Patrick McGoohanFilmography

Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns to the role of Lt. Columbo -- he of the grimy trenchcoat, dumb-like-a-fox interrogations, and the inevitable "Just one more question" -- in this two-hour TV-movie special. British comic actor Billy Connolly guest stars as famed movie composer/conductor Findlay Crawford, who Read More

Columbo: Ashes to Ashes

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Sally Kellerman, Rue McClanahan, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: In this feature-length episode of the enduring and endearing television detective drama, the world's most rumpled police investigator, Lt. Columbo investigates the mysterious disappearance of a controversial Hollywood gossip columnist. Columbo's prime suspect is a secretive mortician who Read More

Hysteria

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Dutch cult filmmaker Rene Daalder (Massacre at Central High, Habitat) directed this surreal tale of thought-control experiments on the inmates of an insane asylum. Like his other films, Hysteria is a rich and thematically dense sociopolitical allegory, but this time around the concept is Read More

A Time to Kill

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately Read More

The Phantom

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar

Synopsis: The first superhero ever, created by Lee Falk in 1936, gets another shot at movie stardom 60 years after achieving fame in comics and serials. Billy Zane stars as Kit Walker, who discovers that he's the 21st in a line of purple-clad African superheroes known as "The Phantom" or, to superstitious Read More

Braveheart

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace and, to a lesser degree, Robert the Bruce's struggle to unify his nation against its English oppressors. The story Read More

The Best of Friends

Actors: John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Patrick McGoohan

The Prisoner: Video Companion

Synopsis: This is a video guide to the cult television show The Prisoner. Filmed in England, the series aired in 1968-1969, in 17 episodes, and is considered by many to be the best series ever to be shown on the medium of television. Patrick McGoohan was the show's creator and star. The story line follows a Read More

Columbo: Agenda for Murder

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Arthur Hill, Denis Arndt, Louis Zorich

Synopsis: This 2-hour TV movie was originally presented as an installment of The ABC Saturday Mystery Movie in February of 1990. Patrick McGoohan (who also directed) plays a vice presidential candidate whose best friend murders a blackmailing racketeer. With "damage control" foremost in his mind, McGoohan Read More

Trespasses

Actors: Robert Kuhn, Van Brooks, Mary Pillot, Adam Roarke, Lou Diamond Phillips

Synopsis: Sharon Rae (Mary Pillot) is a Texas rancher who seeks vengeance against the two drifting rapists (Adam Roarke and Lou Diamond Phillips) who attacked her while her spineless husband Richard (Van Brooks) watched. Her neighbor Franklin (Robert Kuhn) loses his son Johnny (Thom Meyer) when he is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Witness for the Defense

Synopsis: This time Jessica (Angela Lansbury) travels to Quebec, there to attend the trial of an old friend who has been charged with murdering his wife and then torching his house. In order to prove her friend's innocence, Angela ends up agreeing to serve as a witness. . .for the prosecution. The lawyers Read More

Of Pure Blood

Synopsis: Four decades have passed since the end of WW II, and a woman returns to Germany, her birthplace, in an effort to discover the circumstances surrounding her son's death. She stumbles upon a covert Nazi organization who, through a selective breeding program, intend to create a new master race. Read More

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Synopsis: The brutal Salem witch trials provide the setting for this provocative drama that presents the story of an accused woman who survived the ordeal. Like her two older sisters, poor Sarah faces a trial herself. The sisters were tortured, found guilty and burned. Despite her fear, Sarah proves that Read More

Baby... Secret of the Lost Legend

Actors: William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, Kyalo Mativo

Synopsis: Eight years before the dinosaur mania created by Jurassic Park, Bill L. Norton released this more dinosaur-friendly story about a 10-foot baby dinosaur in dire straits in Africa because Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan), an evil paleontologist, is after it with a vengeance. He is the nemesis of Read More

Trespasses

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Emma Piper, Andy Anderson, Terence Cooper, Frank Whitten

