Robert MorleyFilmography

War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

The Lady and the Highwayman

Actors: Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman. ~ All Movie Guide 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

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

The Trouble with Spies

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is an inept international secret agent sent by the U.S. to the island of Ibiza in this uneven spy comedy. His mission is to secure the secret recipe for a truth serum to use on enemy agents. Appleton miraculously avoids being killed on several occasions as Read More

The Wind

Actors: Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum, Robert Morley, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, Nico Mastorakis has primarily been responsible for undistinguished genre efforts like Blood Tide, Grandma's House, and this thriller. Meg Foster stars as Sian, an American mystery writer who comes to an imposing Read More

Second Time Lucky

Actors: Diane Franklin, Roger Wilson, Robert Helpmann, Jon Gadsby, John-Michael Howson

Synopsis: In this tongue-and-cheek comedy, the Devil and God get together and the horned one bets God that were Adam and Eve to get a second go of it, the same result would occur. To prove his point, the film swings back to Roman times, through WW I, the Roaring '20s and more, as temptation prevails Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Donald O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world Read More

The High Road to China

Actors: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley

Synopsis: O'Malley (Tom Selleck) is a heavy-drinking, tough biplane pilot flying the skies of China for fun and profit when Eve (Bess Armstrong) seeks him out to help her find her father before he is declared dead and she loses an inheritance to the evil Bentik (Robert Morley). O'Malley does not really want Read More

The Deadly Game

Synopsis: Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Muppet Caper

Actors: Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie, which was essentially just a road movie. As the film begins, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are reporters who have failed to bag a story of a London jewel heist, which Read More

Loophole

Actors: Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: This caper film stars Martin Sheen as Stephen Booker, an unemployed American architect in London who needs to jump-start his finances. Enter criminal mastermind Mike Daniels (Albert Finney), who gathers a group of thieves together to rob an impregnable London bank of millions by coming in through Read More

Oh, Heavenly Dog!

Actors: Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Any comedy should be suspect when the lead character, in this case Benjamin Browning, is played both by an actor (Chevy Chase) and a lovable dog (Benji). Private eye Browning is in London tracking down a sexual scandal in British political circles when he is murdered. His karma is canine in form Read More

Lady Killers [TV Series]

The Human Factor

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley, Ann Todd

Synopsis: This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a trap. Castle (Nicol Williamson) has a desk job in British intelligence. Around him are heavyweights like Col. Daintry (Richard Attenborough), Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Read More

Scavenger Hunt

Actors: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little

Synopsis: When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to inherit the big bucks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Actors: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is first-class. His doctor has given him stern warnings that he must lose over one hundred pounds, or he will die of heart failure. The presence of so many four-star chefs in Read More

The Blue Bird

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Sesiliya Tayson, Cicely Tyson, Robert Morley

Synopsis: The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), who leave home to search for the Blue Bird of Read More

Hugo the Hippo

Actors: Ronny Cox, Jesse Emmet, Burl Ives, Paul Lynde, Len Maxwell

Synopsis: Assembled in Hungarian by novice producer Robert Halmi and equally "green" director Bill Feigenbaum, Hugo the Hippo is an easygoing feature-length cartoon. Hugo, a baby hippopotamus living in ancient times, is persecuted by a world populated by hippo-haters. Foremost among these reprobates is Aban Read More

Hugo a Vizilo

Great Expectations

Actors: Joss Ackland, Margaret Leighton, James Mason, Michael York, Sarah Miles

Synopsis: This third talking-picture version of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations stars Michael York as Pip, the humble British lad whose aspirations to become a gentleman are financed by a mysterious benefactor. We first see young Pip (played by Simon Gipps-Kent) coming to the aid of escaped Read More

Theater of Blood

Actors: Brigid Eric Bates, Stanley Bates, Jack Maguire, Bunny Reed, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after Read More

When Eight Bells Toll

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Natalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in this convoluted adventure yarn, scripted by Alistair MacLean. Hopkins is Philip Calvert, a water-logged James Bond. Calvert plays a naval secret-service agent who is assigned to find out why millions of pounds of gold bullion are being stolen under the noses of the British Read More

Song of Norway

Actors: Toralv Maurstad, Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Frank Porretta, Harry Secombe, Robert Morley

Synopsis: This musical biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Torval Maurstad) is based on the play of the same name. Living in poverty after graduating from a music conservatory, Grieg scandalizes his family by marrying his cousin Nina (Florence Henderson). Grieg has an affair with a former Read More

