Leslie PhillipsFilmography

Color Me Kubrick

Actors: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact that Conway was openly gay, bore no physical resemblance to Kubrick, and knew little about the director's work. Read More

Venus

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard Griffiths, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: An aging pair of veteran English actors whose success never quite took hold finds their quiet existence suddenly interrupted by the arrival of one of the men's precocious grandnieces in director Roger Michell's affectionate comedy drama. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) may still Read More

Millions

Actors: Alex Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan, Christopher Fulford

Synopsis: Director Danny Boyle revisits a theme from his Shallow Grave and Trainspotting days -- greed -- but focuses on a much younger protagonist with this comedy drama. Millions opens with recent widower Ronnie (James Nesbitt) moving his two precocious pre-pubescent sons to the suburbs. Missing his Read More

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

Actors: Christian Slater, Neve Campbell, Leslie Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Antony Sher

Thunderpants

Actors: Bruce Cook, Rupert Grint, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie

Synopsis: The family-oriented comedy Thunderpants, directed by Peter Hewitt, concerns an unfortunate ten-year-old who suffers from nearly incessant intestinal gas issues. Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook) is shunned by much of his family and his classmates because of the unpleasant odors that are forever emanating Read More

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: A popular video game comes to the screen with this big-budget adventure starring Angelina Jolie as a buxom heroine recalling equal parts Indiana Jones and James Bond. Jolie is Lara Croft, a proper British aristocrat groomed at schools for the children of the elite. Croft leads a double life Read More

Saving Grace

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie Forman

Synopsis: Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell

Synopsis: This modern TV-movie update of the Oscar Wilde tale is noteworthy for a grandiose performance by Patrick Stewart as the melancholy spectre of Sir Simon Canterville, doomed to wander the corridors of his vast estate for the past four centuries in guilt and despair over his wife's suicide. Stewart Read More

The Pale Horse

Actors: Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris, Leslie Phillips, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's super sleuth Mark Easterbrook gets involved with a trio of contemporary witches while looking into the death of a priest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

August

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Kate Burton, Leslie Phillips, Gawn Grainger, Rhian Morgan

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, recasting the action in Hopkins' homeland of Wales. Ieuan Davies (Anthony Hopkins) has devoted most of his life to managing the estate of Professor Blathwaite (Leslie Phillips); while he's generally Read More

Caught in the Act

Synopsis: A trio of women, off on a country holiday decide to enter an amateur talent show in this British comedy. Much of the fun comes from trying to watch them devise a suitable act. The rest comes from the show itself which is of course, perfectly dreadful. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Das Karussell des Todes

The House of Windsor

Actors: Warren Clarke, Leslie Phillips

The Changeling

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: A fiancee goes to great length to get out of her impending marriage in this British made-for-television movie, which is based on the play of the same name. Elizabeth McGovern stars as a woman about to get married, who meets her one true-love -- who is not her fiancé -- and devises a murderous plot Read More

Bermuda Grace

Actors: Andrew Jackson

Love on a Branch Line

Synopsis: A sensible civil servant on the verge of resigning from his dreary job is assigned the task of assessing the functionality of a long-abandoned government research facility, only to become enamored with the quirky population of the remote, East Anglia town that houses it, in director Martyn Read More

Carry on Columbus

Actors: Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle

Synopsis: In this last gasp of the "Carry On" series, minus most of the "Carry On" players, Jim Dale plays Spanish map-maker Christopher Columbus, who has a plan to navigate a new route to India, bypassing the Sultan of Turkey (Rik Mayall) and his sky-high tributes. He convinces King Ferdinand of Spain (Leslie Phillips Read More

King Ralph

Actors: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs -- people not in the direct line of decent, like cousins, great-nephews and the like. On rare occasions, these people are not even aware that they are about to be elevated to the House of Lords, and they have Read More

Mountains of the Moon

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Peter Vaughan, John Savident

Synopsis: Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort Read More

Scandal

Actors: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips

Synopsis: In 1963, the conservative British government was shaken to its foundations by the Profumo Scandal. The central character in this disastrous affair was John Profumo, Britain's minister of war, who had become sexually involved with call-girl Christine Keeler, whose "sponsor" was high-priced Read More

Summer's Lease

Actors: Annette Crosbie, Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Suzanne Hay, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: Adapted by John Mortimer from his own novel, the British miniseries Summer's Lease starred Susan Fleetwood as British housewife Molly Pargeter who, with her family, spent an eventful summer vacation at La Felicita, a villa in Tuscany. Molly had hoped to soak in the local color and revel in the Read More

Empire of the Sun

Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich Read More

Monte Carlo

Actors: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Robert Carradine, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the French city. She moonlights, however, as an Allied spy to retaliate against the Nazis who murdered her husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Out of Africa