Synopsis: Fred Wells (Patrick McGoohan) is a sullen introvert who still resents the death of his wife in childbirth 25 years earlier. His daughter born at that time, Katie (Emma Piper), runs away from his ravings about sin and damnation and escapes to a hippie-style commune where an unscrupulous guru ends Read More

Jamaica Inn

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: This made-for-TV remake of the Alfred Hitchcock adventure stars Patrick McGoohan as the head of a crew of smugglers; Jane Seymour plays his niece, who discovers the secret history of the title inn. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Scanners

Actors: Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Z. Dane, Chuck Shamata, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The title of this David Cronenberg sci-fi horror film refers to a group of people who have telekinetic powers that allow them to read minds and give them the ability to make other people's heads explode. The children of a group of women who took an experimental tranquilizer during their Read More

Kings and Desperate Men - A Hostage Incident

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Alexis Kanner, Andrea Marcovicci, Margaret Trudeau, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan stars in this thriller as a loutish talk-show host who is held hostage by a band of terrorists who plan to use his program to broadcast their demands. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hard Way

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan does his patented "carrying the world on my shoulders" bit in The Hard Way. McGoohan is cast as Conner, a worldly, weary professional assassin. On the verge of retirement, he is cajoled by former associate McNeal (Lee Van Cleef) into doing one last job. Expecting a routine Read More

Escape from Alcatraz

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward

Synopsis: No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood). This Donald Siegel-directed nailbiter is a reenactment of Frank Morris' 1962 attempt to bust himself and two other cons out of The Rock. Eastwood, as Morris, tilts with nasty warden Patrick McGoohan Read More

Brass Target

Actors: Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis: What if General George S. Patton didn't die in a car accident, as history tells us, but at the hands of a paid assassin? That's the premise of Brass Target, another in a series of espionage thrillers, like The Eagle Has Landed, that speculates on the fates of real-life figures from World War II. Robert Vaughn Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Louis Jourdan

Synopsis: The made-for-television The Man in the Iron Mask was, at the very least, the twelfth film version of Alexandre Dumas' 1847 novel. The title character is Philippe (Richard Chamberlain), rightful heir to the throne of France. Enemies of Philippe's twin brother, King Louis XIV (also Chamberlain) plot Read More

Silver Streak

Actors: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning, Hilly tells George that her boss is on the verge of exposing a group of vicious art forgers. Later that Read More

Un Genio, Due Compari, un Pollo

Actors: Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little town after literally falling out of a stagecoach while asleep. After besting Read More

Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light

Synopsis: In this suspense movie, Lt. Colombo thwarts the evil scheme of a military academy commandant who is planning on murdering the school board chairman to further his career. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Catch My Soul

Crew: Director

Actors: Richie Havens, Season Hubley, Lance Le Gault

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello is a real oddity and features some surprisingly good tunes. Set in the American Southwest, Othello is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune. There he marries the lovely Desdemona much to the chagrin of Read More

Mary, Queen of Scots

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: Vanessa Redgrave stars as Mary Stuart of Scotland, with Glenda Jackson co-starring as Queen Elizabeth I. As with the earlier Maxwell Anderson play Mary of Scotland, the film sympathizes with Mary, and there are two fictionalized face-to-face confrontations between the two queens (who never met in Read More

The Moonshine War

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Melodie Johnson, Will Geer

Synopsis: In this comedy drama set during the late Prohibition era, a federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted. He sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy, but just before they strike a deal, two ex-convicts frighten the buddy away. The creeps then Read More

The Prisoner: Fallout

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leo McKern

Synopsis: Perhaps one of the most fascinating and maddening 48 minutes ever committed to television broadcast, "Fall Out" was the 17th and final episode of the British sci-fi/fantasy series The Prisoner. Having survived the ordeal of Degree Absolute in the previous episode "Once Upon a Time", Number Six is Read More

