James Robertson Justice

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.

The true story of the events leading up to the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in February of 1692.

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.

Dick Van Dyke interpreta a un excéntrico inventor de nombre Caractacus Potts, que consigue convertir un viejo coche de carreras (llamado originalmente "Paragon Panther") en un vehículo que podía volar y flotar sobre el agua al que denominó Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Con este coche viaja junto a su padre (Lionel Jeffries), sus hijos (Heather Ripley y Adrian Hall) y a su bella enamorada (Sally Ann Howes) al mundo mágico de los piratas, castillos y viven aventuras sin fin. Juntos se enfrentan al Barón Bomburst (Gert Fröbe) y a otros villanos. Destaca también en el reparto James Robertson Justice en el papel de Lorde Scrumptious.

Tres directores trasladan a la pantalla tres relatos de Edgar Allan Poe sobre almas atormentadas por el sentimiento de culpa, la lujuria y la codicia: Federico Fellini rueda "Toby Dammit", Louis Malle, "William Wilson" y Roger Vadim, "Metzengerstein".

El archiduque Rodolfo, heredero del Imperio Austro-Húngaro, lleva una vida tediosa a pesar estar rodeado de toda clase de lujos. Incluso sus amoríos le aburren, pero un día conoce a Marie y se enamora perdidamente de ella. Sin embargo, el emperador Francisco José considera que Marie no es una mujer adecuada para ser emperatriz.

On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.

Historia de una mujer desgarrada entre su amor por dos hombres diferentes.

Investigando un asesinato y una serie de robos, un detective de Scotland Yard va a parar a la mansión de una rica y extraña familia que convive con un grupo de monjas. El detective sospecha que las monjas no son lo que aparentan.

Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.

Un abogado inglés se enamora de una joven baronesa austriaca que, junto con su padre, roba joyas del cuello de una mujer aplicando el llamado "sistema de un dedo y medio" de su abuela.

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

Una serie de misteriosos estrangulamientos en Londres hacen sospechar a Nyland Smith, de Scotland Yard, que el diabólico Fu Manchú sigue vivo.

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items

En 1910 tiene lugar una gran carrera entre Londres y París que es patrocinada por el rico editor de un periódico británico. Los participantes proceden de todas partes y protagonizan toda clase de peripecias, rivalidades y aventuras amorosas.

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.

"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

Murdoch Troon es un sencillo funcionario que está locamente enamorado de Claire, hija de un prestigioso millonario. Con la intención de impresionar al padre de su querida, Murdoch aprenderá a conducir un antiguo coche deportivo.

Para hacerse cargo de una herencia, Geneviève, una joven tan guapa como inocente, llega a una pequeña ciudad francesa y se aloja en un hotel. Accidentalmente, la joven se confunde de habitación, llegando a tiempo para salvar la vida de un alcohólico que ha decidido suicidarse. Entre ambos surgirá una relación sentimental.

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?

Miss Marple cree haber presenciado un crimen: mientras viaja en el tren de Paddington y su tren se cruza con otro, cree ver por la ventanilla como, en el otro tren, una joven es estrangulada . Pero la policía no encuentra evidencias de que el crimen se haya cometido y cree que ha sido una alucinación de la anciana, con lo que ésta decide investigar por su cuenta. La primera de las cuatro películas en las que Margaret Rutherford interpretó a miss Marple.

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), los alemanes dominan las aguas del Mediterráneo gracias a un eficaz sistema de defensa que los aliados no pueden contrarrestar. La causa de la superioridad alemana es el fortín de Navarone, que, gracias a sus gigantescos cañones, cierra el paso a la navegación por el mar Egeo.

A finales de 1942, sir Ernest Pease, un investigador científico tan eminente como carente de sentido del humor, es embarcado en un bombardero para que pueda comprobar en directo el funcionamiento del radar que ha diseñado. Para no despertar alarmas ni sospechas se le inventa la personalidad de teniente Farrow. Pero el bombardero es atacado y el falso teniente, que cae en terreno enemigo, es apresado por la Luftwaffe y llevado a un campo de prisioneros. Para Sir Pease lo peor de la situación es tener que compartir cabaña y actividades diarias con un grupo de compatriotas que tratan de llevar su encierro de la mejor manera posible y que para él no son más que ‘idiotas irresponsables’. El Primer Ministro británico logra enviar un mensaje a los prisioneros: han de hacer lo imposible para que importante personaje escape del campo.

The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

Un agente alemán en Libia vuelve a Rommel con información falsa.

Comedia picarona sobre las peripecias de Michael Craig y la hija de su jefe.

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

Bruce Campbell decide trasladarse a Canadá cuando se entera de que a su abuelo le queda poco tiempo de vida. Llega allí con la clara idea de hacerse cargo de la herencia que recibirá cuando él falte. Pero los lugareños no tienen ninguna prisa por conocerlo, pues no sienten simpatía por el abuelo ya que creen que en su tierras había petróleo. (FILMAFFINITY)

An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Drama de aventuras en el mundo de las carreras de autos. Un espía que debe robar documentos relacionados con un nuevo motor para un equipo contrincante desata una ola de violencia. (FILMAFFINITY)

Desde el cuartel general de los Estados Unidos en la Alemania Occidental se detecta el acercamiento de un avión ruso. La nave está tripulada por Vinka Kowallenka, capitán del Ejército Soviético y tercera mujer piloto de su país.

