Maurice DenhamFilmography

Memento Mori

Actors: Stephanie Cole, Renée Ashershon, Michael Hordern, Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), the British TV drama Memento Mori boasts an impressive cast of veterans, including Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack, Sir Michael Hordern, Renee Ashershon, and Maggie Smith. The story concerns an eccentric group of senior citizens who Read More

Monsignor Quixote

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Graham Greene, Alec Guinness stars as the title character, a descendent of Don Quixote. After he is appointed monsignor, he sets off with a leftist politician (played by Leo McKern) on an adventure reminiscent of the Cervantes novel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Behaving Badly

Actors: Judi Dench, Douglas Hodge, Gwen Watford, Ronald Pickup, Joely Richardson

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Catherine Heath, the four-part British miniseries Behaving Badly starred Judi Dench as Bridget, a typically dutiful upper middle-class wife and mother. Upon learning that her husband is a philanderer, Bridget is shocked but willing to forgive. But when hubby walks out, she Read More

Dog It Was That Died

Tears in the Rain

Actors: Sharon Stone, Christopher Cazenove, Leigh Lawson, Anna Massey, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The romantic melodrama tells the story of an American beauty who romantic journeys to England in obedience to her late mother's last request. There she encounters the son of her mother's former beau and romantic sparks fly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

84 Charing Cross Road

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean de Baer, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 Read More

Mr. Love

Actors: Barry Jackson, Maurice Denham, Margaret Tyzack, Linda Marlowe, Christina Collier

Synopsis: Another Man Who Loved Women with a slightly different plot, this routine story opens with the funeral of a local projectionist and gardener, Donald Lovelace (Barry Jackson). His widow and daughter are surprised at the number of women who turn out to mourn Donald's passing. Soon the truth about his Read More

Minder on the Orient Express

The Chain

Actors: Herbert Norville, Denis Lawson, Rita Wolf, Maurice Denham, Nigel Hawthorne, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern, Warren Mitchell, David Troughton, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters, another moves in, and so it goes all the way up to the lavish mansioned owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle starts all over again when McKern, wishing to be Read More

Love Song

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma, Episode 4

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Denham, Kevin McNally, Edwin Richfield

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Twin Dilemma," the Doctor (Colin Baker) must prevent the giant slug Mestor (Edwin Richfield) from polluting the universe with millions of Gastropod eggs. But will the Doctor; his companion, Peri (Nicola Bryant); and twin mathematicians Romulus and Read More

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma, Episode 2

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Denham, Kevin McNally, Edwin Richfield

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Twin Dilemma," the Doctor (Colin Baker), not yet accustomed to his new body, briefly goes into exile on a tiny moon, accompanied by his friend, Peri (Nicola Bryant). No sooner have they arrived than they find themselves at the mercy of a gang of Read More

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma, Episode 3

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Denham, Kevin McNally, Edwin Richfield

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Twin Dilemma," the Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) have been abducted by the giant slug Mestor (Edwin Richfield), who has also kidnapped twin mathematicians Romulus and Remus Sylvest (Gavin and Andrew Conrad). Mestor intends to force Read More

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma, Episode 1

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Denham, Kevin McNally, Edwin Richfield

Synopsis: Colin Baker -- green shoes, orange spats, striped trousers, and all -- steps into the role of the newly regenerated Doctor in the four-part adventure "The Twin Dilemma." In order to accustom himself to his new body, the Doctor hopes to take a brief sabbatical. This, alas, is not to be, as both the Read More

Z Dalekiego Kraju

Actors: Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow, Warren Clarke, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Premiering on American television on December 29, 1981, From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II was originally an Italian/British coproduction, made in cooperation with Film Polski. Actually, we see very little of the Pope -- in fact, John Paul II (played by Cezary Morawski) is not yet in his papal Read More

Julia

Actors: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett Read More

Shout at the Devil

Actors: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, René Kolldehoff

Synopsis: Peter R. Hunt directed this World War I action-adventure, based upon the novel by Wilbur Smith. Roger Moore and Lee Marvin team up as Sebastian, a witty and cosmopolitan Englishman, and Flynn O'Flynn, a boozy and ornery Irish American, who decide to blow up a German battleship that has been hidden Read More

Luther

Actors: Stacy Keach

Synopsis: Adapted for the screen by Edward Anhalt from the play by John Osborne, Luther stars Stacy Keach as religious leader and "heretic" Martin Luther. In minimalist fashion, the film traces Luther's disillusionment with the Catholic Church, and his eventual spearheading of the Reformation movement. Read More

