Torin ThatcherFilmography

Mission: Impossible: The Numbers Game

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, May Britt

Synopsis: Guest stars Torin Thatcher and May Britt are cast as Rados and Eva Gollan, respectively the exiled dictator of a South American nation and his ambitious wife. In preparation for regaining power, Gollan has deposited millions in a Swiss bank account. In order to get the account's number, the IMF Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Synopsis: In this made-for-television version of Stevenson's classic tale of terror and suspense, a crazy doctor develops a formula that turns him into a madman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Heir Apparent

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Mission: Impossible launched its third season on September 29 1968 with the episode titled "The Heir Apparent." To save a Balkan monarchy from falling into the hands of Envir Quaisette (Charles Aidman), the IMF concocts a plan built around the legend of Princess Celine, the real heiress to the Read More

Star Trek: The Return of the Archons

Synopsis: Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock must save Lt. Sulu from a form of communal alien mind-control in this episode of the 1960s science fiction series. While undercover on a planet bearing an unusual resemblance to 20th-century Earth, Sulu falls victim to a device that brainwashes him into joining the Read More

The King's Pirate

Actors: Doug McClure, Jill St. John, Guy Stockwell, Mary Ann Mobley, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: This very economical remake of the 1952 Errol Flynn vehicle Against All Flags stars Doug McClure in the Flynn role. Cashiered from the royal navy in disgrace, McClure becomes a buccaneer, guiding his loyal crew to an island completely populated by cutthroats. Here he links up with pirate-captain Guy Stockwell Read More

Lost in Space: The Space Trader

Synopsis: Veteran movie heavy Torin Thatcher guest stars as The Trader, an intergalactic con artists who arrives on the Robinsons' planet in a ship full of attack dogs. As a means of drumming up business, the Trader conjures up a storm which destroys the Robinsons' food and water supply. Recognizing a Read More

Hawaii

Actors: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor, Elizabeth Cole

Synopsis: Hawaii hadn't even begun filming when director Fred Zinnemann was replaced by George Roy Hill; similarly, the role intended for Charlton Heston ended up being played by Richard Harris (though Heston would eventually star in the 1970 sequel, The Hawaiians). Based on James A. Michener's best-selling Read More

The Sandpiper

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- then Hollywood's most bankable couple -- appeared onscreen together for the third time in this romantic drama shot on beautiful locations along the Big Sur region of the California coastline. Laura Edwards (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free-thinking artist and Read More

The Sweet and the Bitter

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Secret of the Loch

Synopsis: Nelson discovers the scientific team that he was supposed to meet in Scotland has been killed, apparently in an encounter with the Loch Ness monster. Using a secret underground conduit, the Seaview journeys to the renowned body of water to investigate. They find something far more nefarious than Read More

The Holy Terror

Synopsis: The story of revolutionary Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale is told in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Bed of Roses

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Kathie Browne, George Lindsey, Torin Thatcher, Alice Backes

Synopsis: Newly married to his boss' daughter, George Maxwell (Patrick O'Neal) takes a taxi to the home of his former girlfriend, intending to end the relationship with a huge financial settlement. Alas, when George arrives at the girl's home, he finds that she has been murdered. Cab driver Sam Kirby (George Lindsey Read More

From Hell to Borneo

Synopsis: A wealthy mercenary lives in blissful solitude upon his private island in the Philippines. This actioner chronicles what happens when it is invaded by pirates, mobsters, and smugglers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Untouchables: The Giant Killer

Synopsis: The latest quarry of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is Ed "The Duke" Monte (Torin Thatcher), who has broken out of a Federal penitentiary to bump off the stoolie who turned him over to the Feds. Monte suspects that he might have been betrayed by his own son-in-law Lou Sultan (Paul Richards), but he Read More

Drums of Africa

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley, Lloyd Bochner, Torin Thatcher, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

Synopsis: Spliced together with plentiful strips of old footage from previous films set in Africa, this routine romantic drama takes place on the east, equatorial region of the so-called "dark continent," in 1897. The story features Mariette Hartley as Ruth Knight and Lloyd Bochner as David, an engineer and Read More

Mutiny on the Bounty

Actors: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic captain. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) boards the ship in Portsmouth, England, to embark on a mission to bring tropical breadfruit trees to Jamaica. Fletcher Christian Read More

Jack the Giant Killer

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Nathan Juran, director of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, tries to make the magic happen again on a much more attenuated budget in Jack the Giant Killer. Torin Thatcher, another Sinbad alumnus, plays a wicked wizard who kidnaps toothsome-princess Judi Meredith. Kerwin Mathews, still another Read More

