Martita Hunt Filmography

The Best House in London

Actors: David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Dany Robin, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This comedy chronicles what happens when secretary John Bird appoints Sir Francis Leybourne to run the place. Bird then has his lovely girlfriend Babbette act as the Madame. Sir Read More

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Actors: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Noël Coward, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day Read More

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Sr., Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: Meredith Willson's second Broadway hit (the first and biggest was The Music Man) proved a lucrative vehicle for the equally unsinkable Debbie Reynolds. Based on a true story, the film casts Debbie as hoydenish Molly Brown, who wangles her way into Denver High Society when she marries "overnight Read More

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first introducing the two Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) is the dreamer, and Jacob (Karl Boehm) is the practical one, and between them, some marvelous fairy tales develop. Read More

I Like Money

Actors: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Mr. Topaze was based on a play by Marcel Pagnol, previously filmed twice before with John Barrymore and Fernandel. Peter Sellers stars as a French college professor, known far and wide for his integrity. He refuses to improve a grade on the paper of one student, whose influential father sees to it Read More

Song without End

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are dubbed with another's singing voice, but this Read More

Bottoms Up

Actors: Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Martita Hunt, Sydney Tafler, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: British comic actor Jimmy Edwards demonstrates his versatility in Bottoms Up by playing a character named Jimmy Edwards. Actually, it's Professor Jim Edwards, doctor of dunderheads. In the tradition of Will Hay, Edwards tries to maintain decorum in the boys' school where he serves as headmaster Read More

The Brides of Dracula

Actors: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, David Peel

Synopsis: Hammer Films and director Terence Fisher followed the excellent Horror of Dracula with this well-made, richly-colored sequel which suffers only from the conspicuous lack of Dracula himself -- since Horror's Christopher Lee had declined participation in further Dracula sequels for the time being. Read More

Me and the Colonel

Actors: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: In this drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he commanders the car of a Polish colonel who hates Jews. In order to save himself, the colonel helps the fellow escape. En route, they pick up the officer's girl friend. Trouble Read More

Les Espions

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Gerard Sety, Véra Clouzot, Sam Jaffe, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Filmed in 1955, Les Espions (The Spies) was based on Midnight Patient, a novel by Egon Hostowsky. The scene is a rundown sanitarium, which is subtly but thoroughly taken over by a ruthless gang of international spies. One of the new "patients" is purportedly the inventor of a new nuclear explosive Read More

Three Men in a Boat

Actors: David Tomlinson, Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, Shirley Eaton, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular British comedian Jimmy Edwards, up-and-coming leading man Laurence Harvey and stalwart character actor David Tomlinson. Escaping their dull weekday pursuit, the three pals Read More

Dangerous Exile

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the opulent British swashbuckler Dangerous Exile. Louis Jourdan stars as the Duc de Beauvais, who manages, at great personal sacrifice, to smuggle the son (Richard O'Sullivan) of Read More

Bonjour Tristesse

Actors: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot, Geoffrey Horne, Jean Kent, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the Read More

The Admirable Crichton

Actors: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Paradise Lagoon is the American release title of the British The Admirable Crichton. In this Technicolor adaptation of James M. Barrie's oft-filmed stage play, Kenneth More stars as Crichton, the super-efficient butler for a family of haughty British aristocrats. Though More is true master of the Read More

The March Hare

Actors: Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Martita Hunt, Cyril Cusack, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Set in Ireland, The March Hare stars Terence Morgan as Sir Charles Hare, a wastrelly aristocrat who gambles away his family fortune. About to be evicted from his ancestral racing stables, Hare decides to stay on when he's mistaken for a groom by the new American owner's pretty daughter Pat Maguire Read More

Anastasia

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman plays a would-be suicide who is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner's motives are far from altruistic; together with a group of Russian cohorts, he hopes to Read More

King's Rhapsody

Actors: Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: King's Rhapsody was the second screen teaming of beloved British star Anna Neagle and Hollywood's "bad boy" Errol Flynn. Based on a musical play by Ivor Novello, the film casts Flynn as a European prince who falls in love with commoner Neagle. The prince pulls an "Edward VIII" and goes into exile Read More

Folly to Be Wise

Actors: Alastair Sim, Roland Culver, Elizabeth Allan, Martita Hunt, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain Paris, an army chaplain who endeavors to organize a camp show for the troops. Practically everyone with whom the Captain comes in contact is an "expert" on the sort of Read More

Melba

Actors: Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley, John McCallum, John Justin, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: American opera and musical-comedy soprano Patrice Munsel plays the title role in this filmed biography of famed Australian diva Nellie Melba. The story begins on Nellie's father's cattle farm, where she grew up under her given name of Nelly Mitchell. While studying in Paris with the great Madame Read More

It Started in Paradise

Actors: Martita Hunt, Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow, Ian Hunter, Brian Worth

Synopsis: ...And it ended in London. This backstage yarn stars Jane Hylton as a talented dress designer who lets nothing get in the way of her success. As she rises in the fashion world, she loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down. Read More

Treasure Hunt

Synopsis: This comedy is set in an Irish mansion and centers on its enigmatic owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tonight at 8:30