The Day of the Jackal

Actors: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander

Synopsis: In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox Read More

Countess Dracula

Actors: Nike Arrighi, Patience Collier, Maurice Denham, Lesley-Anne Down, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Eles

Synopsis: Polish actress Ingrid Pitt became a cult figure for her portrayal of the notorious Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory in this Hammer horror film. Bathory finds that bathing in the blood of virgins restores her youthful beauty, and she enlists her servant (Nigel Green in a standout performance) Read More

Nicholas and Alexandra

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Alexander Knox, Michael Redgrave, Alan Dalton, Ralph Neville, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth, Jack Hawkins, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) and his German bride Alexandra (Janet Suzman) at their 1894 wedding. Though Nicholas is devoted to Alexandra, the Russian populace is less politely inclined to having Read More

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Actors: Cindy Burrows, Emma Schlesinger, Kimi Tallmadge, Patrick Thornberry, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding but does not offer them everything they want. In this sympathetic and psychologically precise drama, Alexandra Greville (Glenda Jackson), "Alex" to her friends, has a Read More

The Virgin and the Gypsy

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

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

La Piscine

Actors: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin

Synopsis: Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she receives as call from the record executive Harry (Maurice Ronet). He arrives with his nubile young daughter (Jane Birkin). Read More

Thank You All Very Much

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Michael Coles, John Standing, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Eleanor Bron

Synopsis: Also titled A Touch of Love, this British drama concerns a woman who decides to keep and raise a baby born out of wedlock. Sandy Dennis stars as Rosamund Stacey, a graduate student who has an affair with a television broadcaster, George (Ian McKellen). When she learns that she is pregnant, her Read More

Some Girls Do

Actors: Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar, James Villiers, Vanessa Howard

Synopsis: Detective Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called on to investigate the activities of his arch enemy Carl Peterson (James Villiers). Carl tries to stop the British from testing a new and improved fighter plane. Drummond travels to Morocco to check into rumors of attempted tampering and espionage by Carl Read More

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

Midas Run

Actors: Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire, Ralph Richardson, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for prominent career advancements. John Pedley (Fred Astaire) is the agent who has been passed over for knighthood one too many times for his liking. He proposes a plan to university Read More

Attack on the Iron Coast

Actors: Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Major James Wilson (Lloyd Bridges) must lead his troops across the English channel in the D-day invasion of Normandy. He trains his regulars for the invasion knowing that many, if not all, may never survive the assault. Wilson is plagued by memories of previous missions that turned out to be Read More

Danger Route

Actors: Richard Johnson, Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms, Diana Dors

Synopsis: British agents drop like skeets in this convoluted espionage film. Jonas Wilde (Richard Johnson) is a successful British secret agent who wants to hang up his license to kill and retire. His superior, Canning (Harry Andrews), agrees to accept his resignation if he agrees to one last case Read More

Negatives

Actors: Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson, Stephen Lewis

Synopsis: An unmarried London couple tries to interject some life into their romantic pursuits in this uneven mystery. Theo (Peter McEnery) and Vivien (Glenda Jackson) take over the used furniture store owned by Theo's father, who is dying of cancer. Reingard (Diane Cliento) is the German neighbor who Read More

The Long Duel

Actors: Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Andrew Keir, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: A lawmen who is sworn to bring a rebel to justice finds himself developing a great respect and admiration for his quarry in this period drama. In the 1920s, the British Raj still rule India, and Freddy Young (Trevor Howard) is a English police officer whose duty is to keep order among the native Read More

Torture Garden

Actors: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate Read More

After the Fox

Actors: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Lydia Brazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Tino Buazzelli, Victor Mature

Synopsis: With Peter Sellers as star, Neil Simon as screenwriter, and Vittorio DeSica as director, how could After the Fox miss? Miss it did, however--though the film, patchy and inconsistent though it might be, definitely has its moments. Sellers plays an Italian master thief who can't seem to stay out of Read More

Night Caller from Outer Space

Actors: John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines, Jack Watson, Alfred Burke

Synopsis: In this British sci-fi thriller, a spacecraft from Ganymede, the moon of Jupiter, lands in a small community, and the alien visitors set out to find women. It seems that their population has become dangerously low and they need human females for breeding purposes. When the police begin receiving Read More

The Uncle

Actors: Rupert Davies, Brenda Bruce, Robert Duncan, William Marlowe, Ann Lynn

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Margaret Adams, this British drama features young Rupert Davies as David, a seven-year-old boy who is unsure of how to act around his seven-year-old nephew. He wants to be a child but feels he should take responsibility for his nephew. His confusion grows and he becomes Read More

