Max Varnel

Películas

The Rivals
Director
A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a note - a ransom letter - directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped. The two gangsters stole the abductor's car and when they find the note, they decide to take advantage of the situation and collect the money.
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Director
Two convicts escape from prison, complicating life for their widowed mother when they return home to hide out.
Part-Time Wife
Director
Insurance salesman Tom and his wife Jenny are struggling through the first years of marriage in a modest flat, on Tom's even more modest salary. By contrast Drew, Tom's old army pal, is a footloose bachelor currently running a car-hire firm owned by his rich uncle, who lives in Canada. Since Drew's uncle makes it clear that his nephew will only inherit the business when he's a respectable married man, his upcoming visit throws Drew into a panic. Having taken a fancy to the vivacious Jenny, Drew persuades her to masquerade as his wife – an arrangement that leads the trio into some highly complicated situations!
Fate Takes a Hand
Director
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
A Question of Suspense
Director
A young woman sets out to get revenge against a rich man who murdered her lover.
Enter Inspector Duval
Director
Inspector Duval comes to London to help crack the case of a socialite murdered during a jewel heist.
Murder in Eden
Director
Max Varnel’s British mystery thriller. After discovering a famous painting is a forgery, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham.
Return of a Stranger
Director
An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.
A Taste of Money
Director
An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
Sentenced for Life
Director
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.
Crash Drive
Director
Paul Dixon (Dermot Walsh) is a fiercely competitive racing driver whose meteoric career is cut short after he is paralyzed in a collision. Ann, Paul's conflicted, estranged wife (Wendy Williams), tries to help her husband overcome his self-pity to become productive once again. Paul's perception of himself as a cripple is challenged by his new friend, a former dancer (Anton Rodgers), who urges Paul to strive for rehabilitation and new goals. [Netflix]
No Safety Ahead
Director
In this crime drama, an impoverished but enamored bank clerk joins his brother's gang of bank robbers so he can afford to marry his sweetheart. Unfortunately, their latest caper fails and the bank clerk accidentally gets involved in a murder leaving him to take a hard look at the life he has chosen.
The Child and the Killer
Director
Joe Marsh (Robert Arden) is a U.S. Army captain who goes on the run in Britain after committing murder. He breaks into a family's home and forces 7-year-old Tommy Martin (Richard Williams) to guide his escape through the surrounding rural territory. A bond begins to form between the child and the desperate fugitive, but Marsh's criminal nature cannot help but show itself again before the chase comes to an end.
The Great Van Robbery
Director
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
Moment of Indiscretion
Director
Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a potentially lethal motive, which lead them to suspect her of committing the crime. Their suspicions increase when Janet is less than forthcoming about a visit she paid to a former beau. Happily, her loyal husband (Ronald Howard) swears by her innocence and quickly leaps into motion to find the real killer.
A Woman Possessed
Director
English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go too far when John accuses Katherine of trying to kill Ann with medication. Could she do such a thing -- and will these three ever have a good relationship?
Policía internacional
Second Unit Director
Victor Mature es un agente de narcóticos que persigue a un peligroso traficante. Dada la dificultad de la empresa, cambia de táctica y decide centrarse en su atractiva cómplice para llegar hasta él. Todo un reto también pues la tendrá que seguir por medio mundo.
Odongo
Producer
Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) es un cazador duro que atrapa y guarda animales salvajes en un santuario africano para venderlos a zoológicos y circos. Cuando contrata a un nuevo veterinario llamado "P.J. Muir", no se imagina que la "P" representa a Pamela, interpretada por la hermosa Rhonda Fleming.
El detective
Assistant Director
Adaptación del relato de Chesterton "La cruz azul" (incluido en "El candor del Padre Brown"). El padre Brown (Alec Guinness), un sagaz y excéntrico párroco muy aficionado a desentrañar casos detectivescos, pierde una preciada cruz medieval que debía llevar de Londres a Roma. El autor del robo es el conocido ladrón de obras de arte Gustave Flambeau (Peter Finch), un experto en disfraces al que el perspicaz sacerdote intenta atrapar no sólo para recuperar la cruz, sino también para salvar su alma.
Estrella de la India
Assistant Director
Estamos en la Francia del siglo XVIII, en la corte del Rey Sol; un aristócrata vuelve de la guerra y se encuentra con sus posesiones usurpadas por una bella viuda, que dice haberlas adquirido. Para recuperar su castillo, el noble habrá de recuperar para la hermosa hembra cierta valiosa joya.
The Magic Box
Assistant Director
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.