Zena Marshall Filmography

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the Read More

The Verdict

Synopsis: In this crime drama a Yankee visiting England ends up arrested for murder. Not wanting to go to prison, he tries to convince his partner into rigging the jury. Unfortunately for him, the partner double-crosses him and justice is served. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Switch

Synopsis: The villains in the British The Switch are members of a wristwatch-smuggling gang. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl. According to our wristwatch, The Switch clocks in at 69 minutes. We'd tell Read More

Dr. No

Actors: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007 in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek style that set the tone for the rest of the popular series. Sean Connery sets the standard by which all future takers must measure Read More

Crosstrap

Synopsis: In this thriller, two gangs of jewel thieves battle it out in a deserted cottage. Murder ensues when the owners of the cabin show up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Backfire!

Synopsis: A business partner, desperate to milk some kind of profit from his failing cosmetics business, turns to arson with deadly results when he inadvertently immolates his partner while trying to destroy the factory. Still he succeeds in getting the insurance money. He then gets greedy and decides to do Read More

The Story of David

Actors: Jeff Chandler, David Knight

Synopsis: This religious epic chronicles the rise to power of a humble but courageous shepherd boy who usurps a ruler and becomes king of Israel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Invisible Man: The Locked Room

Synopsis: Zena Marshall guest stars as Tania, a beautiful scientist from behind the Iron Curtain. Hoping to defect to the West, Tania turns to "Invisible Man" Peter Brady for help, in exchange for assisting him in his efforts to become visible again. Alas, Tania's countrymen kidnap her and attempt to Read More

Footsteps in the Night

Actors: Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, Douglas Dick, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: "Wild Bill" Elliot once again plays diligent police lieutenant Boyle in Footsteps in the Night. This time, Doyle investigates the murder of a friend, who was killed shortly after a high-stakes card game. The principal suspect is Henry Johnson (Douglas Dick), who was heavily in debt to the dead Read More

Let's Be Happy

Actors: Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin, Robert Flemyng, Zena Marshall, Helen Horton

Synopsis: Let's Be Happy is an updated remake of Jeannie (1941), one of the most likable British comedies of the 1940s. The premise is basically the same: A working girl inherits a fortune, goes on a fling, is rescued from a caddish seducer by a down-to-Earth salesman. In Jeannie, the girl uses her legacy Read More

My Wife's Family

Synopsis: This farce is the third movie version of Fred Duprez's play. A newlywed with a dominating mother-in-law attempts to surprise his wife with a baby grand piano, but when she overhears him talking about it, she mistakes it for an illegitimate child, particularly when his old flame shows up. ~ Steve Read More

Bermuda Affair

Synopsis: Ex-Hollywoodite A. Edward Sutherland co-directed the British programmer Bermuda Affair with Robert J. Shaw. Gary Merrill and Ron Randell play a pair of army chums who run a postwar air transport service. Reversing the cliché, it is Merrill, the homelier of the two men, who turns out to be a rat Read More

Three Cases of Murder

Actors: Alan Badel, Hugh Pryse, John Salew, Leucen MacGrath, Eddie Byrne

Synopsis: The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first segment, "The Picture," was directed by Wendy Toye, based on a short story by Roderick Wilkinson. A museum tour guide, Jarvis (Hugh Pryse), is plagued by artworks going missing Read More

The Scarlet Web

Synopsis: In this crime drama an insurance investigator takes a case from a pretty but troubled woman to save her from blackmail and ends up framed for murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Embezzler

Synopsis: After being caught, a bank clerk embezzler flees the scene and is assisted by Marshall who has problems of her own as she is being blackmailed by a former lover. When the bank clerk saves her, he gets killed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Men Against the Sun

Synopsis: The dangers faced by the men who built the first Mombassa-to-Uganda railroad are chronicled in this adventure. The story centers on the supervisor who must cope with a variety of travails including ferocious lions, an a missionary doctor who insists on going. Eventually, he and his hard-working Read More

Deadly Nightshade

Synopsis: A dead man offers an escape for prison fugitive, Jones, who discovers the look-alike body and exchanges identities only to find out later that the dead man was a spy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Caretaker's Daughter

