again. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is a young woman Read More
Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood, Richard Attenborough, Francis L. Sullivan
Synopsis: Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from the point of view of seaman Andrews (Richard Attenborough), the ward of 19th century smuggler chieftan Carylyton (Michael Redgrave). Feeling persecuted by his stern Read More
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis: The White Unicorn would be worth watching if only for that lyrical title. The film itself, however, isn't quite so whimsical, not with disgruntled widow Lucy (Margaret Lockwood) and hard-bitten unwed mother Lottie (Joan Greenwood) at the forefront. Trying to find a purpose in life, Lucy takes a Read More
Actors: Derrick de Marney, Frederick [Fritz] Valk, Beresford Egan, Joan Greenwood, Joan Seton
Synopsis: Derrick de Marnay stars as a Parisian sculptor who enters into a deadly menage a trois. The girl in the case (Joan Greenwood) is a bit all right; alas, her husband is off his trolley. When he discovers the illicit affair, Hubby, a sculptor in his own right, bumps off his wife and conceals her body Read More
Actors: Hugh Williams, Joan Greenwood, Naunton Wayne, Wylie Watson
Synopsis: Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently divorced inventor who becomes a scientist for the War Office to escape women, especially overtalkative, nagging ones like his ex-wife. Unfortunately, his female-free peace is Read More
Actors: Nora Swinburne, Joyce Howard, Joan Greenwood, Alfred Drayton
Synopsis: In this drama, an average man of average income finds his life abruptly changed when the securities he purchased from a speculator pan out and he is rich. Unfortunately, the turn out to be securities are worthless and the newly rich man and the speculator lose everything. Unfortunately, by this Read More
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
Actors: Vic Oliver, Sarah Churchill, Evelyn Dall, Gabrielle Brune
Synopsis: Based on Monica Ewer's novel Ring O'Roses, the British musiccomedy He Found a Star is dominated by the thousand-watt personality of music hall favorite Vic Oliver. He's cast as Lucky Lyndon, a seedy but enthusiastic talent agent specializing in small-time variety acts. Lyndon spends the entire Read More
Synopsis: In this old-joke-filled farce, a married couple has to put up with an obnoxious mother-in-law whose husband gets caught necking with a young actress, a traveling salesman, and a piano being mistaken in a conversation for an illegitimate child. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More
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