Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteFilmography

Heartburn

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "a clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential food critic who marries charismatic columnist Mark (Jack Nicholson) Read More

Fanny Hill

Actors: Lisa Raines, Shelley Winters, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of a wealthy family in this softcore version of an old British tale. When the clan patriarch dies, Fanny is ready to marry her lover until she discovers he has been unfaithful Read More

The Letter

Synopsis: In this drama, adapted from a W. Somerset Maugham novel, a philandering wife is accused of killing her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Toy

Actors: Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In The Toy, director Richard Donner and screenwriter Carol Sobieski update the 1976 Pierre Richard farce Le Jouet as a vehicle for comedian Richard Pryor. Pryor stars as out-of-work journalist Jack Brown, who's hit with the sudden realization that his idle book writing won't pay a 10,000-dollar Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Guardians

Synopsis: An episode of the television series, with Buck, Wilma, Hawk, and the crew plunged into strange surroundings because of a mysterious green box. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tarzan, the Ape Man

Actors: Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law, Miles O'Keeffe, Akushula Selayah, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: John Derek directed this 1981 vanity production of the Tarzan tale as a bon-bon for his wife Bo Derek. The Bo Derek version answers any questions viewers may have had concerning Tarzan and Jane's sex life. The film begins as Jane (Bo Derek)'s father Parker (Richard Harris) heads to the African Read More

Scout's Honor

Synopsis: In this children's movie, a single executive enjoys her life on the fast track, but when she is talked into becoming a den mother to a rambunctious pack of Cub Scouts, her life is temporarily derailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Xanadu

Actors: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James J. Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss

Synopsis: In this film, the mysterious Kira (Olivia Newton-John) appears to assist and inspire a young artist, Sonny Malone (Michael Beck). When she helps him meet up with the rich Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), the two join up together to create an artistic and business success, an unique club called Read More

In God We Trust

Actors: Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: Comedian Marty Feldman directed and co-wrote this satire of the less-scrupulous side of organized religion. Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman) is a monk who has spent nearly his entire life within the walls of his monastery and knows little of the outside world. However, when he learns that the Read More

Oh, God! Book II

Actors: George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, Louanne, John Louie

Synopsis: In this mild sequel to the 1977 appearance of George Burns as God, the Heavenly Father shows up again, this time to talk to Tracy (Louanne), a young girl whose earthly father (David Birney) is in the advertising business. God's intention is to promote himself among the children first. Tracy comes Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Murder on the Moosejaw Express, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are still trying to solve a murder while hurtling towards Canada on the Moosejaw Express. The girls have been warned to "beware the bald man"--who has apparently already caught up with them and poisoned Read More

Damien: The Leper Priest

Synopsis: More formally known as Father Damien: The Leper Priest, this made-for-TV biopic stars a heavily-wigged Ken Howard in the title role. Father Damien was a Belgian priest who, in 1873, was assigned a far-from-desirable congregation: the leper colony of Molokai in the Hawaiian islands. At first Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Murder on the Moosejaw Express, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) climb aboard the legendary Moosejaw Express in anticipation of a thrilling train ride from Wisconsin to Canada . It's thrilling, all right, but not in the way the girls had expected. No sooner has the Read More

Battlestar Galactica

Actors: Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Jane Seymour, Dirk Benedict

Synopsis: This feature-length movie is a re-edited version of the first few episodes of the TV series. The story line concerns a spaceship full of survivors of a doomed planet who are headed to the Earth. Led by Commander Adama (Lorne Greene), they encounter villainous robots, threatening their journey to Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Cosmic Wiz Kid

The Cat and the Canary

Actors: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey

Synopsis: Frank Willard's 1927 stage play The Cat and the Canary was filmed several times before this 1978 version saw the light of day. In the story, Annabelle West (Carol Lynley) is one of several potential heirs to a huge fortune. Brought to his foreboding mansion to learn who will benefit from his Read More

No Longer Alone

Actors: Belinda Carroll, Roland Culver, James Fox, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Simon Williams

Synopsis: The religious conversion of British actress Joan Winmill is chronicled in this bio-pic. Told via flashback her life up until that moment is chronicled from her miserable childhood, her mother's death, and a cousins death. Her bout with clinical depression resulting in suicidal tendencies is also Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World, Part 3

