Lionel JeffriesFilmography

First and Last

Jekyll and Hyde

Actors: Joss Ackland, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Ronald Pickup

Synopsis: In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper--including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine. Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles Read More

Inspector Morse: The Sins of the Fathers

Actors: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Lionel Jeffries, Isabel Dean

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular British detective drama, Morse visits a micro brewery and solves the murder of one of its board of directors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Chorus of Disapproval

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Jenny Seagrove, Sylvia Syms

Synopsis: Alan Ayckbourn's riotously funny play about a small-time acting troupe in the sticks is brought to the screen by director Michael Winner. Jeremy Irons plays Guy Jones, a mild-mannered flunky for an electronics firm who finds himself transferred to the British seaside town of Scarsborough. Bereft Read More

Danny, the Champion of the World

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land, covets the other half. His principal opponents are a father-and-son team of farmers. The warm relationship between the two "good guys" hardly needs to be forced, since the roles Read More

Letting the Birds Go Free

Better Late Than Never

Actors: David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith, Kimberly Partridge, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably weary David Niven plays Nick, the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old heiress Bridget (Kimberly Partridge). Charley (Art Carney) shows up to cramp Nick's act, claiming that he Read More

Cream in My Coffee

Actors: Peter Chelsom, Shelagh McLeod, Lionel Jeffries, Peggy Ashcroft

The Water Babies

Crew: Director

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

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the reigning monarch of the tiny nation of Ruritania. One day, while flying in a hot air balloon, a champagne cork sends him plummeting to his death. The rightful heir, who is Read More

Wombling Free

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: David Tomlinson, Frances de la Tour, Bonnie Langford, Bernard Spear, Yasuko Nagazumi

Synopsis: This children's fantasy is about the "Wombles," borrowed from a British TV series, who are furry creatures (actors in suits), normally invisible to anyone but themselves, and whose mission in life is to clean up after humans -- their first chore was to pick up the forgotten apple core in the Read More

Royal Flash

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland

Synopsis: Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on one of the books in his "Harry Flashman" series, loose sequels to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" that followed that story's central bully character through his checkered Read More

The Bananas Boat

Actors: Doug McClure, Hayley Mills, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: What Changed Charley Farthing stars Doug McClure as a wayfaring sailor stopping over in Havana. In the tradition of The African Queen, the sailor becomes a reluctant hero when he is hired to give safe passage out of Cuba to a young woman (Hayley Mills) and her father (Lionel Jeffries). This Read More

Baxter!

Crew: Director

Actors: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland, Lynn Carlin, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: When actor Lionel Jeffries turned to directing in the 1970s, he exhibited a preference for whimsy, as witness The Railway Children. Jeffries' Baxter is a notable exception to this rule, though, as with his other directorial efforts, he shows a keen sensitivity for the travails of troubled Read More

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Dorothy Alison, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger

Synopsis: The title character is a ghost, doomed to roam his mansion until an age-old mystery is solved. A widow Dorothy Alison and her two children are "hired" by the wraith-like Blunden to aid him in his sleuthing. Also joining in on the investigation are two ghostly kids, who'd been mistreated in life. Read More

Who Slew Auntie Roo?

Actors: Jacqueline Cowper, Charlotte Sayce, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: In this English film, a group of orphans visiting the home of a wealthy, retired singer (Shelley Winters) discover that the woman is hiding a disturbing secret. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy who cried wolf, Ziggy has been known to stretch the truth and exaggerate. He is unable to convince the adults that he witnessed the killing. The murderous cops are soon on Read More

The Railway Children

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain Cuthbertson, Jenny Agutter

Synopsis: British character actor Lionel Jeffries both directed The Railway Children and adapted its screenplay from the novel by E. Nesbit. Dinah Sheridan plays the mother of three children who must live in reduced circumstances when her husband (Ian Cuthbertson), a government official, is arrested on a Read More

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

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle

Synopsis: One of the stars of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film's composer and lyricist, Richard M.Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, in this big budget and bloodless children's fantasy musical, based on the children's book by James Bond author Ian Fleming. Van Dyke plays Read More

Camelot

Actors: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Joshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero in the lead roles originally portrayed on Broadway by Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet. The musical, based on T.H. White's The Read More

Those Fantastic Flying Fools

Actors: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying Fools (originally titled Blast-Off, and also released as Those Fantastic Flying Fools) is based very loosely on a Jules Verne novel. A 19th century British newspaper offers a Read More

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse, Barbara Harris, Hugh Griffith, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play. Wealthy Madame Rosepettle (Rosalind Russell) and 25-year-old Jonathan (Robert Morse) arrive at the Port Royal Hotel on a tiny Caribbean Read More