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

Synopsis: A farmer turns to highway robbery because of the greed of the people around him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Talking to a Stranger

Synopsis: One of the most successful and influential British TV miniseries of the 1960s, Talking to a Stranger was a Rashomon-like experience written by John Hopkins. A traumatic weekend experience was recalled by four different members of the same family -- daughter, father, son, mother -- each with a Read More

The Nanny

Actors: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers, William Dix

Synopsis: In this thriller (which represented something of a departure for Hammer Films, noted for their gothic period pieces), Joey Fane (William Dix) has returned home after two years in an institution for mentally ill children. His sister drowned, and his family believes that Joey was to blame, despite Read More

Operation Crossbow

Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the Read More

The Alphabet Murders

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Guy Rolfe

Synopsis: Released in Great Britain as The ABC Murders, The Alphabet Murders stars a well-disguised Tony Randall as Agatha Christie's brilliant, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Unfortunately, director Frank Tashlin chooses to open the film with one of his Pirandelloian gimmicks by introducing Randall Read More

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the Read More

The Heroes of Telemark

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the manufacture of atomic weapons), under the order of the German military. Knut Straud (Richard Harris), a leading figure in the Read More

Hysteria

Actors: Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni

Synopsis: While visiting England, an American tourist (Robert Webber) is involved in an auto accident and suffers from amnesia. Upon his release from the hospital, he recuperates in a home paid for by a mysterious benefactor, where a dead body later appears in the shower. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Seventh Dawn

Actors: William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Tetsuro Tamba, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: In this drama, William Holden plays Ferris, an American soldier who led troops in Malaya during World War II. After the end of the war, Ferris opts to stay in Malaya to seek his fortune. He invests in land there and does quite well, but soon his new life with his girlfriend, a local girl named Read More

Downfall

Synopsis: Downfall is yet another hour-long entry in the seemingly endless series of British-filmed Edgar Wallace mysteries. Maurice Denham plays a brilliant attorney who arranges an acquittal for murderer T.P. McKenna. It's all part of Denham's master scheme to divest himself of his wife (Nadja Regan). Read More

The Very Edge

Actors: Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Nicole Maurey, Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: This melodramatic tale of a sexual assault on a married woman has a few implausible moments but is believably acted by Anne Heywood as Tracey, the victim, Richard Todd as her husband Lawrence, and Jack Hedley as the man from Scotland Yard sent to track down the violent attacker. Tracey is pregnant Read More

The Set-Up

Synopsis: The Set-Up was another in the long-running British second-feature series based on the works of Edgar Wallace. Maurice Denham plays a businessman who blackmails ex-con Brian Peck into committing a robbery. Peck is told to break into Denham's house and steal some valuable jewels so that the Read More

Paranoiac

Actors: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Liliane Brousse, Alexander Davion, Maurice Denham, Sheila Burrell

Synopsis: A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror masters Hammer Films. After the death of her parents, Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) would seem a safe bet to inherit their estate, but at the funeral, she's convinced that she Read More

Damn the Defiant!

Actors: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but compassionate captain of a British warship, engaged in the Napoleonic wars. Guinness is popular with his men, which is more than can be said for his new second-in-command Dirk Bogarde Read More

Loss of Innocence

Actors: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Jane Asher, Claude Nollier

Synopsis: A young Susannah York had her first lead role in this drama about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood. When her mother falls ill during a vacation in the French wine country, 16-year-old Joss Grey (York) is left to her own devices as she and her three younger siblings are left in the reluctant Read More

Invasion Quartet

Actors: Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, John Le Mesurier, Gregoire Aslan, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: It's probably no surprise that Invasion Quartet has four leading actors; what might be surprising, especially to the unwary war-film fan, is that film is a comedy. British funster Spike Milligan joins the sobersided Bill Travers, John LeMesurier and Gregoire Aslan; the foursome are undercover Read More

The Mark

Actors: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered by sex. After an affair with a woman his own age ends badly, Mark finds himself increasingly drawn to young girls, who he feels do not pose the same threat of emasculation Read More

Sink the Bismarck!