Doctor in Trouble

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, James Robertson Justice, Angela Scoular, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy begins when Doctor Burke (Leslie Phillips) chases the beautiful Ophelia (Angela Scoular) on board an ocean liner and is trapped. He masquerades as a female photographer to avoid detection, hoping to propose marriage to Ophelia. Burke tries to avoids the suspicion of pompous Read More

Cromwell

Actors: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston

Synopsis: This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard Harris) is the Anglican religious fanatic who fights corruption and Catholicism with equal zeal, while King Charles (Alec Guinness) is the vacillating monarch who believes his Read More

Sinful Davey

Actors: John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Davey Haggart (John Hurt) wishes to follow his father's footsteps and become a highway robber. He also wishes to avoid his father's fate -- which was death by hanging at the tender age of 21 after a botched robbery of the Duke of Argyle (Robert Morley). Davey commits a daring robbery in broad Read More

Lola

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

The Trygon Factor

Actors: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley, Cathleen Nesbitt, Brigitte Horney

Synopsis: A Scotland Yard inspector is called on to investigate a series of unsolved robberies in The Trygon Factor. Inspector Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger) ends up at the country manor of a respectable English family. Livia Emberday (Cathleen Nesbitt) is the mistress of the house who has turned to crime 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

Hot Millions

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley

Synopsis: This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he is released from jail Caesar (Peter Ustinov) is planning his high-tech heist. He cons American executive Klemper (Karl Malden) and sets up three bogus companies to receive Read More

Sette Volte Donna

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays opposite Peter Sellers as a widow at her husband's funeral. In "Amateur Night," she's a wife who's Read More

Tender Scoundrel

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Geneviève Page, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a Read More

Finders Keepers

Actors: Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Bruce Welch, Hank B. Marvin, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Brian Bennett, Vivienne Ventura

Synopsis: British pop star Cliff Richard and his band The Shadows (including influential guitarist Hank B. Marvin) star in this lighthearted blend of music, comedy, and espionage. An American fighter plane accidentally drops a small bomb on a Spanish town; the bomb fails to go off, but the community is Read More

Hotel Paradiso

Actors: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida), the pretty but neglected wife of the pompous architect Henri (Robert Morley). When Henri unexpectedly returns, Marcelle and Benedict don disguises and hide Read More

A Study in Terror

Actors: John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley

Synopsis: In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack the Ripper in this well-made and exciting mystery produced, written and directed by James Hill. In this adaptation of the popular character created by Sir Arthur Conan Read More

Way... Way Out

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Robert Morley, Dennis Weaver, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Comical chaos erupts when milquetoast astronaut Peter Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) and his bride-of-convenience and fellow astronaut (the government forced them to marry to avoid scandal) Eileen Forbes (Connie Stevens) are sent to a lunar space station, which they will share with a Russian couple, to Read More

Genghis Khan

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Françoise Dorléac

Synopsis: The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody. Though Omar Sharif essays the title role, top billing is bestowed upon Stephen Boyd as Genghis Khan's mentor-turned-enemy Jamuga. It's hard to generate audience sympathy for a 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 Loved One

Actors: Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Dana Andrews

Synopsis: The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned Read More

Life at the Top

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a film in 1959. Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) 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

Of Human Bondage

Actors: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna, Roger Livesey

Synopsis: This third screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel about the destructiveness of sexual obsession stars Laurence Harvey as Philip Carey, a club-footed artist who after two unsuccessful years in Paris decides to pursue a career in medicine instead. During his medical studies he falls in love Read More

Ladies Who Do

Actors: Peggy Mount, Harry H. Corbett, Miriam Karlin, Avril Elgar

Synopsis: A British charwoman and her colleagues strike it rich on the stock market when she discovers a wastebasket filled with market tips in this drama. Later they decide to use their money for good after they overhear a wicked financier planning to destroy the cleaning woman's neighborhood. Together Read More

Topkapi

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his own spoof, Topkapi. It's a rather disreputable crew that teams for the elaborate jewel theft masterminded by Maximillian Schell. Sexy Melina Mercouri (Mrs. Dassin) is Read More

Nine Hours to Rama

Actors: Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Valeiie Gearon, Don Borisenko, Robert Morley

Synopsis: This drama follows the nine hours that came before the assassination of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu radical. Naturam Godse (Horst Buchholz), a Brahmin who was rejected for service in the British Army and is horrified by the fighting between Moslem and Hindu fanatics, comes to the Read More

The Old Dark House

Actors: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Peter Bull

Synopsis: Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who sets out to deliver a car to a remote and very creepy Welsh estate. Unfortunately he discovers the owner dead. While attempting to leave a fierce storm erupts and he has a Read More