The Prisoner: Living in Harmony

Actors: Valerie French

Synopsis: Written by David Tomblin and Ian L. Rakoff, "Living In Harmony" briefly whisks Number Six away from The Village and plunks him into the American West circa 1870. Forced by a "Roy Bean"-style judge (David Bauer) to accept the job of sheriff, Number Six discovers that his first assignment is to Read More

The Prisoner: The Girl Who Was Death

Synopsis: First broadcast in England on January 21, 1968, "The Girl Who Was Death" was written by Terence Feely, from an idea by David Tomblin, producer of The Prisoner and director of this episode. Again mysteriously transported from The Village, Number Six finds himself in an isolated lighthouse with a Read More

The Prisoner: Once upon a Time

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leo McKern

Synopsis: Written and directed by series star Patrick McGoohan, "Once Upon a Time" was the first of two episodes of The Prisoner designed to "explain" (more or less) several of the questions posed by the previous episodes, and to bring the saga to a conclusion --- albeit not a logical one. Leo McKern Read More

The Prisoner: The Lost Episode

Synopsis: This episode of the unique and still puzzling television series is an alternative second episode that contains scenes not found in the first and original second version, with new scenes and different dialogue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prisoner: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling

Synopsis: Regarded by many as the best-ever episode of The Prisoner, "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling" was written by Vincent Tilsley. Number Six awakens with the belief that he is actually another man -- to be exact, an Army colonel (Nigel Stock). Failing to recognize his own face in his own mirror, the Read More

Ice Station Zebra

Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill

Synopsis: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The Read More

The Prisoner: The Arrival

Synopsis: Having been kidnapped and drugged after resigning his position, a British intelligence agent (Patrick McGoohan) awakens in the Village (a mysterious, Orwellian community). Now known as Number Six, he is expected to provide information to the enigmatic Number Two (Guy Doleman) if he ever hopes to Read More

The Prisoner: Hammer into the Anvil

Synopsis: Written by Roger Woddis, this episode of The Prisoner guest stars Patrick Cargill (also seen in the previous episode "Free for All") as super sadistic New Number Two. Delighting in tormenting the villagers, Number Two drives at least one of them, Number 73 (Hilary Dwyer), to suicide. Hoping to Read More

Secret Agent 7: War on the Beach

Synopsis: Secret Agent 7 contains the episode "War on the Beach" of the popular British action series ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prisoner: A Change of Mind

Synopsis: First broadcast in England on December 31, 1967, "A Change of Mind" was directed by Prisoner star Patrick McGoohan, under the pseudonym of "Joseph Serf" (the same name he'd used when directing the earlier episode "Many Happy Returns.") Still refusing to reveal his reasons for resigning from Read More

Secret Agent 8

The Prisoner: Dance of the Dead

Actors: Mary Morris, Norma West

Synopsis: In this episode of the allegorical television series The Prisoner, No. 6 (Patrick McGoohan) discovers a new sort of danger has come to the Village, while a carnival attempts to distract the villagers from their gloom. No. 6 recognizes a new resident, and learns that he is being tortured by No. 2 Read More

Koroshi

Synopsis: Koroshi combined the final two episodes of the Patrick McGoohan series Secret Agent (aka Danger Man), "Koroshi" and "Shindo Shiba," into one feature-length film that was released theatrically into overseas markets. They were also the only two episodes of the series filmed in color, and even the Read More

The Prisoner: A, B & C

Synopsis: In this episode of the British television series The Prisoner, medical researchers at the Village have discovered a way to tap into the human mind and observe a person's dreams and sub-conscious thoughts. Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) becomes a test subject, and as he is unconscious, his Read More

The Prisoner: The Schizoid Man

Synopsis: Number Six awakens one morning to find that his appearance has been radically altered and that he has been reassigned the "identity" of Number Two. Compounding his confusion, he comes face to face with the new Number Six, who looks exactly like his "old" self (Patrick McGoohan plays both roles). Read More

The Prisoner: Free for All

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The celebrated "election episode" of The Prisoner, "Free For All" was directed by series star Patrick McGoohan, and also written by him under the pen name of Paddy Fitz. While the Village gears up for the election of the New Number Two, Number Six is encouraged to throw his hat in the ring. Read More