Drop Dead, Darling

Actors: Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan

Synopsis: This uneven black comedy went into production as My Last Duchess. It then went through three title changes, representing, in the words of historian Leslie Halliwell, "a descending order of wit": Arrividerci, Baby, Drop Dead, Darling, and You Just Kill Me! Tony Curtis plays a charming contemporary Read More

The Spy with a Cold Nose

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman

Synopsis: When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea that the dog has a highly sensitive bug in its stomach. This lively British espionage farce follows what happens after the dog becomes sick. It's a sticky situation, for if a 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

The Truth About Spring

Actors: Hayley Mills, John Mills, James MacArthur, Lionel Jeffries, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: An American widower and his 18-year-old daughter live on a Caribbean houseboat. Romance and adventure ensue when they invite the bored nephew of a millionaire to leave his uncle's yacht and stay with them. Though there is an immediate spark between the girl and her new friend, romance is delayed 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

The First Men in the Moon

Actors: Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer, Erik Chitty, Betty McDowall, Hugh McDermott

Synopsis: First Men in the Moon is an H.G. Welles cinemadaptation from director Nathan Juran. When scientists in the year 1964 are confused by evidence of a long-ago space flight, nonagenarian Arnold Bedford (Edward Judd) explains all. Back in 1899, Bedford, eccentric scientist Joseph Cavor (Lionel Read More

Murder Ahoy

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, William Mervyn, Joan Benham, Stringer Davis

Synopsis: The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an Agatha Christie original. The setting this time is a boat that has been purchased by a trusteeship to serve as a home for wayward kids. One of the trustees, Cecil Ffolly-Hardwicke (Henry Longhurst Read More

The Crimson Blade

Actors: Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley, June Thorburn, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: Its the Cavaliers vs. the Copperheads in this costume drama set during the 17th-century British Civil War. Our sympathies are supposed to be with Oliver Cromwell's underground troops--and they are, since the arrogant Cromwell isn't around to comprise his followers' heroism. Lionel Jeffries, loyal 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

Call Me Bwana

Actors: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries, Percy Herbert

Synopsis: It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether, who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent, basing his exploration of the African subcontinent on old diaries of his uncle. When an American space capsule crashes in an uncharted region of Africa, Merriwether, based on his alleged Read More

The Wrong Arm of the Law

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Bill Kerr, Davy Kaye, Nanette Newman

Synopsis: When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket. Benevolent burglar Peter Sellers, the man in charge of all "respectable" crooks in town (he even offers such incentives as a vacation plan and filmed training sessions!), sets about Read More

Kill Or Cure

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries, Moira Redmond

Synopsis: Terry-Thomas stars in this British comedy as J. Barker-Rynde, a detective assigned to look into some dirty dealings at a health club. The supporting cast includes Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, and Dennis Price. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hellions

Actors: Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Jamie Uys, Marty Wilde, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: In this western-style film, set in South Africa, circa the late 1900s, a local police sergeant finds himself pursued by the "The Hellions"--a man and his four sons. Unfortunately for the sergeant, the townspeople will not help to save him and his wife. He ignores his wife's plea that he quit his Read More

Operation Snatch

Synopsis: A British officer must save the Barbary apes on Gibralter at all costs in this WW II farce. He does this, because it is believed that if the apes leave the rock, Britain will fall. The trouble begins when the only male ape dies. To save the rest, the officer and his side-kick sneak in to Zurich Read More

The Notorious Landlady

Actors: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood

Synopsis: This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem. After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes Read More

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys

Synopsis: In this British comedy drama, a dotty old widow finally finds a new love and happiness until her unruly sons bust out of prison and beg her to hide them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fanny

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni

Synopsis: Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy". Pagnol's original, titled Cesar, ends with protagonist Marius returning to the sea, leaving behind his lover Fanny and their son. Expanding upon the Read More

Jazz Boat

Actors: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge, Bernie Winters

Synopsis: This is a crime-comedy-musical romance by director Ken Hughes that has an identity problem. Bert (Anthony Newley) is an electrician who gives the wrong people a "song and dance" about his supposed expertise as a cat burglar and now he has to pay the piper. The gang of young thieves brings him into Read More

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Actors: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a great extent from actual court records, recounts Wilde's late 19th century libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury. The author loses, whereupon he himself is tried for Read More

Life Is a Circus

Actors: Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold, Charlie Naughton

Synopsis: This zany film marks the screen debut of Britain's popular comedy troupe, The Crazy Gang. The story begins as the gang are busy sweeping up for the almost bankrupt circus they work for. The owner of a rival carnival endeavors to put them out of business for good. The Crazies manage to foil his Read More