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In Part Three of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, the survivors of the war between the Cylons and Mankind have been lured into a trap on the planet Carillon. Thanks to some quick thinking on the part of Galactica's Cmdr. Adama (Lorne Greene), Adama's son Apollo (Richard Hatch), and Apollo's Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World, Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In Part Two of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, Galactica's Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) has managed to escape the death trap arranged by the scurrilous, metallic cylons and human traitor Baltar (John Colicos). With the other survivors of the apocalyptic battle between the Cylons and the 12 Read More

The Great Houdinis

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Vivian Vance, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and his wife Bess. Studiously avoiding covering the same ground as the 1953 Houdini theatrical-film biopic, director Mel Shavelson's script for Great Houdinis spends a great deal Read More

King Solomon's Treasure

Synopsis: With only an ancient medallion to guide him, a British explorer launches an adventure-packed expedition to a mysterious lost Phoenician city in the heart of Africa were Solomon's fabulous treasure is said to be hidden in this low-budget Canadian fantasy-adventure. During the dangerous journey, the Read More

A Brand New Life

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman and Martin Balsam star in this TV movie as an over-forty married couple, both of whom maintain busy outside careers. Content with their peaceful, childless existence, the couple is thrown for a loop when, after 18 years of marriage, Leachman becomes pregnant. Beyond the Read More

Assault on Gavaloni

Fragment of Fear

Actors: David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: This chilling mystery begins when Lucy Dawson (Flora Robson) is found strangled in her apartment. Her nephew Tim (David Hemmings) is the former-drug-addict-turned-successful-author who wrote a book about his experiences. When Tim looks into his aunt's death, people give sketchy answers and the Read More

Skullduggery

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Paul Hubschmid, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: A team of anthropologists travel to New Guinea in search of the missing link in this routine adventure tale. The expedition is financed by Vancruysen (Paul Hubschmid) and lead by Dr. Sybil Greame (Susan Clark). Also on hand are Douglas Temple (Burt Reynolds) and the boozy Otto Kreps (Roger C. Read More

Gaily, Gaily

Actors: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: Ben Hecht's reminiscences from his youth as a cub reporter in 1910 Chicago makes an uneasy transition to the screen in this Norman Jewison production. During the Galena, Illinois, Independence Day celebration of 1910, Ben Young (Beau Bridges) determines that it is time to seek his fortune and sets Read More

Ritual of Evil

Actors: Louis Jourdan

Synopsis: Ritual of Evil was a sequel to the earlier TV movie Fear No Evil; both were pilots for a never-realized Universal series, Bedevilled. Louis Jourdan stars as a psychiatrist investigating the suicide of one of his patients. He stumbles onto the realization that the death was tied in with the Read More

Run a Crooked Mile

Synopsis: Made for television, Run a Crooked Mile is an kaleidoscopic espionager filmed in Britain. Louis Jourdan plays a schoolteacher on holiday who is injured in an serious auto accident. When he awakens, Jourdan discovers that two years have elapsed, during which time he has lived the life of a wealthy Read More

Fear No Evil

Synopsis: Richard Alan Simmons, scriptwriter of Fear No Evil, evidently held fond memories of the old British chiller Dead of Night (a cornucopia of inspiration for programs like The Twilight Zone). The "Mirror Sequence" in the earlier film was gussied up for the basic plotline of this 1969 TV-movie. Bradford Dillman Read More

The Magic Christian

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Christopher Lee, Caroline Blakiston, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Read More

P.J.

Actors: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the Read More

The Sunshine Patriot

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: Cliff Robertson essays a dual role in the made-for-TV Sunshine Patriot. He portrays a top secret agent as well as an American businessmen; both Robertsons are currently behind the Iron Curtain, both on "business." In order to evade a team of assassins and to smuggle valuable microfilm to the Good Read More

The Million Eyes of Su-Muru

Actors: Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Two Yankee spies team up with British intelligence to stop the beautiful but deadly Su-Muru, a woman with eyes literally on ruling the world. Having gathered an enormous army of gorgeous women, she and her minions use their considerable wiles and natural attributes to enslave the world's most Read More

Mission: Impossible: Echo of Yesterday

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

Synopsis: Powerful but gullible German industrialist Otto Kelmann (Wilfred Hyde-White) is on the verge of handing over his munitions empire to a "new Hitler" named Colonel Marcus Von Frank (Hans Gudegast), aka Eric Braeden). It is up to the IMF to smash Marcus' movement by forcing Kelmann to realign his Read More