Synopsis: A group of provincial actors are fond of their boss, less fond of his jealous wife. To keep wifey out of their hair, and incidentally to teach her a lesson, the troupe assumes a variety of bizarre disguises. She is allowed to assume the worst; the actors then have ever so much fun proving her Read More

Blind Man's Bluff

Synopsis: Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case. Blind Man's Buff Read More

Operation Disaster - Morning Departure

Synopsis: A foundering British submarine provides the basis for this gripping drama. The trouble begins when the sub strikes a mine. The sub cannot surface, and only twelve on board survived the blast. Now rescuers must save them, but more trouble ensues when the trapped men below are informed that due to Read More

Hell Is Sold Out

Synopsis: In this farce, an enigmatic writer begins using the pen-name Lom, a popular writer believed dead. The dead writer "returns" to peruse his newest book, which he didn't write. He soon meets the woman who is using his name and after several engaging misdirections, the two fall in love and marry. Read More

Soho Conspiracy

Synopsis: The Soho Conspiracy isn't a movie, it's a crazy quilt. The thin plot strand concerns a group of down and out residents of London's Soho district. Pooling their talents, these worthies put on a Big Show to save a church from falling apart. If the musical numbers seemed familiar to British filmgoers Read More

Dark Interval

Synopsis: Zena Marshall endures a Dark Interval in this funereal British melodrama. Marshall plays the new bride of handsome and charming Andrew Osborn. No sooner does the honeymoon commence than Osborn drops his charm (though he's still pretty handsome). Marshall learns to her mounting horror that Osborn Read More

Morning Departure

Actors: John Mills, Helen Cherry, Richard Attenborough, Lana Morris, Nigel Patrick

Synopsis: Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar mission, the sub strikes a forgotten mine and sinks to the bottom. The twelve-man crew comes face to face with the probability of permanent entombment and eventual suffocation; the Read More

The Lost People

Synopsis: The Lost People is a pedantic British drama set in a large, abandoned German theatre just after the War. A disparate group of homeless refugees huddle together within the structure. As they get to know each other, old wounds are opened, social and religious clashes break out, recriminations melt Read More

So Long at the Fair

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now accepted as truth. The year is 1889: the setting, the Paris Exhibition. Among the thousands in attendance are Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson Read More

Snowbound

Actors: Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: A frequent visitor to the Late Late Show, the Anglo-American Snowbound is set in the frozen Alps. Robert Newton and Dennis Price head an expedition in search of a fortune of gold, stashed away by the Nazis in the last days of the war. Snowed into an old cabin, the men quickly get on one another's Read More

The Lost People

Actors: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhan McKenna, Maxwell Reed

Synopsis: Shortly after the end of World War II, a pair of British soldiers hold an increasingly hostile group if refugees in a German theater in preperation for returning them to their homelands. Confused by the seemingly constant struggle that still surrounds them despite the official declaration that the 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

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 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

Meet Simon Cherry

Synopsis: Meet Simon Cherry was based on a popular BBC radio program of the 1940s titled Meet the Rev. Hugh Moxey plays the title role, a Father Brown-style clergyman who solves crimes when he isn't saving souls. This time around "Rev" Cherry must prove that an wealthy old recluse wasn't murdered, as it Read More

Good Time Girl

Actors: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result. One of Gwen's disreputable comrades, a Read More

Miranda

Actors: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous mermaid. Rescued from a watery grave by the finny-tailed Miranda (Johns), handsome doctor Paul Marten (Griffith Jones) agrees under durress to take his lovely rescuer to Read More

So Evil My Love

Actors: Ann Todd, Ray Milland, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Moira Lister, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in London. Based on a novel by Joseph Shearing, whose previous Gothic romances included Moss Rose and Blanche Fury, the film stars Ray Milland in his first (but hardly his last) 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

Caesar and Cleopatra

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration Read More

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Actors: Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick de Marney, Paul Dupuis, Rona Anderson

Synopsis: Sleeping Car to Trieste is a remake of one of the best railroad melodramas of the 1930s, Rome Express. The film's "maguffin" is a diary containing important political information. Stolen from a diplomat in Paris, the diary finds its way on board the Orient Express. Already, the two thieves have Read More