The Prisoner: Many Happy Returns

Synopsis: Originally broadcast in England on November 12, 1967, this episode of The Prisoner was written by Anthony Skene and directed by "Joseph Serf" --- actually a pseudonym for series star Patrick McGoohan. Arising from his slumbers early one morning, Number Six discovers that the Village is deserted Read More

The Prisoner: The General

Synopsis: The fine line between knowledge and insight becomes a battleground in this episode of the classic British television series The Prisoner. Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) becomes aware of a strange new innovation created by scientists in the Village -- a type of brain implant that allows the subject Read More

The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben

Actors: Leo McKern, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: In this episode of the cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner, Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) appears to be developing an artistic side when he begins work on a series of sculptures for an art exhibit. What his captors do not realize is that they can be assembled into a boat, and Number 6 uses them to Read More

The Prisoner: It's Your Funeral

Actors: Mark Eden

Synopsis: Number Six learns of an impending assassination, "Plan Division Q," in which the target is the Retiring Number Two (Andre Van Gyseghem). Actually, these plans were deliberately divulged by the New Number Two (Derren Nesbitt), who hopes thereby to discredit Number Six. With no one willing to Read More

The Prisoner: Checkmate

Synopsis: Originally written as the second episode of The Prisoner, "Checkmate" was then slated to be shown as episode #11. Instead, it was telecast out of chronological order as the 10th episode on December 3, 1967. One of the series' most fondly remembered installments ---and the one that posted the Read More

Secret Agent 3

Synopsis: In the episode contained on Secret Agent 3, Drake (Patrick McGoohan) has to sneak behind the Iron Curtain to rescue a friend. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Secret Agent 2

Synopsis: In the episode contained on Secret Agent 2, Drake (Patrick McGoohan) has to go behind the Iron Curtain to prevent an East German spy from murdering the head of the German Secret Police. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Secret Agent 4

Synopsis: In the episode on Secret Agent 4, Drake (Patrick McGoohan) must search for the head of a Mid-Eastern spy ring. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Secret Agent 5: Yesterday's Enemies

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan plays British secret agent John Drake, who appears in defense of his beloved isle in this episode, titled: "Yesterday's Enemies." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Secret Agent 6: The Professionals

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan plays British secret agent John Drake in this episode, titled "The Professionals." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he is the model of upstanding citizenship and loyalty to an oppressive British government. But he is also a notorious smuggler who uses his ill-gotten gains to benefit his Read More

Secret Agent 1

Synopsis: The first episode of the British action/espionage television series Secret Agent is featured on Secret Agent 1. In this episode, secret agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) is introduced as he embarks on a special mission. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Danger Man [TV Series]

Synopsis: This follow-up to the 1960 Danger Man TV series was also known as Secret Agent in the U.S. As portrayed by Patrick McGoohan, John Drake, special operative for the British Secret Service, brings his own distinctive style and sense of fair-play to bear upon a variety of daring and dangerous missions Read More

The Three Lives of Thomasina

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Vincent Winter, Denis Gilmore

Synopsis: Based on a whimsical novel by Paul Gallico, Disney's Three Lives of Thomasina is an imaginative tale of a resourceful cat. Thomasina is the pet of Karen Dotrice, the daughter of taciturn Scottish veterinarian Patrick McGoohan. When Thomasina falls ill, McGoohan coldly diagnoses the cat as Read More

Condemned to Life

Actors: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins

Synopsis: Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he refused to grant his dying daughter badly needed blood transfusions because he had faith that God would miraculously heal her. Unfortunately, the girl dies and now, in Read More

The Quare Fellow

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Harry Brogan, Dermot Kelly, Jack Cunningham

Synopsis: Brendan Behan, the quixotic, eternally sloshed Irish poet/playwright, peppered his play The Quare Fellow with plenty of "gallows humor." The film version dispenses with most the play's morbid jests, leaving us with a grim, straightforward account of a Dublin death-row prison guard (Patrick McGoohan Read More