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her married name, Karen Blixen-Flecke. For convenience's sake, Karen (Meryl Streep) has married Baron Bor Blixen-Flecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). In 1914 Read More

La Mosca Hispanica

Not Now, Comrade

Actors: Ray Cooney, Roy Kinnear, Carol Hawkins

Synopsis: Lewis Flander and Carol Hawkins star in the hectic British farce Not Now Comrade. Flander plays a Russian ballet dancer who decides to defect. Unable to reach the British embassy, Flander hides out with London stripteaser Hawkins. There's an abundance of female flesh in this one, a fact that Read More

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

Actors: Katy Manning

Synopsis: In this comedy, based on a stage play, a randy politician gets in trouble for sleeping with his secretary and another woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Not Now, Darling

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Moira Lister

Synopsis: In this comedy, a married man in the fur business gets in trouble after he finds himself attracted to a gangster's moll. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

Actors: Bruce Forsyth, Joan Sims, Roy Hudd

Synopsis: A collection of English humor in the form of sketch film are provided on this film which was assisted by comedians Feldman and Chapman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Some Will, Some Won't

Synopsis: In this farce, four people go to extremes to inherit the giant fortune of a wealthy practical joker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor in Trouble

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, James Robertson Justice, Angela Scoular, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy begins when Doctor Burke (Leslie Phillips) chases the beautiful Ophelia (Angela Scoular) on board an ocean liner and is trapped. He masquerades as a female photographer to avoid detection, hoping to propose marriage to Ophelia. Burke tries to avoids the suspicion of pompous Read More

Maroc 7

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gene Barry, Cyd Charisse, Elsa Martinelli, Leslie Phillips, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: It's Funny Face meets Rififi in Maroc 7, starring Cyd Charisse as Louise Henderson, an editor for a slick and chic fashion magazine who utilizes her jet-setting life style as a front for an international jewel-smuggling operation. Abetting her in the scheme is the magazine's top photographer and Read More

Doctor in Clover

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Shirley Ann Field, John Fraser, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Doctor in Clover is the next-to-last entry in the British "Doctor" comedy film series. After losing his government job, doctor Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips) signs up for a medical school course with his old tutor-nemesis Sir Lancelot Spratt (welcome back, James Robertson Justice). What Read More

You Must Be Joking?

Actors: Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, Terry-Thomas, Gabriella Licudi, Patricia Viterbo

Synopsis: You Must be Joking? draws its laughs from an Army endurance test. Over a 48-hour period, five officers in the British army-including American transplant Michael Callan-must wend their way through a maze, retrieve a hood ornament from a Rolls Royce and steal a lock of hair from beauteous pop singer Read More

Father Came Too!

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Sally Smith, Ron Barker

Synopsis: In this lively British comedy, a newlywed couple's quaint country cottage becomes a nightmare of repairs as they try to fix it up themselves. They originally purchased the ramshackle pile to escape the influence of the new wife's meddlesome father. Unfortunately, the place needs more help than Read More

The Fast Lady

Actors: James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Kathleen Harrison, Julie Christie

Synopsis: The star of this slapstick comedy is not a person but an antique Bentley sports car, the source of several misadventures. Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is a simple civil servant who has his heart set on romancing Claire (Julie Christie in an early role), the daughter of wealthy businessman Read More

Crooks Anonymous

Synopsis: This comedy features a 12-step Program for habitual hoods. The recovering criminal takes a job as a department store Santa, and again finds himself confronted with temptation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roommates

The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

Watch Your Stern

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: Based on the play Something About a Sailor by Earle Couttie, this film is a screwball comedy about the British navy. Kenneth Connor is Officer Blissworth, who is an inept bungler of a sailor. With an equally inadequate partner, Captain David Foster (Eric Barker), he loses the plans for modifying Read More

Raising the Wind

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Sidney James, Paul Massie, Kenny Williams, Eric Barker

Synopsis: Director Gerald Thomas and most of the cast and crew that worked in his "Carry On...." series of comedies are all back again in the funny, sometimes slapstick Raising the Wind. The plot is no more than a situation which then invites multiple sidetracks -- it seems the students at the prestigious Read More

A Weekend with Lulu

Actors: Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks, Shirley Eaton, Irene Handl

Synopsis: In another standard British comedy of the absurd with the usual eccentric characters who play off each other like tennis pros on a court, A Weekend with Lulu centers on the misadventures of the occupants of an ice cream truck and its rundown trailer. Because of a mix-up, the four inside the truck Read More

Very Important Person

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes

Synopsis: Very Important Person is an amusing British comedy set in a German POW camp during World War II. Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice) is a self-important professor with a bloated ego and a lightning put-down. When he is flown over Germany disguised as a navy officer to check out the Read More