The Canadians

Actors: Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, John Sutton

Synopsis: In the late nineteenth century, Inspector Gannon (Robert Ryan) is a member of the Northwest Mounted Police (forerunners of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) sent to give a message to the leaders of the Sioux Indian nation. Chased by the U.S. cavalry, the Indians have entered Canada in the wake of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Unwelcome Bride

Synopsis: Wealthy Walter Frazer (Torin Thatcher) has always held his daughter-in-law Sue Ellen (Diana Millay), a former nightclub singer, responsible for the failures of his son Gregson (Bryan Grant), now working as a parking attendant. Hoping to get rid of Sue Ellen, Frazer offers her a huge sum to divorce Read More

Bonanza: Elizabeth, My Love

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Geraldine Brooks

Synopsis: While Ben Cartwright nurses his son Adam through a high fever, his thoughts drift back to Adam's late mother, Ben's first wife Elizabeth (Geraldine Brooks. Ben also recalls his seafaring days under the command of Captain Abel Morgan Stoddard (Torin Thatcher), Elizabeth's father. Also in the cast Read More

The Miracle

Actors: Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Whatever the "miracle" is in this story, set back in the 19th century, it tends to be buried underneath the multiple romances of the heroine Teresa (Carroll Baker), a woman who leaves the convent to find one specific man. Teresa falls in love with Michael (Roger Moore) a dashing Englishman in the Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Relative Value

Synopsis: Heavily in debt, John Manbridge (Denholm Elliott) cannot wait to inherit the money promised him by his wealthy uncle Felix (Torin Thatcher). Hoping to speed up the process, John kills Uncle Felix, and then arranges a "perfect alibi." Only when Felix's body is found does John discover that the Read More

One Step Beyond: Doomsday

Synopsis: In 17th century Scotland, the Earl of Culdane (Torin Thatcher) accuses a young woman named Harriet (Fintan Meyler) of being a witch after his son, the girl's sweetheart, suddenly dies. Condemned to death, Harriet places a curse on the house of Culhane, condemning the eldest sons of all future Read More

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango

Synopsis: Whilst Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) is on his way to Baghdad, transporting the Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant), who is to become his bride and secure peace between her kingdom and his, the ship encounters the isle of Colossa. Sinbad and his men are attacked by a gigantic, bestial one-eyed Cyclops, and Read More

Darby's Rangers

Actors: James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden, Edward Byrnes, Venetia Stevenson

Synopsis: James Garner stars as WWII hero Major William Darby in this characteristically gusty William Wellman combat film. Darby organizes a highly-trained group of rangers, to be deployed in behind-the-lines activities in Italy and Northern Africa. The first portion of the film details the training, with Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole

Synopsis: A strangler is plaguing fog-bound London, and each time the culprit strikes, two men are the first to arrive at the murder scene. One of them is Ottermole (Theodore Bikel), the police sergeant investigating the murders; the other is an obnoxious newspaper reporter (Charles Davis). Trouble is, the Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Actors: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window Read More

Du Pont Show of the Month: Beyond This Place

Actors: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Ann Garner, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: This presentation of The DuPont Show of the Month represented the first time that a novel by A.J. Cronin had been adapted for American television. In the early part of the 20th century, Canadian youth Paul Burgess (Farley Granger) discovers that his father, long believed dead, is languishing in a Read More

Band of Angels

Actors: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Patric Knowles

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop Read More

Istanbul

Actors: Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: In this adventure, a remake of Singapore (1947), a hero finds a bracelet containing 13 precious gems while visiting Istanbul. He soon finds himself pursued by covetous crooks who want those jewels. He is then deported by the Turkish authorities, but not before he has time to hide the bracelet in a Read More

Diane

Actors: Lana Turner, Pedro Armendáriz, Roger Moore, Marisa Pavan, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de Pottiers rising to a position of absolute power through her manipulation of the men in her life. Those men include King Francis I (Pedro Armendariz), Prince Henri (Roger Read More

Lady Godiva

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen, Rex Reason, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva story never happened. At any rate, Maureen O'Hara stars in the title role, as the rebellious Saxon wife of a Norman nobleman. To show her fidelity to her people, and to Read More

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Actors: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson

Synopsis: Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general. She falls in love with American news correspondent Mark Elliot (William Holden), who Read More

Helen of Troy

Actors: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis: Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the title role of Helen of Troy. Filmed in Italy, this super-epic costars Jacques Sernas as Paris of Troy, who sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful Read More

