Sandra Dorne Filmography

Playbirds

Synopsis: Shortly before her untimely death at age 33, British sex symbol Mary Millington starred in Playbirds. The film concerns danger and intrigue in the world of sex-magazine publishing, a plot device that allows for acres and acres of nude female flesh. A villain is a serial killer, preying on the Read More

Joseph Andrews

Actors: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale

Synopsis: Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel. Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of Read More

All Coppers Are...

Synopsis: When three old acquaintances are thrown together after several years, they are shocked to realize that they are looking at each other from different sides of the law. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Malpas Mystery

Actors: Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson, Ronald Howard, Sandra Dorne

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace mystery, this puzzler centers on the attempts of a crook who goes to great lengths to steal another's fortune. It begins as an unjustly incarcerated heiress finishes a prison sentence. The crook wants to steal her father's money and so tries to convince the ailing tycoon Read More

The Secret Door

Synopsis: In this wartime espionage drama, two incarcerated safecrackers are released to help Naval Intelligence steal classified Japanese documents following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The documents are hidden in the Japanese embassy in Lisbon. Once there, the crooks learn that the papers are worth a Read More

Devil Doll

Actors: Bryant Halliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Stepanek, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: Hugo is mad as heck, and he's not going to take it any more! Hugo is the dummy used by the Great Vorelli, a ventriloquist and hypnotist who wows London with his amazing act. Hugo can walk as well as talk, and he does other interesting things. Neglecting his statuesque mistress Magda, Vorelli Read More

The Amorous Mr. Prawn

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Based on Anthony Kimmins' stage success The Amorous Prawn, this British light comedy stars Joan Greenwood as the wife of an Army general (Cecil Parker). Having fallen upon hard times, the wife hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting Read More

Avengers: Conspiracy of Silence

Synopsis: Cathy poses as a journalist to find out why a circus clown (Robert Rietty) is trying to murder Steed. It turns out that the clown is a functionary of the Mafia, and that Steed is getting too close for comfort to the "organization's" American drug-smuggling operation. It also turns out that the Read More

Avengers: Diamond Cut Diamond

Synopsis: Posing as a crooked airline steward, Steed is able to join an international diamond smuggling ring. After arriving in New York, he is accused of killing a girl in a traffic accident and cannot account for his actions during the tragedy. Suspecting that Steed has been drugged, Keel investigates Read More

The House in Marsh Road

Synopsis: A short ghost story, this film is better than it looks at first glance. When Jean, the patient wife of novelist David, inherits a country house, it seems an ideal opportunity for David to complete his long-awaited book, even though the house harbors Patrick, a mischievous, family poltergeist. Read More

Not a Hope in Hell

Synopsis: The title of this British farce, one assumes, does not refer to the producers' assessement of its box office success. Richard Murdoch, Sandra Dorne and Jon Pertwee star as, respectively, an American secret agent, a pretty British customs official, and a vain TV star. This less-than-dynamic trio Read More

Orders to Kill

Actors: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Irene Worth

Synopsis: The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he, originally a pilot, is grounded during WW II. He is trained to assassinate a Paris lawyer suspected of colluding with the Nazis. During his rigorous training for the killing, the Read More

The Bank Raiders

Synopsis: In this competent entertainment about a minor crook in trouble, Terry is the driver for a successful bank job. He is told by gang-boss Shelton to lie low but instead celebrates with Della, a greedy but alluring party girl, then gets picked up on suspicion. He is released when the key witness Read More

Operation Murder

Actors: Tom Conway

Synopsis: Looking rather spent, Tom Conway walks through the British programmer Operation Murder. Conway is a poverty-stricken doctor who happens to have a rich cousin. Conspiring with his partner Patrick Holt, Conway schemes to kill his cousin, passing off the death as a mishap on the operation table. The Read More

Three Sundays to Live

Synopsis: After a former dance band leader is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Desperate to prove his innocence, he busts out of prison, contacts his lover and embarks upon a desperate search for the one woman who witnessed the killing. Unfortunately, the real killer gets to her first Read More

Gelignite Gang

Actors: Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne, Patrick Holt, Simone Silva

Synopsis: His career as a western star having recently come to an end in the US, Wayne Morris is the star of the British The Dynamiters. Morris plays an American insurance investigator, trying to get the goods on an elusive gang of London thieves. The crooks invariably wipe out all evidence by dynamiting Read More

The Iron Petticoat

Actors: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff

Synopsis: Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is a long-lost classic or the unmitigated disaster many have claimed it to be. Essentially a rehash of Ninotchka, the film stars Bob Hope as Chuck Lockwood, an American Read More

Alias John Preston

Synopsis: When John Preston (Christopher Lee) comes out of nowhere to settle in Deanbridge, he rises quickly in the town's small circle of leaders and meets Sally, the daughter of a leading family. He asks her to marry him, but then he begins to have repeating nightmares about a passionate blonde Read More

The Final Column

Synopsis: This crime drama is made up of two different tales of murder gone awry. In the first episode, an angry man plans a murder/suicide to protect his daughter from an extortionist. In the other story, a vengeful doctor hypnotizes his wife's unsuspecting lover and suggests that he break into her room Read More