The Sandwich Man

Actors: Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a sandwich-board advertising man who gets a tour of London and sees some of the city's most offbeat and outrageous characters in this situation comedy. British blonde bombshell (Diana Dors) co-stars. Watch for Michael Chaplin (son of Charlie) as a beatnik artist. Read More

Chamber of Horrors

Actors: Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Patrick O'Neal, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore

Synopsis: This dull House of Wax variant involves a claw-handed escaped maniac (Patrick O'Neal), who rampages through late 19th-century Baltimore on a mission of vengeance. Hot on his trail are the proprietors of a "House of Horrors" wax museum and their Mexican dwarf sidekick Tun-Tun. Initially conceived Read More

Our Man in Marrakesh

Actors: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Terry-Thomas, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Films like Bang, Bang, You're Dead helped kill the movie career of Tony Randall in the mid-1960s. Randall plays an innocent oil company representative who gets tied up with a gang of crooks in Morocco. The head criminals, played by Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski, plunge Randall into the middle of a Read More

The Liquidator

Actors: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot people, and would rather stay at home! Col. Mostyn (Trevor Howard) is the head of a special branch of British intelligence who is appalled to discover that a number of his Read More

You Must Be Joking?

Actors: Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, Terry-Thomas, Gabriella Licudi, Patricia Viterbo

Synopsis: You Must be Joking? draws its laughs from an Army endurance test. Over a 48-hour period, five officers in the British army-including American transplant Michael Callan-must wend their way through a maze, retrieve a hood ornament from a Rolls Royce and steal a lock of hair from beauteous pop singer Read More

Ten Little Indians

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise Read More

My Fair Lady

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper

Synopsis: At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic Read More

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

The Twilight Zone: Passage on the Lady Ann

Actors: Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady." Hoping to save their tattered marriage, Alan and Eileen Ransome (Lee Philips and Joyce Van Patten) book passage on a luxury liner bound for England. Their first indication Read More

Aliki - My Love

Actors: Aliki Vouyouklaki, Jess Conrad, Paris Alexander

Synopsis: Pretty Aliki Vouyouklaki had starred in several successful Greek films, notably the previous year's I Aliki Sto Naftiko, when the decision was made to promote her internationally. To that end, Finos Films entered into an atypical co-production with Aquarius Films for this outing, helmed by Read More

Crooks Anonymous

Synopsis: This comedy features a 12-step Program for habitual hoods. The recovering criminal takes a job as a department store Santa, and again finds himself confronted with temptation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

In Search of the Castaways

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Anderson, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence. Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere play the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a Read More

His and Hers

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books are created by the adventures he experiences, thanks to the brainstorms of his editor. His latest adventure finds him truly lost in the desert and adopted by a tribe of Read More

On the Double

Actors: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day. Trouble begins when he is caught pretending to be the most important generals in England, a man he closely resembles. The two look so much alike that military intelligence Read More

Ada

Actors: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Dean Martin plays an easygoing Southern politician, long on charm but short on brains. Susan Hayward, a poor girl with rich ideas, marries Martin and endeavors to engineer him into the governor's chair. Though no saint herself, Hayward is determined to overcome the good-old-boy corruption Read More

Operation Snafu

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King

Synopsis: Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more Read More

Two-Way Stretch

Actors: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Peter Sellers stars as an inmate in a "model prison" run by Maurice Denham. Though Sellers is disinclined to escape (he's never been as comfortable in his life), he is convinced to do so by phony vicar Wilfred Hyde-White, who breaks into jail to outline a robbery scheme. Hyde-White's plan is to Read More

Let's Make Love

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest man in the world and looking for someone who loves him instead of his money. He reads in Variety he is to be satirized in the new production and tries out for the part. The Read More

Life in Emergency Ward 10

Actors: Michael Craig, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Owen

Synopsis: This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10. A surgeon arrives from the U.S. with a new heart-lung machine in order to save a young boy who has a hole in his heart. The doctor is treated coolly by a jealous rival, and an old man dies while on the new life-saving machine. 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

Northwest Frontier

Actors: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, I.S. Johar

Synopsis: Northwest Frontier was the original British title for Flame Over India. When the Moslems attack a British fortress in colonial India, it is imperative that the local Maharaja's son be taken to safety. The man for the job is commander Kenneth More, who uses a rusty old train for that purpose. Among Read More