The Black Shield of Falworth

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of Falworth. Based on the robust novel Men of Iron by Howard Pyle, the film casts Curtis as Miles, the son of a disgraced knight. Through the sponsorship of the Earl of Mackworth Herbert Marshall Read More

Knock on Wood

Actors: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin

Synopsis: With the exception of the brilliant The Court Jester, Knock on Wood must rank as the best of Danny Kaye's movie vehicles. Capitalizing on the star's recent successful engagement in London, the film casts Kaye as a neurotic American ventriloquist performing in England and Europe. In a parody of the Read More

Bengal Brigade

Actors: Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Thiess, Torin Thatcher, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: The muscular physique of Rock Hudson is given plenty of screen exposure in the British-India actioner Bengal Brigade. Adapted from a novel by Hall Hunter, the film casts Hudson as Captain Jeffrey Claybourne of Her Majesty's Service, who is severely disciplined after defying orders. Feeling Read More

Houdini

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel, Douglas Spencer

Synopsis: This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini. Janet Leigh, Mrs. Tony Curtis at the time, co-stars as Houdini's wife Bess, while Angela Clarke is seen as Houdini's mother. The film follows Houdini's progress from sideshow Read More

The Robe

Actors: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Synopsis: Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone Read More

The Desert Rats

Actors: Richard Burton, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, James Mason, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with Read More

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Actors: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering Read More

The Crimson Pirate

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter

Synopsis: Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson Pirate stars Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, the smiling leader of a pack of unscrupulous pirates. While on the high seas, Vallo and his men spy a well-stocked merchant Read More

Affair in Trinidad

Actors: Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: In this romantic spy thriller, a nightclub performer plys her trade in her husband's Trinidad bar. He is murdered by a notorious spy. Soon afterward, the police ask the widow to try to get close to the killer and gather information. Her work is nearly thwarted when her bumbling brother-in-law Read More

Blackbeard the Pirate

Actors: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought that Newton's "Arr, matey"s got out of hand in Treasure Island, wait til you see this one. The plot concerns the efforts of the British admirality to bring Blackbeard to Read More

The Fallen Idol

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Bobby Henrey, Sonia Dresdel, Jack Hawkins, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from a child's eye view-but it isn't a children's story. Young Bobby Henrey idolizes household butler Ralph Richardson. Therefore, when it seems as though Richardson might be Read More

Jassy

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Basil Sydney, Dermot Walsh, Linden Travers

Synopsis: Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her teeth-baring best as a tempestuous gypsy girl who is hired as a servant in an aristocratic 19th century household. Dennis Price is her handsome master, with whom she falls in love. Read More

When the Bough Breaks

Actors: Patricia Roc, Rosamund John, Bill Owen, Brenda Bruce, Patrick Holt

Synopsis: Years ago a woman discovers that she married a bigamist and gives her baby boy to a couple for adoption. Now she has remarried and wants the baby back. This heart-wrenching drama chronicles her attempts to do so. Unfortunately, the boy loves his adoptive mother, not her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The End of the River

Actors: Basil Appleby, Dennis Arundell, Nicolette Bernard, Antoinette Cellier, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: East Indian actor Sabu is consistently better than his material in the sociological melodrama End of the River. The story concerns Mancel (Sabu), an Akuna Indian youth living in the forests of Brazil. Betrayed by a treacherous tribal chieftan, Mancel is branded an outlaw and exiled from his Read More

The Man Within

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood, Richard Attenborough, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from the point of view of seaman Andrews (Richard Attenborough), the ward of 19th century smuggler chieftan Carylyton (Michael Redgrave). Feeling persecuted by his stern Read More

I See a Dark Stranger

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Tom Macauley

Synopsis: I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre. Deborah Kerr is terrific as Irish colleen Bridie Quilty, raised from childhood to despise the British and everything they stand for. Bridie's anglophobia proves useful to Nazi spy Read More

Great Expectations

Actors: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations Read More

Saboteur

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually, Cummings is the fall guy for a clever ring of Nazi spies, headed by above-suspicion American philanthropist Otto Kruger. Our hero goes on a cross-country chase after genuine Read More

Next of Kin

Actors: Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins, David Hutcheson

Synopsis: The phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In grade-school-primer fashion, the film shows how careless talk can have a devastating and tragic effect in times of war, sometimes boomeranging on the "talker" in the form of 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

Night Train to Munich

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the Read More

The Lion Has Wings

Actors: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging German-dictator Adolf Hitler and appeasing British prime minister Neville Chamberlain with stock shots of bleating sheep. The film then depicts Great Britain as a great lion, willing Read More

