Philip Friend
Nacimiento : 1915-02-20, Horsham, Sussex, England, UK
Muerte : 1987-09-01
The Vicar
Extraños sucesos acontecen en la pequeña población de inglesa de Cornwall, relacionados con un antiguo y horripilante crimen, en la que fue enterrado vivo un hombre. Pero alguien que no ha olvidado aquello, un científico descendiente de aquel desafortunado decide vengarse de los descendientes creando en si mismo una horripilante mutación que lo convertirá en un monstruoso ser.
Steffan
A movie star is typecast as a ruthless gangster. His troubles begin when he gets reality confused with his job and becomes deluded into believing that he really is a mobster.
James Random
A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
Dorchester
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Dr. Jim Bennett
When a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills.
Michael McCall
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
Major Felix Gratton
A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?
Dick Turpin
A Hammer Films short recounting the adventures of Dick Turpin.
Insp. McClaren
While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis O'Keefe) assists Scotland Yard Insp. McClaren (Philip Friend) in his search for a missing atomic scientist (Paul Hardtmuth). The detective duo discovers that the key to solving both cases may rest with the scientist's daughter (Margaret Sheridan) and her fascinating diamond.
John Lomax
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Capt. Bob Sawyer
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
Sidney Kingham
Cuando una reclusa condenada por asesinato es trasladada al lugar de la ejecución, debido a una inundación todos tendrán que refugiarse en un convento. Allí una monja tratará de descubrir al verdadero criminal.
Jeremy
Allan Craig
An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.
Chris Denson
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger. Corrected from an original submission by Guy Bellinger.
Frederic Baptiste (aka Capt. Robert Kingston)
Deborah McCoy se mete como polizón en un barco sin saber que se trata del barco pirata del capitán Baptiste. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lt. Ellerton
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Pelham Dane
El tío Rollo finalmente se retira a la casa en la que él fue criado. Perdido en los pensamientos de su amor perdido, Lark, él no quiere ser molestado en sus útimos días. Sin embargo, la aparición de su sobrina y el romance entre ella y el sobrino de su Lark, hace que él reconsidere su vida y ofrezca algún consejo a la joven pareja para que no caigan en el mismo error que cometió, hace ya muchos años.
Michael Heath
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
Geoffrey Winthrop
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Fernard Matagne
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
John Cooper
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Bob
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 and fire bombings of WWII.
Torps
Cuenta la historia del destructor HMS Torrin, desde su construcción hasta su hundimiento por aviones alemanes en la batalla de Creta, Segunda Guerra Mundial. El único capitán que tuvo fue E.V. Kinross, experimentado marino que entrena a sus hombres, no sólo para que le sean leales, sino para que lo sean a su país y a ellos mismos. Se enfrentarán a retos en el mar y en casa, perderán a compañeros en el mar y seres queridos en casa, pero cumplirán su misión con heroísmo y valentía.
Lt. Cummins
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
Pilot
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Damon Ravel
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 ...
Dr. Peter Hammond
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
Spencer
Europa, 1939. Alemania y Gran Bretaña se encuentran a punto de enfrentarse en una nueva guerra. El profesor Horatio Smith viaja con sus estudiantes a la Europa continental para participar en una excavación arqueológica, pero cuando sus alumnos descubran que lo que busca Smith es construir un camino que facilite la huida a los enemigos del nazismo, lo apoyarán con más ahínco. Sin embargo, el plan se complica cuando un estudiante introduzca en el grupo a una misteriosa mujer que resulta ser una espía de la Gestapo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pete
En Polonia, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un joven pianista huye de su país para continuar su carrera profesional. Al poco tiempo conoce a Carole Peters, una periodista estadounidense de la que se enamora y con la que viaja a Inglaterra. Pero, al llegar allí, se alista en un escuadrón aéreo polaco y vuelve a su país para rescatar a sus camaradas. Carole no duda en acompañarle.
(uncredited)
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
David Morgan
A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....
Richard Neale KC
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
(uncredited)
British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.