The Lady Is a Square

Actors: Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott, Anthony Newley

Synopsis: A musical and comedic bit of fluff without any other pretensions, The Lady Is a Square plays off the popularity of Frankie Vaughan to help carry the story as Johnny Burns, a young man with a passion for pop music. He insinuates his way into the home of the widowed Frances Baring (Anna Neagle) by Read More

Carry on Nurse

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Terence Longdon, Leslie Phillips, Bill Owen, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce. There's not much of a plot, but plenty of nudging and winking, as the male patients line up by their bedpans as a mixed assortment of female nurses tend to their every whim. Read More

The Truth About Women

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling, Eva Gabor

Synopsis: In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his wide-eyed son-in-law. Tavistock has come to the conclusion that women are a riddle wrapped in a mystery surrounded by an enigma, and his reminiscences bear this out. Among the Read More

Wonderful Things?

Actors: Frankie Vaughan, Jackie Lane

Synopsis: Wonderful Things was one of two Frankie Vaughan vehicles produced in the late 1950s by actress Anna Neagle. The popular British recording artist is cast as a Gilbraltar fisherman named Carmello, who vies with his brother Mario (Jeremy Spenser) over the attentions of the beauteous Pepita (Jackie Read More

Up the Creek

Actors: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Vera Day, Liliane Sottane

Synopsis: Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an inept railroad stationmaster, the hero of the remake, Lt. Fairweather David Tomlinson, is an inept naval officer. Transferred to the HMS Berkeley, a decrepit WW2-vintage Read More

City After Midnight

Actors: Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy, Petula Clark, Jack Watling

Synopsis: The British That Woman Opposite is better known by its American title City After Midnight. Dan O'Herlihy stars as detective Kinross, presently investigating the murder of antique dealer Sir Maurice (Wilfred Hyde-White). The principal suspects are the dead man's son Toby (Jack Watling) and Toby's Read More

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Actors: Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Tarzan and the Lost Safari is the first MGM-released Tarzan picture since 1942, and the first of the series to be lensed in color. Gordon Scott plays the Lord of the Jungle, herein guiding a group of high-society types through the jungle after their plane has crashed. Since there's no Jane in the Read More

The Vicious Circle

Synopsis: Originally released in Britain as The Circle, The Vicious Circle was based on the BBC TV series The Brass Candlestick. John Mills plays a respected doctor who comes home one evening to find the body of a murdered actress of his acquaintance. The police are summoned, and the murder weapon is found Read More

Cash on Delivery

Actors: Shelley Winters, John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Mona Washbourne

Synopsis: Time is of the essence in this comedy when an American cabaret singer learns that she is in line for a large inheritance. The money will be hers if her ex-husband cannot produce a son by a given date. She immediately takes off to London to find him. Unfortunately, she discovers that his new wife Read More

The March Hare

Actors: Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Martita Hunt, Cyril Cusack, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: Set in Ireland, The March Hare stars Terence Morgan as Sir Charles Hare, a wastrelly aristocrat who gambles away his family fortune. About to be evicted from his ancestral racing stables, Hare decides to stay on when he's mistaken for a groom by the new American owner's pretty daughter Pat Maguire Read More

The Silken Affair

Actors: David Niven, Geneviève Page, Ronald Squire, Beatrice Straight

Synopsis: Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who finds himself digging deeper and deeper into trouble. Not only is he suddenly smitten by a French model (Geneviève Page) despite his marriage to his wife (Dorothy Alison) 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

My Teenage Daughter

Actors: Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Kenneth Haigh

Synopsis: What was the lady-like Dame Anna Neagle doing in something called Bad Girl -- or, as it was renamed in certain regions, Teenage Bad Girl? In point of fact, the film was originally and more tastefully titled My Teenage Daughter when Neagle signed on. Neagle plays Valerie Carr, the editor of a Read More

John and Julie

Actors: Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley, Noelle Middleton, Moira Lister, Peter Sellers

Synopsis: Scads of color stock footage from the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth was strategically deployed in John and Julie. The story involves two little provincial children (Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley) whose parents have no plans to attend the Coronation. Left to their own devices, John and Julie run Read More

See How They Run

Synopsis: In this crazy British comedy, a Cockney corporal dreams of getting promoted so that he can finally receive his inheritance. To facilitate the raise in status, he masquerades as a priest and goes out one night with the vicar's glamorous, blond wife. His action starts a trend and soon he runs into a Read More

Duel in the Jungle

Actors: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, David Farrar, Patrick Barr, George Coulouris