Take Her, She's Mine

Actors: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley, Philippe Forquet

Synopsis: In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired hippies and radical anti-nuclear political causes. Her involvement in such activities sends her ultra-conservative father Frank (James Stewart) into a tizzy. His reassuring Read More

Agent 8 3/4

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley, Leo McKern, Roger Delgado

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author, Bogarde is sent to Czechoslovakia by the British government as an unofficial "goodwill ambassador" to an industrial firm. It soon dawns upon him that his real assignment is to Read More

Murder at the Gallop

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Stringer Davis

Synopsis: This is one of a series of competent murder mysteries directed by George Pollock based on the Agatha Christie character, Miss Marple. Margaret Rutherford stars as the grey-haired, wily sleuth who will not give up until all the pieces of a puzzle have been neatly put in place. This time around, an Read More

The Road to Hong Kong

Actors: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured Dorothy Lamour once made famous. In this road to Hong Kong and parts far beyond, Chester and Harry (Hope and Crosby) are a couple of failed vaudeville stars looking for a way to Read More

The Story of Joseph and His Brethren

Synopsis: In this biblical epic, the rise of the humble Joseph from hapless slave to prophet and advisor to the Pharoah is chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Boys

Actors: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Director Sidney J. Furie was betwixt and between his Canadian TV work and his theatrical-film prominence vis-a-vis Ipcress File (65) when he helmed the British social melodrama The Boys. The title characters are four youths, all implicated in the murder of a night watchman. Robert Morley plays the Read More

Go to Blazes

Actors: Dave King, Robert Morley, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director Michael Truman. Bernard (Dave King) is the ringleader, while Harry and Alfie (Daniel Massey and Norman Rossington) do their best to contribute to the trio's success -- and fail each Read More

The Young Ones

Actors: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray, Richard O'Sullivan, Melvyn Hayes

Synopsis: Wonderful to Be Young! was released in Britain as The Young Ones. Given the later output of director Sidney J. Furie, one might suspect that the original title was meant as irony, but in fact this is an upbeat, life-affirming vehicle for British pop singer Cliff Richard. In this one, Richard, the 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

Joseph and His Brethren

Synopsis: Irving Rapper's film is a dramatization of the Old Testament tale of Joseph, who ascends from slavery to the position of minister in the court of the pharaoh. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Oscar Wilde

Actors: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the author's tumultuous life. While he was married to a woman named Constance (Phyllis Calvert), Wilde was primarily attracted to men, and at the height of his fame, he became involved Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Specialty of the House

Synopsis: Robert Morley is cast as Mr. Laffler, a gourmet who is anxious to be admitted into a private dining club called Spirro's. Ever since he was allowed to sample the specialty of the house, an exotic dish called "lamb armistran," Laffler has been prepared to move heaven and earth to join the club. Read More

Libel

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: A man is forced to prove who he really is -- and discovers that it isn't as easy as one might think -- in this drama. Sir Mark Loddon (Dirk Bogarde) is a titled member of the British aristocracy who lives a life of wealth, privilege, and notoriety, until one day Jeffrey Buckenham (Paul Massie), a Read More

The Journey

Actors: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Morley, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I in 1956. Deborah Kerr is Lady Diana Ashmore, caught at the wrong side of the Hungarian-Austrian border in 1956, and Yul Brynner is Major Surov, a Russian commander who works Read More

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Actors: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, David Horne, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is appointed sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a wide-open town where law officers are plugged and planted on a regular basis. He befriends hard-bitten saloon gal Jayne Mansfield, who doesn't Read More

Law and Disorder

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

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

The Doctor's Dilemma

Actors: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers to assume that Doctor's Dilemma was merely the latest installment in Bogarde's "Doctor in the House" series. Bogarde plays a rakish artist who falls victim to consumption. Leslie Caron Read More

Loser Takes All

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Glynis Johns, Robert Morley, Tony Britton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this location-filmed domestic seriocomedy, Rosanno Brazzi and Glynis Johns play an accountant and his new wife, honeymooning in Monte Carlo. With the casino in full view and ready for action, the couple would be remiss if they didn't give the gaming tables a try. Besides, Brazzi is certain that Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

Quentin Durward

Actors: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in the title role, playing the son of an aging Scottish nobleman. He has been dispatched to propose to a high-born Frenchwoman (Kay Kendall) on his uncle's behalf, but one look Read More