Two-Way Stretch

Actors: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Peter Sellers stars as an inmate in a "model prison" run by Maurice Denham. Though Sellers is disinclined to escape (he's never been as comfortable in his life), he is convinced to do so by phony vicar Wilfred Hyde-White, who breaks into jail to outline a robbery scheme. Hyde-White's plan is to Read More

Let's Get Married

Actors: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, Hermione Baddeley, James Booth

Synopsis: Released in the US in 1963, the British Let's Get Married was actually filmed three years earlier. Anthony Newley plays a medical student who buckles under pressure. Hoping to get accustomed to dealing with people, he takes a job as a delivery boy. While thus employed, he meets and marries model Anne Aubrey 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

Tarzan the Magnificent

Actors: Gordon Scott, Betta St. John, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Gordon Scott's fifth and last appearance as Tarzan came in this 1960 installment of the long-running movie series featuring the adventures of the legendary ape man. Neither Jane nor son Boy appear in the film. Tarzan is hired to escort a hardened criminal, Coy Banton (Jock Mahoney), through the Read More

Idle on Parade

Actors: William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, Sidney James

Synopsis: The otherwise routine story and themes of this comedy are greatly balanced by talents of Anthony Newley as Jeep Jackson, a singing idol called up to serve in the British army and Lionel Jeffries as Bertie, a fussbudget adjutant. One of Jackson's superior officers is the brash Sgt. Lush (William Bendix Read More

The Nun's Story

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one point she is nearly killed by a mental patient (Colleen Dewhurst) -- Sister Luke perseveres. Sent as a nurse to the Belgian Read More

Bobbikins

Actors: Max Bygraves, Shirley Jones, Steven Stocker, Billie Whitelaw, Barbara Shelley

Synopsis: A full thirty years before Look Who's Talking would hit the screens with its verbose little infant, Max Bygraves and Shirley Jones starred in this routine comedy about a talking baby. Little Bobbikins (Steven Stocker) is the 14-month-old son of Benjamin and Betty (Bygraves and Jones) who is Read More

Up the Creek

Actors: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Vera Day, Liliane Sottane

Synopsis: Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an inept railroad stationmaster, the hero of the remake, Lt. Fairweather David Tomlinson, is an inept naval officer. Transferred to the HMS Berkeley, a decrepit WW2-vintage Read More

The Revenge of Frankenstein

Actors: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn

Synopsis: He may be calling himself "Dr. Stein," but the audience isn't fooled: that popular general practitioner (Peter Cushing) in the mittel-European village of Carlsbruck is none other than our old friend, Victor Frankenstein. No one seems unduly concerned when the patients in a charity clinic begin Read More

Nowhere to Go

Actors: George Nader, Bernard Lee, Bessie Love, Maggie Smith, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: Influential British critic Kenneth Tynan neglected to review Nowhere to Go--perhaps because he directed it himself. Maggie Smith makes her film debut as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of George Nader. Nader is a fugitive from justice who can expect no help from Read More

Orders to Kill

Actors: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Irene Worth

Synopsis: The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he, originally a pilot, is grounded during WW II. He is trained to assassinate a Paris lawyer suspected of colluding with the Nazis. During his rigorous training for the killing, the Read More

Girls at Sea

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Ronald Shiner, Alan White, Michael Hordern, Anne Kimbell

Synopsis: The celebrated stage farce 3DThe Middle Watch3D was the basis of the maritime comedy 3DGirls at Sea3D. While briefly in port, the British battleship 3DScotia3D, hosts a wild party, brimming over with wine, women and more women. Three of the female revellers-Mary (Ann Kimball), Jill (Mary Read More

Dunkirk

Actors: John Mills, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough, Robert Urquhart, Meredith Edwards, Anthony Nicholls, Ray Jackson

Synopsis: One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across the English channel. One party of British soldiers becomes detached Read More

Further Up the Creek!

Actors: David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role of Lt. Fairweather, skipper of the not-so-good ship Aristotle. This time, however, Fairweather's enterprisingly larcenous bos'un is played not by Peter Sellers but by Read More

Behind the Mask

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton, Carl Möhner, Niall MacGinnis, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Distinguished British actress Vanessa Redgrave makes her feature film debut in this hospital-set drama that chronicles the deadly rivalry between two head surgeons. She is one of the surgeons. She and her competitor have radically different ideas about how the hospital should be run. The film Read More

Law and Disorder

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, Elizabeth Sellars, George Coulouris, Joan Hickson

Synopsis: A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in this bright British comedy. Percy Brand (Michael Redgrave) is an all-purpose con artist and small-time crook who makes a good living on the wrong side of the law but often Read More

