Charles Saunders

Birth : 1904-04-08, London, England, UK

Death : 1997-04-20

Movies

Danger by My Side
Director
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
The Gentle Trap
Director
A young locksmith becomes involved in crime.
Operation Cupid
Director
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Jungle Street
Director
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing the money and his girlfriend to boot. Unfortunately the police are in hot pursuit.
Nudist Paradise
Director
An American art student in England falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman. It turns out that she's a nudist, and in spite of his misgivings, he decides to join her at her nudist camp.
Naked Fury
Director
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl - provoking a serious falling-out and a violent conclusion to the disastrous heist.
Strictly Confidential
Director
Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks.
Womaneater
Director
A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
Date with Disaster
Director
A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.
The End of the Line
Director
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
Kill Her Gently
Director
A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.
The Man Without a Body
Director
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. The business man decides to steal the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.
There's Always a Thursday
Director
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
Find the Lady
Director
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
Behind the Headlines
Director
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
The Narrowing Circle
Director
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
A Time to Kill
Director
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.
The Hornet's Nest
Director
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
One Jump Ahead
Director
Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated trail.
Scarlet Web
Director
An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
Meet Mr. Callaghan
Director
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
Black Orchid
Director
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
Love in Pawn
Director
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation. Eventually, the husband arrives back at the houseboat just in time to prevent the wife from leaving him.
Come Back Peter
Director
There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
Blind Man's Bluff
Director
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.
Death of an Angel
Director
The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the world of Baxter; thus, when she is murdered, the authorities are out for blood. Dr. Barr seems above suspicion, at least until he begins behaving eccentrically. As time passes, most everyone learns that Baxter wasn't quite as angelic as she seemed-and that quite a few people might have wanted her dead.
One Wild Oat
Director
A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.
Dark Interval
Director
A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seems to be.
Your Witness
Assistant Director
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Fly Away Peter
Director
Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.
Tawny Pipit
Writer
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Tawny Pipit
Director
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Back-Room Boy
Editorial Services
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
The Four Just Men
Editor
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
The Gaunt Stranger
Editor
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
O.H.M.S.
Editor
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
Everything Is Thunder
Editor
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
Detective Lloyd
Editor
A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
No Exit
Producer
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
No Exit
Writer
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
No Exit
Director
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.