Police Dog

Synopsis: In this police drama, a cop finds his recently killed partner replaced by an Alsatian police dog. While he adjusts, the one who killed his partner plans to crack a safe. After he breaks in, he is accosted by the cop and his dog. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Weak and the Wicked

Actors: Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Jane Hylton, Sidney James

Synopsis: Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the likes of Ida Lupino, Marie Windsor, Peggie Castle and Hope Emerson. Instead, the film was lensed in Britain, with Glynis Johns and Diana Dors heading the cast. Framed on a 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

The Beggar's Opera

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, George Devine, Hugh Griffith, Daphne Anderson, Mary Clare, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier makes his singing debut in this lively adaptation of John Gay's 18th century theatrical piece The Beggar's Opera. Olivier stars as Captain MacHeath, the leader of all bandits and cutthroats in England. MacHeath is in love with Polly Peachum (Dorothy Tutin), the daughter of beggar Read More

Roadhouse Girl

Synopsis: The British Roadhouse Girl was released in the US as Marilyn, but don't go looking for Ms. Monroe around these parts. Sandra Dorne plays Marilyn, the sexy young wife of ill-tempered garage owner Leslie Dwyer. Assuming that his wife is fooling around with mechanic Maxwell Reid, Dwyer begins Read More

The Yellow Balloon

Actors: Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More, Bernard Lee, William Sylvester

Synopsis: Twelve-year old Frankie (Andrew Ray) feels guilty after his best friend falls to his death when they are playing in a bombed-out London building. Len (Sylvester) is a petty thief who has just become a murderer by killing the pub owner in a botched robbery. Frankie and Len's paths cross, and Len Read More

Wheel of Fate

Synopsis: Two step-brothers who co-own a garage have a violent falling out when the wild one's girl falls for the more responsible sibling. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alf's Baby

Synopsis: Alf Donkin (Jerry Desmonde) and his two nitwitted brothers (C. Dernier Warren and Mark Daly) adopt an orphaned baby girl. She grows up to be the delectable Pauline Stroud, whose beauty and vulnerability prompts the good-hearted Alf to be all the more protective of her. When Pauline falls in love Read More

The Gay Adventure

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kathleen Harrison, Richard Murdoch

Synopsis: Three disparate male travellers quietly amuse themselves by fantasizing about the same beautiful blonde in this interesting, episodic comedy. A French bus driver sees her first and promptly imagines that she is a seductive photographer's model. In his fantasy, the two end up having a passionate Read More

Holiday Week

Synopsis: Jenny, a pretty, independent, factory worker takes a holiday in Blackpool with her friend Mary. She has a week-long affair with Alan, the mill-owner's son, and attempts to conceal it with the collusion of her roommate. This stratagem backfires when Mary is killed. When both sets of parents learn Read More

13 East Street

Synopsis: Scotland Yard detective Patrick Holt is hot on the trail of a gang of thieves. Holt goes undercover, joining the gang and participating in a few heists. The gang catches on, but decides not to kill Holt under their next caper. Will our hero be able to contact the Yard in time save his neck? 13 Read More

Thirteen East Street

Synopsis: In this drama, a fellow tries to prove himself worthy of joining a gang by staging a robbery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Maniacs on Wheels

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Renée Ashershon, Bill Owen, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is quite successful, becomes an egomaniac, loses his wife, and learns his lesson. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Happy Go Lovely

Actors: David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Bobby Howes, Diane Hart

Synopsis: The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered throngs are aghast when unknown dancer Janet Jones (Vera-Ellen) steps daintily from a limousine owned by a Scottish millionaire. A few miles earlier, the girl had thumbed a ride Read More

The Miniver Story

Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Leo Genn, Cathy O'Donnell

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1942 Oscar-winner Mrs.Miniver can be considered ill-advised, if only because the producers could never really hope to match the success of the original. Otherwise, The Miniver Story has its charms, not the least of which were the sterling performances of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon Read More

Don't Say Die

Synopsis: A smuggler's headquarters, an Irish castle, is inherited by Walter-Ellis who is ignorant of the smugglers' activities. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Clouded Yellow

Actors: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More, Maxwell Reed

Synopsis: The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war, Sommers takes a low-profile job cataloguing butterfly specimens. While thus employed, he make the acquaintance of Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons), a curious young lady who seems to 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

All over the Town

Actors: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam, Bryan Forbes

Synopsis: Norman Wooland, who in 1948 made an excellent impression as Horatio in Olivier's Hamlet, is awarded top billing in the 1949 British comedy All Over the Town. A gentle satire of provincial politics, the film stars Wooland as ex-soldier Nat Hearn, who returns to his newspaper job after the war. Read More

Marry Me

Actors: Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: The action in the British Marry Me! centers around a marriage bureau. Utilizing the "omnibus" approach made popular by such films as Quartet, director Terence Fisher relates the stories of four separate marriage-bound couples. The cast (including Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh Read More

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Actors: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, Frederick [Fritz] Valk

Synopsis: This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, but it proved to be such a box office disappointment that Ealing never attempted such a lavish costume drama again. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is a young woman Read More

Eyes That Kill

Synopsis: The story in this war drama is totally fictional. It is the tale of the secretary for the Nazi Party who escapes from Hitler's bunker just before it is destroyed in the Battle of Berlin. He goes to England. There he sets up "The Eyes That Kill," an organization devoted to building up a Fourth Read More