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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
Actors: Kamlesh Gupta, Laura Jane Goodwin, Frank Grimes, Edward Kelsey, Sydney Bromley
Synopsis: Two young orphans escape their evil guardian to search for a magic stone in this sentimental children's adventure tale. Nine-year-old Pablo (Kamlesh Gupta) and his younger sister Maria (Laura Jane Goodwin) escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate (Edward Kelsey), and are helped by the Read More
Actors: Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis
Synopsis: Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a difference. Captain Red (Walter Matthau) runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor (Cris Campion). One day Capt. Red is Read More
Actors: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre
Synopsis: A special-effects laden medieval fantasy adventure, Dragonslayer centers on the attempts of a young sorcerer's apprentice to defeat a vicious dragon and save a lovely young maiden. Peter MacNicol stars as the young Galen, an aspiring magician under the tutelage of the aging Ulrich (Ralph Richardson Read More
Actors: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Brian Glover
Synopsis: While wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice as characters in horror films always are, the two Read More
Actors: David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan
Synopsis: Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if she cannot raise the money needed to pay taxes on the estate, she and the large crew of orphans she has taken in will be thrown out. Legend has it that one of her ancestors, a Read More
Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott
Synopsis: A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark Twain. Tom Canty (Mark Lester) is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward (also played by Lester), the son of King Henry Read More
Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cushing, Derek Farr
Synopsis: The New Avengers begins its two-season run with "old" avenger John Steed (Patrick Macnee), as fastidious and gentlemanly as ever, teamed with two new, young, and attractive partners: Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a sexy, cool-headed martial arts expert (sound familiar?), and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a Read More
Actors: Charlie Drake
Synopsis: In this comedy an odd-ball science teacher and his young protege begin experimenting with their new shrinking formula. Unfortunately, it works too well. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith
Synopsis: The sixth entry in Hammer Films' Frankenstein series, this film finds Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in charge of a lunatic asylum. When young doctor Simon Helder (Shane Bryant) is institutionalized for attempting to create synthetic life, Frankenstein is delighted: now he'll have an assistant Read More
Actors: Terence Bayler, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Selby, John Stride, Vic Abbott, Stephen Chase
Synopsis: Perhaps William Shakespeare meant to have Lady Macbeth perform her sleepwalking scene in the nude -- it was this X-rated scene and the film's much-publicized spurts of violence, rather than the brilliant performances of Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis as his Lady, that lured crowds to Roman Polanski Read More
Synopsis: This collection of music focusing on British musical talents. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl
Synopsis: Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's second mistake is to prolong the joke for 96 minutes. Tushingham and Redgrave play a couple of dimwitted North Country girls who head to London, in hopes of breaking into Read More
Actors: Martine Beswicke, Michael Latimer, Edina Ronay
Synopsis: Filmed on the sets of One Million Years B.C., this adventure fantasy centers on a hunter who accidentally ends up lost and stranded in a mysterious world ruled by statuesque, raw-meat eating, big-haired and scantily-clad brunettes who enslave their blonde sisters and worship the horns of Read More
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Synopsis: The famed British horror trio of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and director Terence Fisher brought John Lymington's sci-fi novel Night of the Big Heat to the screen in this slow-moving shocker. The plot concerns a small British island where alien protoplasm creatures are attempting to raise the Read More
Actors: Roman Polanski, Jack MacGowran, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robbins, Sharon Tate
Synopsis: A pair of bumbling vampire-hunters attempts to destroy an undead nobleman and his cronies and rescue a buxom maiden in actor/director Roman Polanski's playful update of the venerable vampire genre. Bat expert and vampire obsessive Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) barely survives his journey Read More
Actors: Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Grover Dale, Penelope Horner, Elaine Taylor
Synopsis: British musical star Tommy Steele had starred in Half a Sixpence in London and on Broadway, thus he was first choice for this garish film version. Based on the H.G. Wells story Kipps (previously filmed in 1941 with Michael Redgrave), Half a Sixpence tells the tale of a humble London drapery clerk Read More
Synopsis: In this holiday tale three London urchins find adventure as they struggle to bring a Christmas tree across town to a hospital. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this children's film, a gang of boys try to prove that the innocence of a peer wrongly accused of stealing the school bell. They succeed and the real crooks are brought to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzanne Farmer, Terence de Marney
Synopsis: Also known as Monster of Terror, this British-made horror opus is very loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space". The story begins with an American scientist (Nick Adams) paying a visit to the remote estate of his fiancee's family (located in Lovecraft's fictional Arkham Read More
Actors: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Sally Smith, Ron Barker
Synopsis: In this lively British comedy, a newlywed couple's quaint country cottage becomes a nightmare of repairs as they try to fix it up themselves. They originally purchased the ramshackle pile to escape the influence of the new wife's meddlesome father. Unfortunately, the place needs more help than Read More
Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Synopsis: In one of the best of the long-running Carry On series, Western clichés are run through the Carry-On wringer. The film takes place in wild and woolly Stodge City, a town held in thrall to the nasty dealings of The Rumpo Kid (Sidney James). The Rumpo Kid holds the town in such abject terror that Read More
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
Actors: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper
Synopsis: In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the swamps of a small seaside town and the nocturnal activities of the towns' men provide the atmosphere and action. The Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in this locale, and they send Read More
Actors: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett
Synopsis: Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top crook Stanley Baker plans a clever bank robbery. It goes off hitchless, but the clerk responsible for "laundering" the stolen money insists upon a bigger percentage of the Read More
Actors: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud
Synopsis: After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a convicted killer serves his time and after his release sets off in search of those who framed him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
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
Actors: Richard Arlen, Greta Gynt, Donald Houston, Mary Germaine, Elspet Gray
Synopsis: The Devil's Harbor is a second-string British melodrama starring American film vet Richard Arlen. Arlen is the captain of a small boat that is commandeered by narcotics smugglers. Though he himself is ignorant of the drug traffic, Arlen is hounded by an insurance investigator (Donald Huston). The Read More
Synopsis: Originally filmed in 1934 (see entry 84314), R.C. Sheriff's venerable stage comedy Badger's Green was given another screen treatment in 1949. The plot is the same as before: a group of villagers revolt when their precious cricket field is threatened with demolition by a fat-cat business firm. Most Read More
Actors: Sally Gray, Eric Portman, Patrick Holt, Dermot Walsh
Synopsis: In this costume drama, a woman finds herself the prize in a battle between two jealous brothers. Eventually she marries the suave one, but finds that he is most displeased by her inability to behave in a matter he deems appropriate for a woman of her station. The sad wife takes her troubles to the Read More
Actors: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Synopsis: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British Read More
Actors: Harry Welchman, Percy Marmont, Beckett Bould, Valentine Dunn
Synopsis: This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. Beth is played, quite well indeed, by a magnificent animal named Fleet. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship. When a farmer is Read More
Synopsis: A factory secretary is disclosed as being a thief by discharged Army soldiers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
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