Synopsis: In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond broker who drowned while diving for diamonds off the African coast. The broker had been insured for over $1 million. The sleuth's prime suspect is the broker's fiancee. He Read More

Betrayed

Actors: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: Clark Gable's final effort for his longtime home studio MGM, Betrayed is an exciting espionage thriller set during World War II. Intelligence agent Gable is ordered to keep tabs on suspected Nazi collaborator Lana Turner (a brunette for the occasion). Both Gable and Turner join the Dutch Read More

The Million Pound Note

Actors: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis: Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by Mark Twain. Gregory Peck plays Henry Adams, an impecunious American living by his wits in London. Henry becomes the object of a wager between millionaire brothers Oliver and 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

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

Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow

Actors: George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick [Fritz] Valk, Geoffrey Sumner

Synopsis: Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George embarks on his annual vacation, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless broom-pusher. 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

The Promoter

Actors: Alec Guinness, Petula Clark, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young clerk Alec Guinness works his way up the financial ladder until he has become a successful and highly respected loan officer. Actually, Guinness is not as above-board as the Read More

Mr. Denning Drives North

Actors: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wanamaker, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a sudden fit of rage, Denning murders the scoundrel. Panicking, he drives northward with the corpse in the back seat, dumps the body in a lonely rural area, and carefully Read More

Mister Drake's Duck

Synopsis: This early nuclear satire offers a twisted retelling of the old fairy tale "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg." The story begins as two American newlyweds move to live on an English farm recently inherited by the husband. Unaccustomed to the ways of British country auctions, the husband Read More

No Highway in the Sky

Actors: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as Theodore Honey, a widower and single parent to 11-year-old Elspeth (Janette Scott). He's also an absent-minded engineer who has formed a scientific theory about metal Read More

Blackmailed

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng, Michael Gough

Synopsis: Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a novel by Elizabeth Myers, the film casts Zetterling as Mrs. Carol Edwards, whose husband lies in a hospital bed, afflicted with asthma. Mrs. Edwards becomes a murder suspect Read More

The Browning Version

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brian Smith, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his life may be a failure, in this powerful adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play with a screenplay by Rattigan himself. Poor health forces Crocker-Harris to give up his teaching Read More

Midnight Episode

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate, Meredith Edwards

Synopsis: Stanley Holloway carries the ball, comedically and dramatically, in the British Midnight Episode. Holloway plays "The Professor," a tattered hobo who recites Shakespeare for pennies. He also picks up spare change by opening car doors for theatre patrons. While thus occupied, the Professor is Read More

The Angel with the Trumpet

Actors: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Anthony Bushell, Maria Schell

Synopsis: Eileen Herlie, a German girl of Jewish heritage, is in love with Norman Wooland, but at her family's insistence marries Basil Sydney. Wooland's reaction is swift and decisive: he commits suicide. Years later, Hitler comes to power. Once more, Herlie's fate is in the hands of others. This time Read More

The Mudlark

Actors: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray, Beatrice Campbell, Anthony Steel, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: The mudlark is Andrew Ray, an illiterate London street urchin of the mid-19th century. Having seen a picture of Queen Victoria on a coin, Ray determines to meet the Great Lady, and to that end he sneaks into Windsor Castle. Victoria (Irene Dunne in a padded costume) has sequestered herself in the Read More

Trio

Actors: James Hayter, Anne Crawford, Felix Aylmer, Nigel Patrick, Lana Morris, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie, Michael Hordern, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Trio was the 1950 follow-up to the successful Somerset Maugham "omnibus" feature Quartet. Maugham himself introduces the three short playlets in this captivating collection. "The Verger" stars James Hayter as a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor Read More

Highly Dangerous

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Britain's Margaret Lockwood is teamed with Hollywood's Dane Clark in Highly Dangerous. Set in a mythical Iron Curtain country, the film casts Lockwood as an entomologist who hopes to stop a planned volley of bacteriological warfare. Facing danger at every turn, our heroine is rescued time and Read More

The Golden Salamander

Actors: Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Miles Malleson, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he finds himself entangled with a murderous band of arms smugglers. The story is based on one of Victor Canning's novels. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Last Holiday

Actors: Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Coco Aslan, Jean Colin

Synopsis: Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He withdraws all his savings from the bank and heads to a posh hotel. Here he makes more contacts and opens more professional doors than he'd ever done before, thanks to his Read More

The Bad Lord Byron

Actors: Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Mai Zetterling, Sonia Holm, Linden Travers

