Patricia Hayes Filmography

Blue Ice

Actors: Michael Caine, Sean Young, Ian Holm, Alun Armstrong, Sam Kelly

Synopsis: Released in the US on cable television, Blue Ice stars Michael Caine as an older, tireder version of his 1960s "Harry Palmer" character (his name, in fact, is Harry Anders). An M16 agent-turned-nightclub owner, Caine is a man of steadfast loyalties. Thus he takes it personally when several friends Read More

Six Characters in Search of an Author

The Neverending Story

Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Moses Gunn, Patricia Hayes

Synopsis: Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende's children's story for this charming fantasy film that spawned several sequels. Bastian (Barret Oliver) is dealing with his mother's recent death. His father (Gerald McRaney) is an imperious sort who continually lambastes Bastian for daydreaming and falling Read More

The Last Island

Actors: Paul Freeman, Shelagh McLeod, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Colley, Mark Hembrow

Synopsis: In this somewhat allegorical drama, five men, two women and a dog are the sole survivors of an airplane crash into the desert. The men are as mixed a lot as one could hope to find; the women (one young, one mature) are as level-headed a pair as one could hope to find. Conflict between the men Read More

Little Dorrit

Actors: Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack, Sarah Pickering, Joan Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: Little Dorrit was intended as the cinematic equivalent to the mammoth, eight hour Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby. The film was released to theatres in two parts, each running approximately three hours. The first part, subtitled "Nobody's Fault," introduced us to Read More

A Fish Called Wanda

Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin

Synopsis: In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson's dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his Read More

Willow

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Patricia Hayes, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Though Willow was one of director Ron Howard's few box-office disappointments, it definitely deserves a second look. At once an epic celebration and a gentle spoof of the sword-and-sorcery genre, the film concerns the efforts by little person Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) to protect a sacred Read More

War Requiem

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes, Rohan McCullough

Synopsis: The first BBC television film to be given a British theatrical release, Derek Jarman's War Requiem is a cinematic interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's famed oratorio. Narrated by Lord Laurence Olivier, whose last film this was, War Requiem combines Britten's music with the words of Read More

One More Saturday Night

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Tom Davis, Al Franken, Moira Harris, Frank Howard, Bess Meyer

Synopsis: This comedy makes fun of teen comedies as it chronicles a Midwestern town's feverish preparations for a big weekend party. Much of the story centers around the mad scramble for both youngsters and adults to find appropriate dates. The story was penned by Saturday Night Live alumni Al Franken and Tom Davis Read More

And the Wall Came Tumbling Down

Synopsis: An old building falls victim to the wrecker's ball. When the dust clears, the demolition crew discovers the three-centuries-old remains of a satanic cult. Barbi Benton, Gareth Hunt and Brian Deacon (in a dual role) head the cast of this British TV movie. And the Wall Came Tumbling Down debuted in Read More

The Corn Is Green

Actors: Bill Fraser, Katharine Hepburn, Anna Massey, Ian Saynor

Synopsis: Welsh-born writer Emlyn Williams' 1938 play The Corn is Green originally starred Ethel Barrymore as L.C. Moffat, the strong-willed schoolteacher under whose guidance the illiterate Welsh teenager Morgan Evans matriculates as an honor student. Bette Davis played Moffat in the 1945 film version; Read More

Super Bitch

Synopsis: The title woman, a prominent drug dealer, works overtime to keep her title by wantonly using men to do her dirty work and then having them killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fragment of Fear

Actors: David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: This chilling mystery begins when Lucy Dawson (Flora Robson) is found strangled in her apartment. Her nephew Tim (David Hemmings) is the former-drug-addict-turned-successful-author who wrote a book about his experiences. When Tim looks into his aunt's death, people give sketchy answers and the Read More

Carry on Again, Doctor

Actors: Kenny Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: The British "Carry On" series was in its 12th year when Carry On Again, Doctor was unleashed upon a panting public in 1969. Veteran Carry On-ers Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Jim Dale and Barbara Windsor fill the principal roles in this hospital farce. Read More

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Actors: Anthony Newley, Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jessel, Connie Kreski

Synopsis: Singer, songwriter, and actor Anthony Newley produced, directed, co-wrote, scored, and starred in this bizarre autobiographical musical in which a famous entertainer takes a look back at the circumstances of his life. Legendary singing star Heironymus Merkin (Newley) stands by the sea, surrounded Read More

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: While it might not have been the best idea on earth to remake the 1939 classic Goodbye Mr. Chips as a musical, the end result is not altogether displeasing. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Robert Donat role of Arthur Chipping (originally Charles Chipping), a young by-the-book schoolmaster at a Read More