Actors: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Karel Stepanek, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. This film traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. Since one couldn't expect 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

Our Man in Havana

Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward

Synopsis: Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act Read More

The Captain's Table

Actors: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding high on the success of his 1956 A Town Like Alice. Captain Ebbs (John Gregson) brings a part of his freighter experience with him as he takes charge of an ocean liner for Read More

Curse of the Demon

Actors: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Athene Seyler, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: In this film, American Professor Dana Andrews investigates a devil-worshipping cult active in England. The cult has apparently been responsible for more than one death in recent months. When Andrews comes too close to the cult for comfort, the devil-worshipping leader slips a cursed parchment into Read More

Night of the Demon

Actors: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Athene Seyler, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Based on Montague R. James' classic shiver tale Casting the Runes, Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon) is an exercise in psychological terror. American Professor Dana Andrews investigates a devil-worshipping cult active in England. The cult has apparently been responsible for more than one Read More

Checkpoint

Actors: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy, this pulse-pounding race-car melodrama stars Anthony Steel as ambitious driver Bill Fraser. Stanley Baker costars as O'Donovan, the purchasing agent for unscrupulous auto magnate Warren Ingram (James Robertson Justice). O'Donovan has no reservations about resorting to murder to 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

23 Paces to Baker Street

Actors: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Van Johnson portrays a blind American writer living in London. Blessed with an acute hearing sense, Johnson overhears a kidnapping plot but neither his friends nor the authorities believe him, chalking up his story as the product of a writer's imagination. Disgruntled, Johnson vows to scuttle the Read More

Animal Farm

Synopsis: The British animation firm of John Halas and Joy Batchelor perform yeoman service in adapting George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm to the screen. As any high-school English student can tell you,the original 1945 novel was Orwell's spin on the rise and fall of the Communist myth. A group Read More

Simon and Laura

Actors: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Love, marriage and show business provide the basis of this lively comedy that centers on a husband and wife, who are chosen by television producers to embody the perfect married couple on an upcoming television series. The show is to be filmed and broadcast live from the home of Simon and Laura Read More

Doctor at Sea

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Brenda de Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his first job as ship's doctor on a freighter, Simon again runs afoul of James Robertson Justice, here cast not as the irascible Sir Lancelot Sprat but as ship's captain Hogg. Read More

Eight O'clock Walk

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Ian Hunter, Derek Farr, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The iniquities of circumstantial evidence are explored in the compact crime drama Eight O'Clock Walk. Because he was the last person to see her alive, and because his playful behavior could be misconstrued as harassment, London taxi driver Tom Manning (Richard Attenborough) is arrested for the Read More

The Million Pound Note

Actors: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis: Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by Mark Twain. Gregory Peck plays Henry Adams, an impecunious American living by his wits in London. Henry becomes the object of a wager between millionaire brothers Oliver and Read More

Carrington V.C.

Actors: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Laurence Naismith, Clive Morton, Mark Dignam

Synopsis: Dorothy and Campbell Christie's witty courtroom comedy/drama Carrington V.C. was given a classy screen treatment by director Anthony Asquith. David Niven stars as Major Carrington, a war hero who is "kicked upstairs" in peacetime. Compelled to use his own money for his expense account, Carrington Read More

The Purple Plain

Actors: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham, Ram Gopal, Lyndon Brook

Synopsis: An H.E. Bates novel was the source for this psychological wartime drama set in Burma. Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two comrades-in-arms crash in the Burmese wilds. The three men are forced to hack and crawl their way to safety, surrounded on all sides by the Japanese. Peck's subordinates don't Read More

The Malta Story

Actors: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Flora Robson, Renée Ashershon

Synopsis: The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents his photographs to the resident air officer (Jack Hawkins). The photos reveal that the Italians are planning a major invasion of the island. Low on fuel and men, the officer Read More

Both Sides of the Law

Synopsis: The philosophies and practices of London policewomen provide the basis of this exciting and interesting docu-drama that centers on three such women. The film is also known as Street Corner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Terror on a Train

Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams, Victor Maddern

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Terror on a Train, the British MGM production Time Bomb is brief, to the point, and so suspenseful it hurts. Glenn Ford stars as Peter Lyncourt, who during WW II had been in charge of a bomb demolition unit. As luck would have it, Lyncourt and his French wife Janine (Anne Vernon Read More

Project M7

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Muriel Pavlow

Synopsis: Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation research station. At the moment, the researchers are working on a revolutionary new aircraft, and competition to be first with the results is fierce. There's little love lost Read More

Traveller's Joy

Actors: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Yolande Donlan, Maurice Denham, Colin Gordon

Synopsis: Real-life Mr. and Mrs. John McCallum and Googie Withers star in Travellers Joy. McCallum and Withers are cast as Reggie and Bumble Pelham, a divorced couple living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm. Before they can leave for their native England, Reggie and Bumble must first pay their hotel bill. To Read More