Nueva adaptación de la novela homónima de Herman Melville. Ahab, el capitán del Pequod, un barco ballenero, vive obsesionado por dar caza a Moby Dick, la gran ballena blanca que le arrancó una pierna y lo llenó de odio y sed de venganza. Por esta razón, consagra su vida a navegar incansablemente por los siete mares con el fin de capturar a su presa.

En 1865, el Regimiento Royal North Harvey se dispone a partir para Egipto para sofocar la rebelión de los derviches. Al mismo tiempo, el oficial Harry Faversham ha decidido abandonar el ejército, decisión que no comparten ni sus familiares ni sus amigos. Nuevo remake de "Las cuatro plumas", dirigida también por Korda. En este caso incluso usó el mismo guión y parte del rodaje de la versión anterior.

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

El faraón Keops ordena construir la pirámide donde reposarán sus restos cuando acceda a la vida de ultratumba. Su propósito es que supere a todas las realizadas en cualquier parte del mundo, pero la construcción se interrumpe al agotarse las canteras más próximas. Para reanudarla, decide cobrar tributos a Chipre, donde reina la bellísima y ambiciosa princesa Nellifer, con la que acaba casándose

El joven médico Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) ejerce su profesión en “El Loto”, un buque de carga dirigido por el autoritario y borrachín Capitán Hogg. Allí conoce a los personajes más excéntricos y se ve involucrado en situaciones bastante embarazosas. Cuando en Río ve a Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), una joven y atractiva cantante francesa, cae rendido a sus pies.

II Guerra Mundial. La marina de guerra británica se encuentra amenazada por el acorazado alemán Tirpitz. Con una gran potencia de fuego, sobretodo sus ochos cañones de 381 milímetros con alcance de hasta 34 kilómetros, este acorazado podría acabar fácilmente con sus líneas de suministros marítimos, siendo este un riesgo que Inglaterra no puede consentir. Resguardado en el fiordo de Trondheim, Noruega, es imposible atacarlo con una oportunidad de éxito. Pero el Comandante Fraser (John Mills) propone un ingenioso y arriesgado plan. Su idea consiste en llegar a Trondheim camuflados con un pesquero noruego y una vez próximos al objetivo usar tres submarinos de bolsillo experimentales que deberán depositar bajo su casco varias cargas explosivas subacuáticas.

A day following workers at an airport

Simon Sparrow es un joven estudiante de medicina que llega al hospital de St Swithin's de Londres. Animado por sus amigos, empieza a salir con una enfermera de la que acaba enamorándose.

Después de la derrota de 1715 de los clanes, uno de los líderes de las tierras altas, Rob Roy MacGregor, escapa, se casa y, con el tiempo suficiente, se convierte en una gran molestia para George I.

En el año 1514, siendo rey de Inglaterra Enrique VIII, su hermana Mary Tudor se compromete con Luis XII, Rey de Francia, para sellar la unión entre los dos países. Pero la joven conoce a Charles Brandon, un apuesto y humilde abogado del que se enamora perdidamente.

A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.

Tras robar una barra de pan para alimentar a una familia hambrienta, Jean Valjean es sentenciado a galeras durante diez años. En esa época conoce a Javert, un obsesivo policía hijo de convictos. Tras su liberación, Valjean es tratado como un paria y sólo encuentra refugio con un amable obispo que reforma su vida. Sin embargo, una pequeña infracción provoca la persecución de Valjean por el ascendido Javert, una persecución que consumirá las vidas de ambos hombres durante muchos años.

Para conquistar a Lady Marian el joven Robin Hood competirá en un torneo de arqueros junto a su padre. De regreso a casa, serán atacados, y su apdre será asesinado a manos de los hombres del Príncipe John. Pero el crimen le será atribuido a Robin y se convertirá en un proscrito en el bosque de Sherwood.

The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photographer and decides she'd rather say yes.

El capitán Providence, el último de los grandes piratas es, en realidad, una mujer, Anne, que siente un profundo odio hacia los ingleses porque mataron a su hermano. Tras el abordaje de un navío inglés, Anne libera a un francés que dice ser corsario y es enrolado en el barco de la mujer pirata, el Reina de Saba.

Después de matar al gigante Goliath y salir victorioso de innumerales batallas, David (Gregory Peck) es proclamado rey de Israel. Subyugado por la hermosa Betsabé (Susan Hayward), decide enviar a su marido Uriah (Kieron Moore) a participar en una difícil batalla en la que probablemente perecerá.

En el siglo XIX, el capitán inglés Horatio Hornblower atraviesa el Atlántico con su barco para ayudar a un enloquecido dictador centroamericano.

Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

En el siglo XIII, un noble inglés (Tyrone Power) se ve forzado a abandonar su país, después de encabezar una fallida rebelión contra el rey. Acompañado de un amigo (Jack Hawkins) decide viajar a Mongolia, donde conocerá a un poderoso "señor de la guerra" (Orson Welles).

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

Prelude to Fame is a 1950 British drama film directed by Fergus McDonell from a story by Aldous Huxley. While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un barco cargado de whisky naufraga en una isla de Escocia. Los isleños, que no han podido beber alcohol desde hace tiempo, empiezan a idear toda clase de estratagemas para burlar a las autoridades y apoderarse del cargamento.

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.

Historia del explorador Robert Falcon Scott y su intento de ser el primero en llegar al Polo Sur.

"Cuarteto" es una película británica con cuatro segmentos, cada uno basado en una historia de W. Somerset Maugham. Cada segmento es presentado por el autor. Fue un éxito y eso propició producir dos secuelas "Trio" (1950) y "Encore" (1951), y popularizó el formato de película de compendio. Los guiones de las historias fueron escritos por R. C. Sherriff.

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.

Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.