Actors: Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Bill Fraser

Synopsis: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name. Several rotating playlets were presented in the original Tonight at 8:30, most of them starring Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. The film version utilizes Read More

The Story of Robin Hood

Actors: Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter, James Robertson Justice, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Better known as The Story of Robin Hood, this colorful costume adventure was the second made-in-Britain production for Hollywood's Walt Disney. Avoiding the familiar episodes covered in previous "Robin Hood" films, this Disney effort still manages to adhere to the basic chronology. Richard Todd Read More

The Fan

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still beautiful Mrs. Erlynne (Madeleine Carroll), well-known for her romantic adventures, has cast her eye upon Lord Windermere (Richard Greene), who is married to Lady Windermere (Jeanne Crain Read More

My Sister and I

Actors: Hazel Court, Helen Goss, Patrick Holt, Sally Ann Howes

Synopsis: There's dirty work backstage in the British melodrama My Sister and I. Sally Ann Howes plays Robina Adams, an aspiring actress who lands a job at the provincial repertory company managed by Miss Havisham-like Mrs. Camelot (Martita Hunt). Still carrying a torch for her late husband, Mrs. Camelot Read More

Anna Karenina

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge

Synopsis: This 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was produced in England by Alexander Korda, and released in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Vivien Leigh plays the title role, a 19th-century Russian gentlewoman married to Czarist official Ralph Richardson. Though her marriage is not intolerable Read More

So Evil My Love

Actors: Ann Todd, Ray Milland, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Moira Lister, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in London. Based on a novel by Joseph Shearing, whose previous Gothic romances included Moss Rose and Blanche Fury, the film stars Ray Milland in his first (but hardly his last) Read More

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

Actors: Yvonne Arnaud, Felix Aylmer, Robert Beaumont, Madge Brindley, Ronald Frankau

Synopsis: Firmly in the fantasy groove previously plowed by such films as The Canterville Ghost and The Time of Their Lives is the 1947 British comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square. Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer play a pair of fatuous Colonel Blimp military types, whose efforts to shorten the war results Read More

The Little Ballerina

Actors: Yvonne Marsh, Doreen Richards

Synopsis: Prolific British second-feature director Lewis Gilbert made his cinematic debut with The Little Ballerina. Yvonne Marsh stars as a girl of modest means who hopes to get into the Sadlers-Wells ballet troupe. Her only hope is to win a scholarship, and to this end she pleads directly to the troupe's Read More

Great Expectations

Actors: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations Read More

The Wicked Lady

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Enid Stamp Taylor

Synopsis: In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve the tedium of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Meeting up with the rogue Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason), the two begin a relationship. When Read More

Welcome, Mr. Washington

Actors: Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart, Peggy Cummins, Leslie E. Bradley, Roy Emerton

Synopsis: Like the better-known (and more popular) A Canterbury Tale, Welcome Mr. Washington is a sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant dramatization of what happened when American troops "invaded" England during WW II. Dismissed as "overpaid, oversexed and over here," the Yanks face some hostility while Read More

The Man in Grey

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Raymond Lovell

Synopsis: A set of flashbacks to 19th century London provide the action in this British wartime film, in which a wealthy girl (Phyllis Calvert) becomes friends with a young waif (Margaret Lockwood) while at school. The waif later becomes a governess for the girl, but betrays their relationship by having an Read More

Sabotage at Sea

Synopsis: Set during WW II, this drama follows the travails of a cargo ship captain as he launches a desperate search of his vessel for a possible saboteur. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Talk About Jacqueline

Actors: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, Joyce Howard, Roland Culver, John Warwick

Synopsis: Two sisters stick by each other through thick and thin in this drama. The elder sister has a rather sexually checkered past. The tale begins as she heads for the French Riviera in search of more adventure and meets a charming man who knows nothing about her notorious past. They end up getting Read More

Lady from Lisbon

Synopsis: In this British espionage comedy, an opportunistic South American woman will do anything to get her hands on a copy of the Mona Lisa. When she hears the Nazis have it, she offers to do some spying in Lisbon in exchange for the painting. Suddenly, many different 'Mona Lisas' begin to surface. After Read More

A Voice in the Night

Actors: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley, Derek Farr, Joyce Howard

Synopsis: In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to support the oppressive, increasingly brutal movement. At first he does nothing as his friends are persecuted and his wife becomes increasingly enamored with the party's Read More

Wings and the Woman

Synopsis: Wings and the Woman was a reverent (read: dull) British biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy, whose fame in the 1930s is such that songs are written about her and a worldwide fan club is organized. See RKO Book. Ms. Johnson's fame exacts a toll on her marriage to Read More

Quiet Wedding

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding. The film version, scripted by Terence Rattigan and Anton de Grunewald, tones down some of the more censorable elements of the play, though not enough to completely Read More

The Seventh Survivor

Synopsis: This wartime drama is set during WW II and centers on 6 survivors of a torpedo attack adrift in a lifeboat. One of them is a Nazi spy who is carrying classified information stolen from the Allies. The survivors are joined by a British counter-spy who reveals the Nazi's true identity. ~ Sandra Read More