In the Doghouse

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley

Synopsis: Two veterinarians contrast with each other in this standard British comedy by Darcy Conyers. Jimmy Fox-Upton (Leslie Phillips) is a decent chap who took more than ten years of hard work to get his vet's license. His nemesis, Bob Skeffington (James Booth) shortened the time to his license by Read More

Inn for Trouble

Synopsis: Based on a British TV comedy, this is the tale of a London couple who inherit a pub in the country, only to find that their troubles are just beginning. Someone doesn't seem to want to make their business a success, but their invention should stop all that nonsense. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Carry on Constable

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take on law enforcement in this rude and crude slapstick comedy. When a flu epidemic leaves a British police station decimated with illness, three incompetent rookies are given the chance to prove themselves as police officers. The three screwy recruits are Tom Potter (Leslie Phillips Read More

No Kidding

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

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

Please Turn Over

Actors: Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood

Synopsis: Please Turn Over is an updated British variation on a theme put forth by the old Hollywood film Theodora Goes Wild. A bored young teenage girl (Julia Lockwood) causes a scandal when she pens a torrid bestseller. Those close to the girl recognize themselves as characters in the book; all they can Read More

Doctor in Love

Actors: Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips, Carole Lesley

Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of "doctor" films that began in 1953 with Doctor in the House. Unlike its predecessors, the chief medico is now Dr. Richard Hare (Michael Craig) and he tends to share the spotlight with a few colleagues, making this more of an ensemble effort. Dr. Hare is in his own Read More

The Man Who Liked Funerals

Synopsis: In this comedy, a man chooses an unethical way to help keep a financially struggling boy's club from closing down, by threatening to publish incriminating articles about prominent people who have recently died. His blackmail scheme is successful until he attempts to extort from a gangster's 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

Make Mine a Double

Synopsis: In this British comedy, two look-a-likes, an airman and a secret agent, find double trouble when they are assigned a top-secret task by their government. The airman is to impersonate the agent to confuse the Nazis while the real agent sneaks into France to investigate the new buzz bombs. Read More

Carry on Teacher

Actors: Ted Ray, Kenneth Connor, Kenny Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis: This third entry in the "Carry On" sweepstakes concerns William Wakefield (Ted Ray), the much-loved headmaster at a British school, who applies for a new job at a recently built country school. When Felicity Wheeler (Rosalind Knight) and Alistair Grigg (Leslie Phillips) from the Ministry of Read More

The Angry Hills

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Müller, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Theodore Bikel, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly) directed this cloak-and-dagger yarn (based on a bestseller by Leon Uris), filmed on sumptuous locations in Greece. Set in Athens in 1941, before the Nazis overran the country, Robert Mitchum plays American war correspondent Mike Morrison, who has come into the Read More

This Other Eden

Synopsis: This British comedy is set in 1945 Ireland and tells the story of a small town that plans to erect a monument to honor an IRA rebel during the 1920s. The son of the British colonel responsible for the killing strongly objects. After the statue has been unveiled, the rebel's mischievous son Read More

Carry on Nurse

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Terence Longdon, Leslie Phillips, Bill Owen, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce. There's not much of a plot, but plenty of nudging and winking, as the male patients line up by their bedpans as a mixed assortment of female nurses tend to their every whim. Read More

Night We Dropped a Clanger

Actors: Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn

Synopsis: Perhaps in an earlier era or in some remote village, this comedy would work, but this story about two mixed-up identities during World War II is comedically outdated. Brian Rix has the dual role of an Air Force officer who is going on an important military mission to France. The brass decide to Read More

I Was Monty's Double

Actors: John Mills, Cecil Parker, Patrick Allen, M.E. Clifton-James, Patrick Holt, Michael Hordern, Marius Goring

Synopsis: If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor M.E. Clifton James plays himself, a British stock-company actor who becomes an unsung hero during World War II. It seems that James, serving his country as a junior officer, is the exact Read More

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 Brothers in Law

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: The British Brothers in Law is a characteristically enjoyable Boulting-brother farce, again extracting humor out of the commonplace. Ian Carmichael stars as a novice attorney, full of notions but coming-on a bit too strong for his fellow lawyers. Thanks to the intervention of irascible judge Miles Malleson Read More

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Actors: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Susan Stephen, Jean Anderson

Synopsis: First filmed in 1934 with Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton, Rudolf Bessier's stage hit The Barretts of Wimpole Street was lavishly remade in CinemaScope and Metrocolor in 1957. This time around, Jennifer Jones stars as the beautiful invalid Elizabeth Barrett, who lives under the Read More