A Ghost of a Chance

Synopsis: Ghost of a Chance is a whimsical "preservationist" comedy filmed in England. Three young children oppose the destruction of an historical landmark, but their pleas fall on deaf ears. Coming to the rescue is a coterie of friendly ghosts, who stave off the wrecking ball long enough for the Read More

The Very Merry Widow [TV Series]

Actors: Moira Lister, Molly Urquhart, Donald Hewlett, Jimmy Thompson, Sally Thompsett

Synopsis: The title character in this British sitcom was Jacquie Villiers (Moira Lister) who, after the death of her husband in a freak accident, discovered that she had inherited nothing but debts. To keep a roof over the heads of herself and her family, she tackled a variety of truly odd jobs, and also Read More

The Terrornauts

Actors: Simon Oates, Zena Marshall, Charles Hawtrey, Patricia Hayes, Stanley Meadows

Synopsis: When he inadvertently contacts an alien race, astronomer Dr. Joe Burke, accompanied by his building and those within it, is transported to another galaxy. Upon arrival, the humans see a futuristic scenario of Earth's fate, as this barbaric world was once a civilized society. Terrornauts is based Read More

Saturday Night Out

Actors: Heather Sears, Bernard Lee, Erika Remberg, Colin Campbell, John Bonney, Francesca Annis

Synopsis: This British comedy details what happens to five sailors and a passenger as they spend fifteen hours on shore leave in London while waiting for their cargo ship to unload. The passenger, a lonely widowed business man named George (Bernard Lee), finds his way to a West End bar, where he meets Wanda Read More

The Sicilians

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a Mafioso decides to go straight and turn states evidence against the mob. The mob retaliates by kidnapping the squealer's son. To get him back, the ex-gangster enlists the aid of a dancer, a worker for the American embassy, and Scotland Yard. At the end of it all, the boy is 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 Battle of the Sexes

Actors: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then hires American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) to bring the business into the modern age. The House of MacPherson has long been known as a manufacturer Read More

The Love Match

Synopsis: In this comedy, two rabid football fans begin an unstoppable train of events when they physically harass a referee. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Enforcer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Martin Ferguson, a prosecutor about to put Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane), the head of a murder-for-hire ring, on trial. But the night before the trial, his key witness, Joe Rico (Ted de Corsia), dies in a fall out of the window of the room in which he's been guarded, part Read More

Skimpy in the Navy

Synopsis: We're not sure, but the character of "Skimpy Carter" must have had some sort of following in Britain. Why else would a whole movie--Skimpy in the Navy--be built around this thinnish character? Music hall star Hal Monty plays the title role, playing an ex-soldier who becomes a sailor in order to Read More

Nicholas Nickleby

Actors: Jill Balcon, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Sally Ann Howes, Fay Compton, Alfred Drayton, Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Fletcher, Mary Merrall

Synopsis: Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this compact adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby is most entertaining on its own terms. Derek Bond plays the title character, a resourceful young Britisher forced to protect Read More

Great Day

Actors: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans, Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis: American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the Anglo-American coproduction Great Day. As the villagers prepare for their prestigious guest, all sorts of internal squabbles and personal foibles rise to the surface. The story Read More

Candles at Nine

Actors: Jessie Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann, Winifred Shotter, Reginald Purdell

Synopsis: British stage star Jessie Matthews, who lit up the silver screen in England during the '30s, returned to the screen for her first starring vehicle in five years in Candles at Nine. Adapted from Anthony Gilbert's novel Mouse Who Couldn't Play Ball, it's a haunted house/mystery film along lines that Read More

Hotel Reserve

Actors: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Julien Mitchell

Synopsis: Based on the Eric Ambler novel entitled "Epitaph for a Spy," this is the story of a medical student on the Riviera during the Summer before WWII begins. A refugee from Austria, he has been photographing wildlife. When the film he develops contains secret installations, he must prove that he is not Read More

When We Are Married

Actors: Lloyd Pearson, Raymond Huntley, Barry Morse, Lesley Brook

Synopsis: Adapted from the stage hit by J. B. Priestly, When We Are Married is a barbed satire of smug British conservatism. Set in turn-of-the-century Yorkshire, the story concerns three middle-aged married couples, who tend to look askance towards anyone who does not come up to their high moral and Read More

The Dummy Talks

Synopsis: In this weird crime drama the murder of a ventriloquist is solved by a midget who goes undercover as a dummy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Went the Day Well?

Actors: Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor

Synopsis: Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film covers 72 hours in the life of the small British village of Bramley Green, which serves as the focal point for an attempted German invasion. Immediately upon parachuting in Read More