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Directed by Basil Dearden,
Alberto Cavalcanti,
Charles Crichton,
Robert HamerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Anthology film,
HorrorThemes Ghost filmsActors Michael Redgrave,
Mervyn Johns,
Renee Gadd,
Frederick Valk,
Roland Culver,
Sally Ann HowesRating74%
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house party where he reveals to the assembled guests that he has seen them all in a dream. He appears to have no prior personal knowledge of them but he is able to predict spontaneous events in the house before they unfold. The other guests attempt to test Craig's foresight, while entertaining each other with various tales of uncanny or supernatural events that they experienced or were told about. These include a racing car driver's premonition of a fatal bus crash; a light-hearted tale of two obsessed golfers, one of whom becomes haunted by the other's ghost (cut from the initial USA release); a ghostly encounter during a children's Christmas party (another tale cut from the initial USA release); a haunted antique mirror; and the story of an unbalanced ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) who believes his amoral dummy is truly alive. The framing story is then capped by a twist ending., 1h20
Directed by Basil Dearden,
Will HayOrigin United-kingdomGenres War,
ComedyThemes Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Political films,
Documentary films about World War IIActors Will Hay,
John Mills,
Basil Sydney,
Henry Hewitt,
Felix Aylmer,
Frank CellierRating66%
When he is forced to vacate the office of his debt-ridden correspondence college, 'Professor' Will Davis (Will Hay) goes to the Ministry of International Commerce at Whitehall in order to confront his one-and-only student, PR man Bobby Jessop (John Mills). To get Davis off his back, Jessop proposes to get him a job at Whitehall. Jessop then leaves in order to fetch a Professor Davys at the railway station. The professor is a leading economist who has returned from a long stay in South America in order to advise the British government on a trade treaty with the South American nations, which could be crucial to Britain's war effort., 1h35
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Mervyn Johns,
Glynis Johns,
Sally Ann Howes,
Françoise Rosay,
Richard Bird,
Tom WallsRating65%
David Davies, un célèbre chef d'orchestre, apprend qu'il ne lui reste que trois mois à vivre et son médecin lui propose de faire un séjour à The Halfway House, un petit hôtel situé dans une partie isolée du Pays de Galles. Parallèlement, Richard French est également en route pour l'hôtel avec sa fille, Joanna, qui à son insu ses parents discuter de leur projet de divorce. À la gare, ils rencontrent un jeune couple, Terence et Margaret, et tous les quatre marchent ensemble jusqu'à l'hôtel. Se rendent également à l'hôtel William Oakley, un profiteur de guerre, et son ami le capitaine Fortesque, qui vient de refuser de travailler comme directeur de prison parce qu'il ne veut pas contribuer à l'effort de guerre., 1h30
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
WarThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Disaster filmsActors James Mason,
Tommy Trinder,
Philip Friend,
Mervyn Johns,
William Hartnell,
Finlay CurrieRating66%
On 3 September 1939, at the start of World War II, several East End Londoners join the London County Council Auxiliary Fire Service. Tommy Turk (Trinder) is a light-hearted gambler who avoids work, living with his mother (Varley) who runs a local fish and chips shop. Tommy has bought a greyhound pup he names "Short Head" and hopes to race. Bob Matthews (Friend) is a newcomer to the East End who just lost his job and has to postpone his wedding to Nan Harper (Hiatt) as a result. Tommy and Bob meet in The Hopvine, a pub run by Ma and Pa Robbins (Muriel George and Pierce), whose son Ted (Mason) is a fireman with the London Fire Brigade. Ted's girl Susie has just joined the brigade as a dispatcher, but Ma Robbins' cannot hide her thinly disguised disapproval of Susie's love of dance halls. The Army won't accept new enlistments, so Tommy persuades Bob to join the AFS with him. Sam, a small-time thief of Guinness, inadvertently joins the service trying to avoid the clutches of Eastchapel Police Constable O'Brien (Richard George), who dogs him with the persistence of Javert. The three are assigned immediately to the "Q" sub-station of the East End's District 21, set up in a school to train under Ted., 1h39
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres DramaThemes Films about animals,
Sports films,
Films about horses,
Horse sports in filmActors Robert Morley,
Kay Walsh,
Edward Underdown,
Bill Owen,
Honor Blackman,
Charles VictorRating63%
A champion jockey, having forfeited his own career by taking a bribe, takes a young rider under his wing., 1h44
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
WarThemes Prison films,
Political filmsActors Michael Redgrave,
Rachel Kempson,
Mervyn Johns,
Frederick Leister,
Jack Warner,
Gordon JacksonRating69%
In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave) of the Czech army escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners of war, captured during the Fall of France, on a march to a prison camp., 1h56
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Heist filmsActors Jack Hawkins,
Nigel Patrick,
Roger Livesey,
Bryan Forbes,
Richard Attenborough,
Kieron MooreRating71%
A manhole opens at night in an empty street and out climbs Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde (Jack Hawkins) in a dinner suit. He gets into a Rolls-Royce and drives home. There, he prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback called The Golden Fleece, ten £5-notes cut in half (i.e. £50 in total with the other halves) and an unsigned invitation from “Co-operative Removals Limited” to lunch at the Cafe Royal., 1h50
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Spy filmsActors Oliver Reed,
Diana Rigg,
Telly Savalas,
Curd Jürgens,
Clive Revill,
Vernon DobtcheffRating63%
In London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. To bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed)., 1h24
Directed by Basil Dearden,
Alexander MackendrickOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Noir,
Crime,
RomanceActors Jack Warner,
Jimmy Hanley,
Dirk Bogarde,
Robert Flemyng,
Jack Warner,
Bernard LeeRating67%
The action mostly takes place in the Paddington area of London, and is set in July 1949, a few years after the end of the Second World War. PC George Dixon (Warner) a long-serving traditional "copper" who is due to retire shortly, takes a new recruit, Andy Mitchell (Hanley), under his aegis, introducing him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic Ealing "ordinary" hero, but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of Tom Riley (Bogarde). Called to the scene of a robbery at a local cinema, Dixon finds himself face-to-face with Riley, a desperate youth armed with a revolver. Dixon initially tries to talk Riley into surrendering the weapon, but Riley panics and fires. Dixon is taken to hospital, but dies some hours later. The ending is another Ealing quirk, with ordinary, decent society banding together with professional criminals and dog-track identities to track down and catch the murderer, who tries to hide in the crowd at White City greyhound track in West London. To Andy Mitchell falls the honour of arresting Riley.