Hour of Decision

Synopsis: In this thriller, a newspaper columnist is killed and another reporter looks into it. He is shocked when his investigation implicates his own wife. Unable to believe this, he begins a more thorough search to reveal the true killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Up in the World

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson, Jerry Desmonde, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Colin Gordon

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a luckless London window washer loses his job and ends up working in an enormous country estate that boasts more windows than any place in England. Things get worse when the self-centered heir of the manor forces the worker to accompany him to a local hotspot. ~ Iotis Read More

The Vicious Circle

Synopsis: Originally released in Britain as The Circle, The Vicious Circle was based on the BBC TV series The Brass Candlestick. John Mills plays a respected doctor who comes home one evening to find the body of a murdered actress of his acquaintance. The police are summoned, and the murder weapon is found Read More

The High Terrace

Actors: Dale Robertson, Lois Maxwell, Derek Bond, Eric Pohlmann, Mary Laura Wood

Synopsis: In this British mystery, set backstage at a theater, a beautiful actress is starring in a successful playwright's newest hit. Unbeknownst to her, the writer is in love with her. Because he is jealous of all those who might steal her away, he refuses to allow her to break her contract and work in Read More

Decision Against Time

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Gerard Lohan, Walter Fitzgerald, John Stratton, Eddie Byrne

Synopsis: Inspired in part by David Lean'sThe Sound Barrier, Decision Against Time stars Jack Hawkins as a bold but cautious test pilot. If he wants to keep his job, Hawkins must prove the efficacy of an accident-prone airplane prototype. The pilot is plagued with Earthbound problems as well, personified by Read More

All at Sea

Actors: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest aqueous movement makes him unbearably ill. The man's illustrious family history is witnessed from the Stone Age via flashback. To preserve his family's name and his own honor Read More

Doctor at Large

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dandy Nichols, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton

Synopsis: The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back in his old stamping grounds at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital, Sparrow misses his chance at becoming chief surgeon when he crosses swords with the formidable Sir Lancelot Read More

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Actors: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Lisa Gastoni, Sabrina

Synopsis: Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot behave themselves, their headmistress (Alastair Sim in drag!) has been thrown in jail, and the school is surrounded by police and army troops. The Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: In this thriller a woman witnesses a robbery, runs away from the scene and is rundown by a bus. The two thieves, realizing that she could get them arrested, sneak into the hospital where they plan to kill her. Their repeated attempts all end in failure. At the end, one of the thieves, feeling 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

Bhowani Junction

Actors: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews

Synopsis: Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for independence from Britain, the film begins with Gardner returning to her native land after spending several years in England. Her true loyalties, and her own sense of who she Read More

Lust for Life

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs Read More

All for Mary

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson, David Hurst

Synopsis: Jill Day plays Mary in this frolicksome British comedy. While on vacation in Switzerland, Mary finds herself the object of several tourists' affection. Two of the men, Nigel Patrick and David Tomlinson, are British. The third, Leo McKern, is a wealthy, boorish Greek. Throughout the film, the Read More

Jumping for Joy

Actors: Stanley Holloway, A.E. Matthews, Tony Wright, Alfie Bass

Synopsis: Ribald music hall comedian Frankie Howerd stars in the British laughspinner Jumping for Joy. Set in the rarefied world of dog racing, the film stars Howerd as trackboy Willie, who is unceremoniously booted from his job. Teaming up with con artist Jack (Stanley Holloway), Willie decides to get even Read More

The Colditz Story

Actors: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes

Synopsis: During World War II, the impenetrable Colditz castle in Germany was selected as the site for a POW camp. The Germans reason that, since Colditz has been virtually impossible to get into or out of for centuries, it is ideal for housing the most contentious allied prisoners. British officer John Mills 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

No Smoking

Synopsis: In this comedy, a clever chemist develops a pill that cures smokers of nicotine addiction. Realizing the marketing potential, he makes his discovery public, but encounters strong resistance from the international tobacco industry, which does its best to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

The Black Rider

Synopsis: The British The Black Rider was inevitably listed as a "mystery" or "drama" in TV Guide back in the 1950s and 1960s. Don't you believe it! The star is former juvenile actor Jimmy Hanley, who plays a young, bright-eyed (but not necessarily bright) reporter. Hanley investigates reports that a Read More

Will Any Gentleman?

Actors: George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Jon Pertwee, James Hayter, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: Based on the stage farce by Vernon Sylvanie, Will Any Gentleman? stars George Cole as milquetoast bank clerk Henry Sterling. While attending a music hall show, Sterling accidentally falls under the spell of stage hypnotist Mendoza (Alan Badel). Undergoing a complete change of character, Sterling Read More