Frank Forsyth
Nacimiento : 1905-12-19, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1984-05-02
Family Doctor
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Jessop
En el Londres victoriano, Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn), una viuda rica, es víctima de una demanda judicial por parte de un antiguo novio. Contrata entonces al prestigioso abogado Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) para que la defienda. Sir Arthur, que había sido su amante cuarenta años antes, ve la oportunidad de reanudar la relación con la que ahora es su cliente. Primera película hecha para televisión del maestro George Cukor. Ganó seis premios Emmy.
Uncle Albert (segment "Penny Farthing")
Un psiquiatra que regenta una moderna clínica mental recibe la visita de un colega de profesión. Durante la conversación, el director del manicomio expone diversas teorías con las que trata de explicar por qué se volvieron locos tres pacientes.
Male Customer (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Cinco historias terroríficas: 1) Un hombre busca a su hermana para asesinarla, pues ella es la beneficiaria de la herencia de su padre. Despues del crimen, el asesino entra en un macabro restaurante para celebrarlo. 2) Unos recién casados se instalan en una nueva casa, pero, muy pronto, el marido empieza a enfadarse porque su esposa Cambia todas las cosas de lugar. 3) Un mago está interesado en comprar una soga encantada de la India, pero la dueña, se niega a venderla. El mago asesina a la mujer y consigue la soga, pero este será el principio de una amarga venganza. 4) Un hombre simula su propia muerte con el objeto de estafar a una compañía de seguros, pero dos estudiantes, que buscan cuerpos para aprobar Anatomía, se encuentran con ese 'cadáver' que no huele a muerto. 5) Un artista trata de vengarse de sus representantes. Para ello se sirve de magia negra y vudú, de manera que pinta cuadros de personas que, al destruírlos, matan también a las personas.
Tramp (uncredited)
Un grupo de personas llegan, en una guía turística, a un extraño museo con una cripta. Allí, el Guardián les contará una serie de atroces historias de las cuales ellos son protagonistas...
Mr. Bean (uncredited)
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited)
Musical basado en una obra del mismo título que retrata a la famlia Smith durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Blake
Extraterrestres del espacio exterior aterrizan en nuestro planeta en búsqueda de algunos esclavos dóciles que puedan reparar su nave. Para ello dominan la voluntad de la gente, de todos menos del Dr. Temple, que posee un trozo de plata en su cabeza. El doctor comprenderá el misterio de cómo los extraterrestres se adueñan de la voluntad de las personas y elaborará un plan interesante.
Uncle
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.
Doctor
Una cantante, cansada mentalmente de rodar videoclips y realizar conciertos, se toma unos dias de vacaciones y va a descansar a una alejada isla llamada "La Isla de la Gaviota". Allí vive un amigo suyo dedicado a la apicultura. Al principio, la cantante se toma lo de las abejas como algo curioso e interesante, pero detecta algo extraño en su amigo. Un dia empiezan a encontrar víctimas debido a picaduras de abejas, quizá el apicultor esté detras de las muertes, quizá las abejas sean más peligrosas de lo que parecen...
Desk Sergeant
The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.
Tucker
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
Judge
El profesor Christopher Maitland, un coleccionista de antigüedades con tendencias ocultistas, compra una calavera a Marco, un hombre extraño con el que tiene misteriosos tratos. Según Marco, la calavera fue robada de la tumba del Marqués de Sade. Sir Matthew Philips, amigo de Christopher, le advierte del peligro de tocarla, asegurándole que una vez fue suya, pero que se la robaron. Christopher se obsesiona con la calavera, que acaba apoderándose de él y obligándole a cometer una sucesión de horribles asesinatos.
Toastmaster (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
Cinco hombres se sientan en el compartimento de un tren hacia un destino desconocido. Poco después, llega un hombre misterioso, de aspecto siniestro, que se presenta como el Doctor Schreck. Saca un juego de tarot y asegura a los viajantes que les puede predecir el futuro. Los cinco hombres no acaban de creérselo, pero Schreck consigue convencerles uno tras uno. Sus destinos se verán desvelados a través de historias distintas, que tienen todas como vínculo el enigmático Doctor Schreck.
Bank Cashier
Atraco imperfecto está protagonizada por Sydney James, Dick Emery y Lance Percival como un trío de ladrones de banco no muy brillantes. Tras salir de prisión después de 15 años, los tres muchachos acuden al árbol bajo el que habían escondido el dinero robado. Pero al lado del árbol, existe ahora una comisaría de policía... ¿Cómo conseguirán estos sinvergüenzas recuperar su botín?.
Chief Yeoman Warden
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Prof. Stark
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
Policeman
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
Dorothy's Father
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
Prof. Gerald Abrahams
'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?
Barman
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Johnson
Cuando un empleado intenta dejar de pagar el billete del autobús desata toda una serie de complicaciones.
Anaesthetist
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Police Sergeant
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
Dr. Roberts
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Jack Storey
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Inspector Gale
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Inspector Grayle
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!