The Good Die Young

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, John Ireland

Synopsis: The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery. American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) hopes to use his share of the haul to bring his British wife to the US. Professional boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) finds himself unable to work Read More

Beau Brummell

Actors: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald

Synopsis: As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell. Granger plays the famed 18th-century dandy and social arbiter who rises from poverty to become the adviser and severest critic of the Prince of Wales (marvelously portrayed Read More

The Rainbow Jacket

Actors: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred from racing. Although he himself can no longer race, the jockey decides to live his dreams through Georgie Crain, who becomes his youthful protege. Sam teaches George all he Read More

Beat the Devil

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming Read More

The Final Test

Actors: Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph, Adrianne Allen, Brenda Bruce

Synopsis: This British comedy centers around the game of Cricket. It is set as the British team and their legendary cricket player Sam Palmer, prepare for a big match with the Australians. It will be his swan song in the game. His son Reggie, a fledgling poet, must make a difficult decision. On one hand, he Read More

The Great Gilbert and Sullivan

Actors: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Peter Finch, Martyn Green

Synopsis: Robert Morley and Maurice Evans play W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, 19th-century composers of such imperishable comic operettas as H.M.S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Much is made of the inescapable fact that Gilbert and Sullivan grew to dislike each other intensely. Also 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

Outcast of the Islands

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Kerima, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Trevor Howard plays a degenerate British expatriate who wanders aimlessly around a Malayan island. Most of the film involves the search for Howard by those Read More

Curtain Up

Actors: Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Olive Sloane, Joan Rice, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: The world of provincial British theatre is given a gentle going over in Curtain Up. Short of funds, a small-town repertory troupe is forced to bow to the whims of wealthy Catherine (Margaret Rutherford), the aunt of the theatre's manager. When Catherine writes a perfectly dreadful play, the actors Read More

The African Queen

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the screenplay for a Huston picture. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly Read More

Edward, My Son

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald, Mervyn Johns, Leucen MacGrath

Synopsis: Businessman Spencer Tracy is devoted beyond all reason to his son Edward. Tracy lies, cheats, steals, commits arson, and drives two people to suicide in order to smooth Edward's path in life. The boy repays this loyalty by becoming an ungrateful wastrel, who fathers a child out of wedlock and ends Read More

The Small Back Room

Actors: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, Leslie Banks

Synopsis: In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red Shoes, one of their greatest international successes, but it had yet to be released when the Rank Organization, doubting the commercial appeal of the picture, severed ties 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

A Yank in London

Actors: Anna Neagle, Dean Jagger, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Irene Vanbrugh

Synopsis: I Live in Grosvenor Square is better known by its American release title, A Yank in London. Anna Neagle, whose husband Herbert Wilcox produced and directed the film, stars as Lady Patricia Fairfax, who enters into a brief wartime romance with American air force sergeant John Patterson (Dean Read More

The Foreman Went to France

Actors: Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans, Robert Morley, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a dangerous foray into occupied France to recover three machine parts that will be vital to the Allies. He is accompanied by a pair of tough British soldiers and an American girl. Read More

The Young Mr. Pitt

Actors: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Raymond Lovell, Max Adrian

Synopsis: Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament Read More

The Big Blockade

Actors: Leslie Banks, Morland Graham, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, John Stuart, John Mills

Synopsis: Having underestimated Hitler in the 1930s, British propaganda specialists spent the early war years insisting they were prepared for any international contingency. Big Blockade was a morale-boosting film produced in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Welfare. In documentary fashion, the Read More

This Was Paris

Actors: Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, Robert Morley, Harold Huth

Synopsis: Filmed in England at Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios facilities, This Was Paris stars American actors (and current British residents) Ann Dvorak and Ben Lyon. She is cast as Ann Morgan, a female ambulance driver in the early days of WWII. He is cast as bibulous American newspaperman Butch, who Read More

Major Barbara

Actors: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller. Hiller plays Major Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army who is also a socialist and stridently attacks capitalists -- in particular her Read More

You Will Remember

Actors: Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Hyson, Nicholas Phipps, Gertrude Musgrove

Synopsis: You Will Remember is based on the life of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (born Thomas Barrett in 1864), here played by Robert Morley. The film traces Stuart's rise to fame after the publication of his first song, follows him through his glory days in the early 1900s, then recounts his fall Read More

Return to Yesterday

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, Hartley Power, Milton Rosmer

Synopsis: A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by Robert Morley. Clive Brook is ideally cast as Robert Maine, a famous movie star who longs for the simpler days before he became the idol of millions-and before he was trapped into a Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Read More