The Strangler

Synopsis: The Strangler is the American title of the British East of Piccadilly. London's Soho district is terrorized by a strangler who favors silk stockings as his method of disposal. All evidence points to American millionaire George Pughe. Thanks to the diligence of girl reporter Judy Campbell, Pughe is Read More

House of Mystery

Actors: Kenneth Kent, Judy Kelly, Peter Murray Hill, Walter Rilia, Ruth Maitland

Synopsis: The modest but intriguing British melodrama At the Villa Rose was released in the U.S. by Monogram and given the more prosaic title House of Mystery. A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those Read More

East of Piccadilly

Actors: Judy Campbell, Sebastian Shaw, Henry Edwards, George Pughe

Synopsis: Possibly inspired by the 1937 British melodrama They Drive By Night, East of Piccadilly is an austere shocker set in London. Novelist Sebastian Shaw finds himself in a "Nick and Nora" relationship with girl reporter Judy Campbell, as together they seek the whereabouts of a silk-stocking killer. Read More

Tilly of Bloomsbury

Synopsis: In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her mother owns a boarding house and at first, the socialite turns up his blue-blooded nose at them. But then he begins learning more about their lives and gradually changes his Read More

Young Man's Fancy

Actors: Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Seymour Hicks, Martita Hunt, Edward Rigby

Synopsis: In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to a circus and ends up with a lively human cannonball in his life. He immediately falls for the daring young performer and they end up eloping and going to Paris to live out Read More

The Good Old Days

Actors: Max Miller, Hal Walters, H.F. Maltby, Martita Hunt, Kathleen Gibson

Synopsis: In this British comedy, set in London during the 1840s, an acting troupe aspires to high-society, but despite their best efforts are consistently rebuffed and consider little more than lowly beggars. As they endeavor to entertain people, they are arrested and put into prison. Later the performers Read More

Old Mother Riley Joins Up

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, the boisterous Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Middle Watch

Synopsis: In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two glamorous women are still aboard after they set sail and cannot turn back. To protect them, and himself, he hides the unwilling stowaways in his quarters. Unfortunately, they are Read More

A Girl Must Live

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, George Robey, Hugh Sinclair

Synopsis: A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer). Both feel that they could live most comfortably off the money inherited by the Earl of Pangborough (Hugh Sinclair) a handsome but unworldly nobleman. Despite the most Read More

Trouble Brewing

Synopsis: Most of British regional comedian George Formby's vehicles were released in the US through Columbia Pictures; somehow Trouble Brewing slipped through the cracks. Bucktoothed Formby plays a newspaper printer who wins big at the racetrack. Unfortunately he is paid off in counterfeit bills. To avoid Read More

The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

Synopsis: In this thriller, a playwright overhears a gang of men plotting a kidnapping and enlists the assistance of a detective to investigate them. They soon find the ring is fronted by a bogus employment agency that sends "clients" to check out potential victims. Action ensues as they endeavor to stop Read More

Strange Boarders

Actors: Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers, Ronald Adam, C.V. France

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a secret service agent is assigned to investigate the death of a bag lady who was discovered to be carrying highly classified airplane blueprints. He ends up taking a room at the boarding house where she lived. There he soon discovers that all of her housemates are part of Read More

Everything Happens to Me

Synopsis: As cleaner-salesman/electioneer Miller learns of the actions of evil Maltby in running the orphanage, he turns his loyalties to the kind Burtwell. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Prison without Bars

Actors: Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best, Barry Barnes, Martita Hunt, Margaret Yarde

Synopsis: In this European drama, a girl in reform school finds herself falling in love with school physician, but must compete with the liberal thinking superintendent for the doctor's affection. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Good Morning, Boys

Actors: Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt, Fewlass Llewellyn

Synopsis: The magnificent Will Hay re-creates his vaudeville characterization of a supercilious schoolmaster in Good Morning Boys. Donning pince-nez and academic garb, Hay is cast as Dr. Benjamin Twist, headmaster of a seedy boarding school. Unbeknownst to Twist, an escaped convict has taken up residence in Read More

The Mill on the Floss

Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Fay Compton, James Mason

Synopsis: It's a tossup as to which George Eliot novel has most often been adapted to the screen, though it appears that Mill on the Floss has nosed out Silas Marner. Set in early 19th century England, the story focuses on the long-standing rivalry between two Lincolnshire families. The animosity stems from Read More

Where There's a Will

Synopsis: In this French crime comedy, the headmaster of a school located near a prison is inadvertently involved in stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. The trouble begins with one of his students who is, unbeknownst to the headmaster, the son of a famous art thief. The father has been planning the Read More

Farewell Again

Actors: Leslie Banks, Flora Robson, Sebastian Shaw, Patricia Hilliard, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before Read More

Second Best Bed

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a middle-aged fellow set in his ways marries a sweet young thing. After the wedding, he is surprised to discover that she is not willing to give in to his desire that she take the "second best bed." Later he begins flirting with another while his wife heads for Monte Carlo Read More

Pot Luck

Actors: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Diana Churchill, Gordon James

Synopsis: Another of the delightful Aldwych Theater farces, Pot Luck once again teams those flawless farceurs Tom Wa