Search results for "Basil Dearden"
The Man Who Haunted Himself

The Man Who Haunted Himself

The Man Who Haunted Himself
IMDb: 6.4
88

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau
IMDb: 6.4
110

In 1908 London, a women’s rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of…

Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf
IMDb: 5.9
104

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

Masquerade

Masquerade

Masquerade
IMDb: 5.5
102

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw
IMDb: 6.8
122

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.

Genre: Crime
A Place to Go

A Place to Go

A Place to Go
IMDb: 6.5
86

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.

Genre: Crime
The Mind Benders

The Mind Benders

The Mind Benders
IMDb: 6.4
109

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique,…

Genre: Uncategorized
Life for Ruth

Life for Ruth

Life for Ruth
IMDb: 7.1
93

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would…

Genre: Uncategorized
Victim

Victim

Victim
IMDb: 7.7
100

Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr’s career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However,…

Genre: Crime
Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon
IMDb: 6.1
98

William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research…

Genre: Comedy
All Night Long

All Night Long

All Night Long
IMDb: 7.1
91

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear…

Genre: Music
Sapphire

Sapphire

Sapphire
IMDb: 7.2
92

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects — including the…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen
IMDb: 7.2
116

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth
IMDb: 7
83

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill’s long-lost uncle has died and left them…

Genre: Comedy
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
IMDb: 7.1
80

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Who Done It?

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
IMDb: 5.7
85

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame
IMDb: 6.7
95

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,…

Genre: Crime
The Rainbow Jacket

The Rainbow Jacket

The Rainbow Jacket
IMDb: 6.4
99

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Square Ring

The Square Ring

The Square Ring
IMDb: 6.5
83

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

Genre: Uncategorized
I Believe in You

I Believe in You

I Believe in You
IMDb: 6.8
95

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of “The Blue Lamp”(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Gentle Gunman

The Gentle Gunman

The Gentle Gunman
IMDb: 6.4
86

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Pool of London

Pool of London

Pool of London
IMDb: 7.1
85

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Genre: Crime
Cage of Gold

Cage of Gold

Cage of Gold
IMDb: 6.4
80

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp
IMDb: 6.8
84

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat….

Genre: Crime
Train of Events

Train of Events

Train of Events
IMDb: 6.5
88

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Genre: Uncategorized
Saraband for Dead Lovers

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Saraband for Dead Lovers
IMDb: 6.5
96

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever…

Genre: History
Frieda

Frieda

Frieda
IMDb: 7.2
98

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped…

Genre: War
The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart
IMDb: 7
104

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany…

Genre: War
Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
IMDb: 7.5
103

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that…

Genre: Horror
They Came to a City

They Came to a City

They Came to a City
IMDb: 6.3
78

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Genre: Fantasy
My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend
IMDb: 7.1
74

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Halfway House

The Halfway House

The Halfway House
IMDb: 6.6
95

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as…

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.6
89

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz…

Genre: War
The Goose Steps Out

The Goose Steps Out

The Goose Steps Out
IMDb: 6.5
79

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
IMDb: 6.7
80

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

Genre: Comedy