Les Girls

Actors: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Jacques Bergerac

Synopsis: Les Girls is the Rashomon of MGM musicals. The film is told in flashback, as Mitzi Gaynor and Taina Elg, two-thirds of a popular cabaret trio, attempt to legally block the third, Kay Kendall, from writing her memoirs. Each of "Les Girls" has her own interpretation of the group's previous Read More

The Smallest Show on Earth

Actors: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. Read More

Just My Luck

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips, Delphi Lawrence, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Norman Wisdom, Britain's much-funnier answer to Jerry Lewis, stars in Just My Luck. Wisdom plays a humble jewelry-store clerk who begins playing the horses, the better to raise enough money to buy a fancy gift for girlfriend Anne (Jill Dixon). Much to his surprise, Wisdom wins a fortune at the Read More

High Flight

Actors: Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh, Anthony Newley, Kenneth Fortescue

Synopsis: In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery, irresponsible cadet. The lad reminds the officer of himself when he was young. It also reminds him that his own youthful arrogance and foolishness caused the death of the new Read More

The Gamma People

Actors: Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilia, Philip Leaver

Synopsis: Filmed in England, The Gamma People is a strange blend of "Prisoner of Zenda" type adventure, comic opera, cold war paranoia and science fiction. The film is set in Gudavia, a mythical European country ruled by scientists. These misguided intellectuals have been utilizing gamma rays to create a Read More

The Big Money

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Belinda Lee, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Helpmann, James Hayter

Synopsis: Ian Carmichael plays the "white sheep" in a family of successful thieves. Everyone in the clan has made a healthy career out of crime except poor Ian, so he decides to redeem himself with a single spectacular caper. Somehow this involves a passel of Arabs and an unctuous TV news team, all of whom Read More

Value for Money

Actors: John Gregson, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen, Derek Farr, Frank Pettingell

Synopsis: John Gregson stars as Chayley Broadbent, a young Yorkshire businessman leading a dull, perfunctory life. He inherits a sizeable fortune, plus a prosperous textile factory, from his wealthy father. Soon after, he has a fight with his straight-laced girlfriend, Ethel (Susan Stephen) and leaves her Read More

The Limping Man

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips, Helene Cordet

Synopsis: His Hollywood career temporarily in the doldrums in 1953, Lloyd Bridges headed to Britain to star in The Limping Man. Bridges plays an ex-GI who arrives in London to visit his wartime amour (Moira Lister). Before anyone knows what's happened, our hero is mixed up in a murder case. The victim was Read More

The Fake

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton, John Laurie

Synopsis: In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless paintings, "Madonna and Child." A series of art thefts has put the museum officials on red alert and they anxiously await the painting's arrival. Unfortunately, the painting Read More

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Dinah Sheridan

Synopsis: Breaking the Sound Barrier juxtaposes the history of jet aviation with an intensely personal fictional story. Ralph Richardson plays a wealthy aircraft manufacturer, stubbornly determined to develop a jet that will travel faster than the speed of sound. Richardson's seemingly cavalier attitude Read More

Pool of London

Actors: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Ashershon, Earl Cameron, Moira Lister

Synopsis: Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing featured roles in British films as likeably cocky Americans, heads the cast of Pool of London. Ever his brass, cheeky self, Colleano is cast as Dan MacDonald, a sailor who dabbles in a bit of smuggling, just for the fun of it. The fun is over when he Read More

The Galloping Major

Actors: Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott, A.E. Matthews, Renee Ray

Synopsis: Basil Radford is cast superbly to type as The Galloping Major. The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill (Radford) to purchase a valuable race horse. He manages to attain financial backing from 300 fellow racing enthusiasts--and then messes things up for all concerned by buying Read More

The Woman with No Name

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton

Synopsis: The title is a reference to the mental state of leading lady Phyllis Calvert. Ms. Calvert plays an amnesiac, a victim of the wartime air raids, whose past is literally closed off to her. She doesn't know why, but everyone at every turn seems to want something from her--and some of these strangers Read More

Train of Events

Actors: Jack Warner, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Peter Finch, Irina Baronova, Joan Dowling, John Gregson

Synopsis: The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner plays the engine driver, whose daughter's boy friend is responsible for the crash. Peter Finch plays a homicidal actor whose "perfect murder" of his wife is thwarted by the Read More

Lassie from Lancashire

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring actress and her father move into his sister's boarding house where they promptly find themselves abused and overworked. Despite the hardship, the girl is able to find time to fall in love with an aspiring songwriter. When the star of a local mime company learns Read More

The Citadel

Actors: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to treating the residents of a poverty-stricken Welsh mining community. Tuberculosis runs rampant in the village, and Manson is determined to help stem its tide and bring good Read More