Contraband

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is compelled to ascede to British demands, but dreads Read More

Gasbags

Synopsis: The popular British troupe The Crazy Gang do their zany thing in this fast-paced comedy adventure. The story begins as the Gang balloon themselves over enemy lines. There they become friends with a crazy old prisoner who has the plans for a tunnel-boring tank tattooed upon his back. To get him Read More

Saloon Bar

Actors: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Joyce Barbour, Anna Konstam

Synopsis: Director Walter Forde, a past master at blending mystery, melodrama and comedy (vide The Ghost Train and Bulldog Jack), is at his best with Saloon Bar. Most of the action takes place during one busy evening in an English pub, with a rich variety of believable comic characters weaving in and out of Read More

Let George Do It

Actors: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby plays a dimwitted entertainer who is mistaken for a notorious Nazi spy. The misunderstanding is played to the hilt, culminating with our hero battling the forces of the Axis Read More

Law and Disorder

Synopsis: In this actioner, a flashy young lawyer successfully defends some saboteurs. His friends and family are appalled as are the police. When the attorney is drafted he soon discovers that the people he defended are now using guided missiles. He decides to stop them anyway he can. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Old Mother Riley Mp

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley loses her laundry job and ends up running for Parliament against the man who fired her. Not only does she win, she also forces a foreign government to pay its massive debt to Britain. ~ Sandra Read More

Too Dangerous to Live

Actors: Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam, Reginald Tate, Greta Gynt, Ronald Adam

Synopsis: It took two directors to bring this modest British thriller to the screen. The story concerns a gang of international jewel thieves, headed by a "mystery man" who is never seen and who communicates with his minions through a microphone. Rival criminal Jacques LeClerq (Sebastian Shaw) gains the Read More

The Spy in Black

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez

Synopsis: The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover British intelligence secrets. Once he arrives in the Orkney Islands, he meets up with a female schoolteacher (Valerie Hobson), who happens to be a German agent. Veidt falls in Read More

The Case of the Frightened Lady

Actors: Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Patrick Barr, Felix Aylmer, John Warwick

Synopsis: A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama Case of the Frightened Lady. The story focuses on the aristocratic Lebanon family, with Dowager Lady Lebanon (Helen Hayes) harboring a Deep Dark Secret. It seems that every generation or so, the Read More

Climbing High

Actors: Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim

Synopsis: Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews, Climbing High emerged as a straight romantic comedy, albeit one that sometimes sets up musical numbers that don't occur. Michael Redgrave plays Nicky Brooke, a millionaire Read More

Young and Innocent

Actors: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare

Synopsis: As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as they were thoroughly entertaining-which they were, without fail. Derrick De Marney finds himself in a 39 Steps situation when he is wrongly accused of murder. While a Read More

The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Actors: Barry Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason, Francis Lister

Synopsis: The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape from the dreaded guillotine in this sequel to 1934's The Scarlet Pimpernel. To do so Robespierre kidnaps the Pimpernel's wife and takes her to France. Unfortunately, he is Read More

Knight Without Armour

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor, Basil Gill

Synopsis: Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat star in this gripping melodrama about the Russian revolution, based on the novel by James Hilton. Donat plays A.J. Fothergill, a British interpreter in St. Petersburg who is ordered to leave Russia after writing an article that criticized the czar. Fothergill Read More

Well Done, Henry

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Actors: Roland Young, Joan Gardner, Ralph Richardson, Ernst Thesiger, Robert Cochran

Synopsis: As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers in this fantasy based on an H.G. Wells story. Roland Young stars as George McWhirter Fotheringay, whose new powers are virtually limitless; choosing Read More

Sabotage

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour

Synopsis: Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife Sylvia Sidney doesn't suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she's picked up enough second-hand information about her husband's activities to arouse the interest of government agent (John Loder Read More

School for Stars

Norah O'Neale

Actors: Lester Matthews, Nancy Burne, Molly Lamont, Patric Knowles, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew

Synopsis: In this melodrama set within an Irish hospital, a handsome young physicician is pursued by two women. He is attracted to one of them, but as she has expensive taste he does not feel he can afford to be with her. The other woman is a manipulator and tricks him into an engagement with a kiss. The Read More

Red Wagon

Actors: Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres, Greta Nissen, Don Alvarado, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: Hollywood's Charles Bickford and Mexican leading lady Raquel Torres top the cast of the British circus melodrama Red Wagon. Bickford plays Joe, an expert trick rider, while Torres is his fiery gypsy dancer Sheba. Though in love with tiger trainer Zara (Greta Nissen), Joe breaks up with her over a Read More