Synopsis: George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in this lavish British chocolate-box epic. From the vantage point of his deathbed, Byron recalls his life and many loves, imagining that he's pleading his case before a Read More

The Forbidden Street

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Dana Andrews, Sybil Thorndike, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Anthony Tancred, Fay Compton

Synopsis: The Anglo-American co-production Britannia Mews was released in the U.S. as The Affairs of Adelaide, then reissued as Forbidden Street, the title it carries today. Set in the Victoria era, the film focuses upon Adelaide (Maureen O'Hara), a young lady of good family who renounces both name and fame Read More

Conspirator

Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda Greyton, the new bride of highly respected Major Michael Curraugh (Robert Taylor). It comes as quite a jolt when Melinda learns that her husband is actually a spy for the Read More

The Winslow Boy

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Neil North, Basil Radford, Jack Watling, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is prevented by existing British law to clear his son's Read More

The Third Man

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that Read More

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Actors: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace

Synopsis: Though hampered by a small budget that shrank with each shooting day, director Burgess Meredith fashioned a serviceable film version of Georges Simenon's A Battle of Nerves. Retitled The Man on the Eiffel Tower, the film pits Simenon's analytical Inspector Maigret (Charles Laughton) against a wily Read More

My Brother's Keeper

Actors: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, Bill Owen, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: Anticipating The Defiant Ones by nearly ten years, the British My Brother's Keeper concentrates on the exploits of two handcuffed-together escaped convicts. The protagonists are career criminal George Martin (Jack Warner) and terrified "first timer" Willie Stannard (George Cole). The film is one Read More

Adam and Evelyne

Actors: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Edwin Styles, Raymond Young, Helen Cherry

Synopsis: Adam and Evelyne stars Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, who were husband and wife in the 1950s. Granger plays a "sang froid" gambler with little room for emotional entanglements in his life. When his best friend dies, Granger agrees to adopt the friend's daughter. She grows up to be Jean Simmons; Granger Read More

If This Be Sin

Actors: Roger Livesey, Myrna Loy, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Gerard Heinz

Synopsis: The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast as Lady Brooke, the wife of famed barrister Sir Brian Brooke (Roger Livesay). Neglected by her husband, Lady Brooke inaugurates an affair with a younger man. Meanwhile Read More

My Brother Jonathan

Actors: Hilda Bayley, Beatrice Campbell, Mary Clare, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the responsibility of supporting his mother and paying for his brother's education. He becomes a partner in a small practice and watches the woman he wanted to marry go off with his Read More

Helter Skelter

Synopsis: A persistent case of hiccups causes all sorts of problems for a pretty young socialite in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Passionate Friends

Actors: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel Dean

Synopsis: David Lean directed this romantic drama, scripted by Eric Ambler from a novel by H.G. Wells. Mary Justin (Ann Todd) is married to wealthy financier Howard Justin (Claude Rains), and while their marriage allows her to lead a comfortable lifestyle, there's little excitement in their relationship. Read More

Quartet

Actors: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole, Jack Raine, Cecil Parker, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful Read More

Meet Me at Dawn

Actors: William Eythe, Stanley Holloway, Hazel Court, George Thorpe, Irene Browne

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is set in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. It tells the story of a professional duelist who is hired by politicians to insult and challenge an important senator. He does this by pretending to have a tiff over a young woman whose father runs the local newspaper. 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

While the Sun Shines

Actors: Barbara White, Ronald Squire, Brenda Bruce, Bonar Colleano, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Director Anthony Asquith's first postwar effort, While the Sun Shines was based on a play by frequent Asquith collaborator Terence Rattigan. Set in WW2 London, the story revolves around Lady Elizabeth Randall (Barbara White), who is serving her country as an Air Force corporal. While en route to Read More

Night Boat to Dublin

Actors: Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: If nothing else, the British melodrama Night Boat to Dublin had topicality going for it. As Captain David Grant, Robert Newton heads the cast of this spy-hunt caper. The plot concerns the efforts to rescue a Swedish scientist from the clutches of Nazi ringleader Keitel (Herbert Lom) and his Read More

Wanted for Murder

Actors: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground. She's delayed by the train for a meeting with her friend Victor Colebrooke (Eric Portman) at Hampstead Heath; the two of them take a liking to each other while she's trying to Read More