No Highway in the Sky

Actors: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as Theodore Honey, a widower and single parent to 11-year-old Elspeth (Janette Scott). He's also an absent-minded engineer who has formed a scientific theory about metal Read More

Landfall

Actors: Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton, Charles Victor

Synopsis: Landfall takes place during the early portions of WWII. RAF pilot Rick (Michael Denison) is transferred to another squadron after sinking a British sub during a bombing raid. Disgraced, Rick has no one to turn to, save for sympathetic barmaid Mona (Patricia Plunkett). With her help, the pilot is Read More

A Boy, a Girl and A Bike

Actors: John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Patrick Holt, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The boy is Sam Walters (Patrick Holt). The girl is Susie Bates (future Avengers star Honor Blackman). The bike is one of several used by a British cycling club. Boy and girl have fun peddling about the countryside until the girl's pretty head is turned by David Howarth (John McCallum), a wealthy Read More

Once Upon a Dream

Actors: Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, Betty Lynne, David Horne

Synopsis: British film star Googie Withers took a break from the steamy melodramas that had previously been her specialty in Once Upon a Dream. Withers plays Carol Gilbert, happily married to Major Gilbert (Guy Middleton). One evening, Carol dreams of an extramarital affair with Gilbert's former aide Read More

Madness of the Heart

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Paul Dupuis, Kathleen Byron, Maxwell Reed, Thora Hird

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a London girl falls happily in love with a Frenchman and immediately goes blind. Convinced her affliction is a Divine punishment for her sins, she joins a convent. The good sisters know she does not belong there and gently convince her to leave. Shortly after returning to Read More

My Brother's Keeper

Actors: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, Bill Owen, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: Anticipating The Defiant Ones by nearly ten years, the British My Brother's Keeper concentrates on the exploits of two handcuffed-together escaped convicts. The protagonists are career criminal George Martin (Jack Warner) and terrified "first timer" Willie Stannard (George Cole). The film is one Read More

It's Not Cricket

Synopsis: In this comedy, two soldiers find themselves dishonorably discharged after they accidently allow a Nazi prisoner to escape. Later they open up a detective agency. They are constantly plagued by the Nazi who follows them on every case. In the climax, the trio plays a crazy cricket match using a Read More

Poet's Pub

Actors: Derek Bond, Rona Anderson, James Robertson Justice, John McLaren, Barbara Murray

Synopsis: British novelist Erik Linklater was well-represented in 1949, with adaptations of two of his best novels hitting the screen almost simultaneously. In Linklater's Poet's Pub, a rhyme-spinner named Saturday Keith (Derek Bond) assumes control of a rustic inn. All Keith wants is a little peace and Read More

The Spider and the Fly

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, Eric Portman, Edward Chapman, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not Read More

The Blue Lagoon

Actors: Jean Simmons, Susan Stranks, Donald Houston, Noel Purcell, Peter Jones, James Hayter, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more explicit, though it's hardly as racy as the 1980 Brooke Shields version. Two British children, Emmeline (Susan Stranks) and Michael (Peter Jones), are shipwrecked on a tropical Read More

Don't Ever Leave Me

Actors: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Hugh Sinclair, Linden Travers, Edward Rigby

Synopsis: The British Don't Ever Leave Me stars "cute" Jimmy Hanley as a would-be criminal who is dragooned into a kidnapping plot. Among the potential victims is teenaged Sheila Farlane (Petula Clark), the daughter of Shakespearean actor Michael Farlane (Hugh Sinclair). When the plan goes awry, Sheila and Read More

Easy Money

Actors: Frank Cellier, Petula Clark, Mabel Constanduros, Marjorie Fielding, Greta Gynt

Synopsis: Easy Money is a satire of that most venerated of all middle-class British traditions, the football pool. The film is divided into four separate episodes, illustrating the effects of the football pool on the "average chap." Among those who participate in the pool in hopes of winning the Read More

Miranda

Actors: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous mermaid. Rescued from a watery grave by the finny-tailed Miranda (Johns), handsome doctor Paul Marten (Griffith Jones) agrees under durress to take his lovely rescuer to Read More

Escape

Actors: Jacqueline Clarke, Peter Croft, Peggy Cummins, Cyril Cusack, Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis: In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a policeman. He pushes the abusive cop away during the tussle; the cop falls, hits his head, and dies. The former flier is promptly tried and given a three-year prison sentence. He Read More