All Night Long

Actors: Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair

Synopsis: The British All Night Long is Othello to a jazz beat. Paul Harris is the Othello counterpart, a bandleader happily married to "Desdemona" Marti Stevens. Patrick McGoohan plays the film's funky Iago character, who covets Harris' job. McGoohan hopes to unnerve Harris by spreading rumors that Stevens Read More

Danger Man: Affair of State

Synopsis: In this episode from the popular BBC spy series, agent Drake looks into the supposed suicide of a prominent financier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danger Man: A View from the Villa

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular BBC spy series, Agent Drake must find the killer of a prominent American financier. If he fails, NATO could be destroyed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danger Man: Under the Lake

Synopsis: Secret Agent John Drake investigates the surfeit of American money on the international market in this episode of the popular BBC spy series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Two Living, One Dead

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Bill Travers

Synopsis: Two Living, One Dead examines the pitfalls of hero worship, and the culpability of the media in fostering misguided adulation. A robbery and murder is committed in a British pub, during which Bill Travers, a friend of the dead man, apparently acts with rare courage. His companion Patrick McGoohan Read More

Danger Man: Bury the Dead

Synopsis: Special agent John Drake heads out to stop enemy spies in this episode of a popular BBC espionage series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danger Man [TV Series]

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan starred in this weekly, half-hour actioner as NATO agent John Drake. Danger Man ran in the U.S. from April 5 through September 13, 1961. The series was followed four years later by a more popular 60-minute version. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Lyndon Brook

Synopsis: Greek actress Melina Mercouri made her English-language film debut in The Gypsy and the Gentleman. Mercouri plays tempestuous gypsy girl Belle, while the "gentleman" is Sir Paul Deverill (Keith Michell). Escaping an arranged marriage, Sir Paul weds the bewitching Belle,who intends to take him for Read More

Elephant Gun

Actors: Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Anna Gaylor, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a young woman spends all her time caring for her ailing mother. The one bright spot in her life is her African pen pal. Her mother finally dies, and the woman immediately sets off for Africa to meet the pen pal. There she finds that he is too busy chasing elephants to Read More

Hell Drivers

Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company's Read More

High Tide at Noon

Actors: William Sylvester, Michael Craig, Flora Robson, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: A rugged, isolated island off the coast of Nova Scotia provides the setting for this drama. Much of the island is owned by one person, the other inhabitants, primarily lobster fishermen, rent from him. One of the lobster men begins romancing the wealthy owner's daughter and marries her. After the Read More

Zarak

Actors: Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anita Ekberg, Bonar Colleano, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: In this desert adventure, a bandit chieftain roams the northwest deserts of India. Wherever he goes, he leaves a trail of ruin and raped women. A British major is assigned to capture the bandit and his gang. He succeeds, but soon the bandit, with the assistance of a sadistic nomad, escapes. The Read More

The Warriors

Actors: Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru, Peter Finch, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Holt

Synopsis: The Dark Avenger was the European-release title of the Errol Flynn swashbuckler The Warriors; 20th Century-Fox handled European distribution, while Allied Artists released the film stateside. Lensed on location in Hertfordshire, England, the film stars Flynn as Edward, the "Black Prince" of Read More

I Am a Camera

Actors: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl

Synopsis: Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. Set in pre-Hitler Berlin, the film details the curious, chaste relationship between Sally, an entertainer at a bawdy nightclub, and fledgling writer Christopher Isherwood (Lawrence Read More

Passage Home

Synopsis: A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harbored in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew Read More

The Dam Busters

Actors: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Stanley van Beers, Ursula Jeans, Derek Farr, Raymond Huntley, Patrick Barr

Synopsis: The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the "bouncing bombs" in World War II. Michael Redgrave stars as Dr. Barnes Wallis, who developed these unorthodox explosives. Wallis' invention is put to practical use during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams in Read More