The Demi-Paradise

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Leslie Henson

Synopsis: Demi-Paradise stars Laurence Olivier as a Russian inventor (accent and all). In Europe to promote his new propeller device, Olivier is put off by English customs and manners-or, rather, the lack of the latter. No one in 1939 England trusts a foreigner, least of all one of those shifty "Reds", but Read More

Lady from Lisbon

Synopsis: In this British espionage comedy, an opportunistic South American woman will do anything to get her hands on a copy of the Mona Lisa. When she hears the Nazis have it, she offers to do some spying in Lisbon in exchange for the painting. Suddenly, many different 'Mona Lisas' begin to surface. After Read More

Asking for Trouble

Synopsis: British music-hall comedian Max Miller ("The Cheeky Chappie") always had difficulty transferring his risque style to films, principally because the censors were on their guard the moment he sashayed into view. Asking for Trouble is a relatively "clean" Miller farce, though Max manages to slip a Read More

It's Turned out Nice Again

Actors: George Formby, Edward Chapman, Peggy Bryan, Mackenzie Ward, Hay Petrie

Synopsis: In this comedy, a groom's constant jealousy creates domestic turmoil for his devoted bride. More trouble comes when he buys a lot of untried material for the lingerie factory where he works as a foreman. The material proves flimsy and he is fired. Things get worse when his overbearing and Read More

The Lambeth Walk

Actors: Lupino Lane, Sally Gray, Seymour Hicks, Norah Howard, Enid Stamp Taylor

Synopsis: Lambeth Walk is the film version of the evergreen West End musical Me and My Girl, which was still being successfully revived into the 1980s. The enormously popular music-hall entertainer Lupino Lane repeats his stage characterization as Bill, a diffident working-class cockney who finds himself Read More

Poison Pen

Actors: Flora Robson, Reginald Tate, Ann Todd, Geoffrey Toone, Athole Stewart, Robert Newton

Synopsis: In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning anonymous letters are posted accusing different residents of scandalous acts. The townsfolk are soon so panicked that murder and suicide ensue until the police hire an expert to Read More

I've Got a Horse

Synopsis: In this comedy, a man becomes the owner of a race horse, at least he thought it was a race horse. As he watches the beast lightly prance down the homestretch the poor man realizes that he has a circus horse. Naturally the horse loses. The pragmatic fellow then decides to give up the racetrack in Read More

Over the Moon

Actors: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borell

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for her "poor" relation and selflessly keeping him company until he dies, she is later shocked to learn that he has left her an enormous fortune. One might think such a windfall Read More

Meet Mr. Penny

Synopsis: In 1954 there was Godzilla, the lizard transformed by radiation, and in 1959, the British gave us Behemoth, the Sea Monster, Godzilla's Anglo, radiated cousin. Now there is the "man of steel" in this undistinguished, "B"-grade, sci-fi melodrama that was the last film directed by Allan Dwan. The Read More

Change for a Sovereign

Synopsis: This British comedy tells the tale of the king of Ruritania who finds a drunken look-a-like to replace him while he takes a much needed vacation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Elephant Boy

Actors: Sabu, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes, W.E. Holloway, Bruce Gordon

Synopsis: The unusual amalgam of documentary maven Robert Flaherty and pure-entertainment producer Zoltan Korda resulted in the 1937 money-spinner Elephant Boy. In his screen debut, eleven-year-old Indian-born Sabu plays the title character, a mahout named Toomai. When his father is killed by a tiger Read More

Murder by Rope

The Scarab Murder Case

Smith's Wives

Alibi Inn

Synopsis: This 53-minute British "quota quickie" was released in the U.S. by MGM. Frederick Bradshaw plays an eccentric inventor wrongly accused of a crime. He escapes, scurrying away to the inn of the title. Here he locates the thieves responsible for the crime for which he was blamed. The leading lady of Read More

Admirals All

Actors: Wynne Gibson, Gordon Harker, Anthony Bushell, George Curzon, Joan White

Synopsis: Admirals All was based on the British stage farce by Ian Hay and Stephen-King-Hall. Wynne Gibson takes over from the stage version's Laura La Plante as temperamental American movie star Gloria Gunn. While on board a battleship for publicity purposes, Gloria is kidnapped by a band of comic-opera Read More

Night Mail

Actors: C.M. Hallard, Henry Oscar

Josser on the Farm

Synopsis: Farm worker Ernie Lotinga confronts a greedy entrepreneur who wants the farm leading to his election as a magistrate and finally his marriage to his dream girl. ~ All Movie Guide Read More