Look Before You Love

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones, Norman Wooland, Phyllis Stanley, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Ann Markham (Margaret Lockwood) is an employee with the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Though ostensibly businesslike and intelligent, Ann can't help falling in love with irresponsible Charlie Kent (Griffith Jones). On their wedding day, Ann discovers that Charlie is on the lam from fraud Read More

Jassy

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Basil Sydney, Dermot Walsh, Linden Travers

Synopsis: Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her teeth-baring best as a tempestuous gypsy girl who is hired as a servant in an aristocratic 19th century household. Dennis Price is her handsome master, with whom she falls in love. Read More

The Peaceful Years

Actors: Emlyn Williams, Stuart Hibberd, Maurice Denham, James McKechnie, Peter Madden

Synopsis: Assembled for British theatrical consumption by Pathe Films, The Peaceful Years covers the era between WWI and WWII. The title is ironic: to the citizens of Manchuria, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia and Spain, the years were anything but peaceful. Producer Peter Baylis contrasts the starkness of "real Read More

Here Come the Huggetts

Actors: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark

Synopsis: The fictional Hugget Family makes the first of three film appearances in this domestic comedy from Great Britain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dulcimer Street

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray, Wylie Watson

Synopsis: Assembled by the reliable team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, London Belongs to Me stars Richard Attenborough as a young, full-of-beans boy looking for fun. Bursting into a staid, wearisome London neighborhood, Attenborough exhorts the others to get some kicks out of life. Unfortunately, his Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by Read More

Take My Life

Actors: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Edwards

Synopsis: Cinematographer Ronald Neame made his directorial debut with the 1947 murder melodrama Take My Life. When a Covent Garden violinist is found murdered, her ex-lover, show business manager Nicholas Talbot (Hugh Williams) finds himself under suspicion. The only person who believes that Talbot is Read More

Blanche Fury

Actors: Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Walter Fitzgerald, Suzanne Gibbs, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Blanche Fury combined two elements that were surefire moneymakers in postwar Britain: a brooding, Gothic-novel storyline and the dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger. Heroine Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) is an impoverished governess who marries into wealth and sets herself up as the mistress of a Read More

The Blind Goddess

Actors: Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Hugh Williams, Nora Swinburne

Synopsis: The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric Portman plays the private secretary to a celebrated public figure (Hugh Williams). Portman holds his boss in an esteem that borders on hero worship. But when his idol is brought into court, the Read More

Captain Boycott

Actors: Eddie Byrne, Maureen Delaney, Maurice Denham, Ian Fleming, Liam Gaffney

Synopsis: Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of Erne. The impoverished farmers conspire to banish him from the area. When Boycott learns of this, he tries Read More

Holiday Camp

Actors: John Blythe, Esma Cannon, Hazel Court, Jimmy Hanley, Dennis Harkin

Synopsis: Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for a successful B-movie series. The film takes place at a British summer resort, where various character types interact. A murderer on the loose invades the camp, but the Read More

The Upturned Glass

Actors: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Kellino, Jane Hylton, Ann Stephens, Morland Graham

Synopsis: James Mason stars in The Upturned Glass as a prosperous British brain surgeon. Mason saves Rosamund John's daughter from blindness, whereupon the married John falls in love with the doctor. The illicit lovers conduct a passionate affair while John's husband is out of the country. When John dies Read More

The End of the River

Actors: Basil Appleby, Dennis Arundell, Nicolette Bernard, Antoinette Cellier, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: East Indian actor Sabu is consistently better than his material in the sociological melodrama End of the River. The story concerns Mancel (Sabu), an Akuna Indian youth living in the forests of Brazil. Betrayed by a treacherous tribal chieftan, Mancel is branded an outlaw and exiled from his Read More

The Man Within

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

They Made Me a Fugitive

Actors: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Renee Ray, Mary Merrall

Synopsis: Clem Morgan (Trevor Howard), an embittered ex-RAF pilot, mistakenly believes the life of crime is for him in this exceptionally dark British film noir, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. He joins a gang of black marketeers led by the aptly named Narcey (short for Narcissus) (Griffith Jones), an Read More

Daybreak

Actors: Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Edward Rigby, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Daybreak a dark, depressing melodrama, tells the story of Eddie (Eric Portman) an unemployed hangman who marries Frankie (Ann Todd) after meeting her in a bar. The couple live on a barge and one day Portman returns home unexpectedly to finds Frankie in the arms of handsome longshoreman Olaf (Maxwell Reed Read More