Owl (voice)
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Dr. Selby
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Mr. Finlay / grocer owner
A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend. She eventually finds out and gets her revenge on them.
Squire Middleton
Siglo XVII. Unos niños juegan en los campos que rodean su pueblo y se encuentran con unos extraños restos que se asemejan a una garra. El juez local se hace cargo de investigar su procedencia. Al poco de iniciar la investigación la garra desaparece y una extraña locura se adueña de los habitantes del pueblo. Los niños, bajo las órdenes de la siniestra Angel Blake, empiezan a participar en rituales donde los más jóvenes y puros son mutilados y sacrificados. Sólo el juez podrá exorcizar las fuerzas demoníacas que están destrozando su comunidad.
Inspector Herman
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
Bailiff
Victor Frankenstein, descendiente del Baron Von Frankenstein, un infame científico, trabaja en los experimentos de su antepasado. Después de conseguir resucitar a una tortuga, emprende proyectos más ambiciosos, que incluyen la creación de un hombre.
Butler to Berg
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
Porter
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Mr. Jessop
En el siglo XIX, Oliver Twist (Mark Lester), un pobre niño inglés, escapa de un orfanato y llega a Londres en busca de fortuna. Allí es reclutado por un granuja llamado Fagin (Ron Moody), jefe de una banda de jóvenes ladronzuelos que roban a los transeúntes. Adaptación en formato musical de la famosa obra de Dickens.
Friar Tuck
En la Inglaterra del siglo XII, Robin de Courtenay huye al bosque de Sherwood acusado de la muerte de su primo Henry. Con la ayuda del fraile Tuck, Robin planea su venganza contra el asesino real, el despiadado y malvado Roger, que es además el hermano de la víctima. Robin lidera a una pandilla de rebeldes contra su corrupto primo, Roger. Su lucha por la justicia está repleta de peligros pero su encanto con la hermosa Lady Marian promete el romance en compensación.
Harry Hawkins
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Sheik in Arab Council (uncredited)
Biografía de T.E. Lawrence. El Cairo, 1917. Un conflictivo y enigmático oficial británico es enviado al desierto árabe durante la Gran Guerra en la campaña de ayuda a Arabia contra Turquía. En el desierto, se hace amigo de Sherif Ali Ben El Kharish y pone todo su empeño en la ayuda a los árabes. Éstos creen que Lawrence es otro amante del desierto que ayuda porque cree que Arabia es débil, mientras que sus superiores británicos creen que se ha vuelto loco. Cuando los planes de Lawrence consiguen llevarse a cabo con éxito, comienza a ganarse enemigos.
Daniels
Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
Pipe Smoker
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Mr Memory
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Earnshaw
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Sgt. Adams
El Servicio de Inteligencia Británico intenta hacer creer a los alemanes que el desembarco aliado se producirá en el Norte de África, cuando, en realidad, el ataque tendrá lugar en el Canal de la Mancha. Así las cosas, el Mayor Harvey asiste a una representación teatral y descubre a Clifton James, un actor que imita al general Montgomery. Pocos días despues, lo reclutan para actuar como doble de Monty en el Mediterráneo y hacer creer a los alemanes que el ataque se producirá desde allí. Adaptación del libro homónimo escrito por el propio Clifton James, que se interpreta a sí mismo en la película.
Mr Frith
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
Mason
Gideon, inspector de Scotland Yard, tiene un día de lo más apurado. Debe hacer frente a los recados de su señora esposa, amén de llegar pronto al concierto de su hija. Y en medio, antes y después de ello, debe hacer frente hasta a cuatro casos distintos, algunos de ellos verdaderamente peligrosos.
Robert Mason
Gideon, inspector de Scotland Yard, tiene un día de lo más apurado. Debe hacer frente a los recados de su señora esposa, amén de llegar pronto al concierto de su hija. Y en medio, antes y después de ello, debe hacer frente hasta a cuatro casos distintos, algunos de ellos verdaderamente peligrosos.
Monty
Intriga policial centrada en los bajos fondos del puerto de Barcelona.
Grandfather Willard
This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.
Silvestre
«Mañana ...» es la salida que buscan para engañarse a sí mismos quienes sienten la impotencia, la cobardía de afrontar cara a cara su circunstancia en la vida. También dijo «Mañana lo haré...» don Felipito, el hombrecillo que llevaba sobre sus espaldas un fracaso que él mismo se había atribuido. Porque jamás tuvo la decisión de medir sus fuerzas de autor frente a los editores y se impuso la vida de digno menesteroso a quien nadie hacía caso. Porque no supo convertir en industria de pedigüeño su necesidad. Como también perdió su ocasión el pacífico Silvestre, vigilante de una fábrica de galletas, quien sintiendo la vocación de la música, jamás quiso romper el cerco de la obligación cotidiana. Estos y otros personajes se enfrentan en la película a ese vacío existencial, a esa falta de consecuencia vital que los ha dejado postrados.
'Cookie' Morrow
Cuando un crucero de lujo (el Crescent Star) se hunde al chocar contra una mina flotante, en un bote salvavidas de capacidad para nueve personas se refugian 26 supervivientes. Pronto se acaba el repelente de tiburones, se acerca un huracán, hay pocos alimentos y poca agua y, en estas circunstancias, no queda más remedio que decidir sobre quién se queda y quién debe abandonar el bote.
Bert Fielding
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
Nino
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Después de ser herido y dado de baja, un piloto norteamericano regresa a su casa. Nada más llegar, se entera de la muerte de su esposa. Según la policía se trata de un suicidio, pero al marido no le satisface esta explicación y decide investigar el asunto por su cuenta.
Mr. Bouncenboy
A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.
Kimball
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Mikka
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
Mortimer
Durante el XIX, en Inglaterra el elegante "dandy" Beau Brummell se convierte en el hombre de confianza del Príncipe de Gales. Cuando se descubre una conspiración contra Jorge III, tendrá que abandonar su placentera vida y actuar en consecuencia.
The Chief
"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
The Plumber
En Londres, un joven graduado y su novia deciden casarse. Los dos tratan de llevar lo mejor posible los problemas de la convivencia durante su primer año de casados. Pero, a causa de las facturas, las incomodidades del pequeño apartamento en el que viven, las familias y los vecinos, la relación no resulta nada sencilla.
Fred Collins
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Dr. Smith
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Dutton
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Dr. Harvey
Un científico diseña una máquina que es capaz de duplicar a las personas, de manera que él y su amigo puedan amar sin ninguna complicación a la misma mujer.
Joe Lawson
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
Samuel Pickwick
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Prof. Prudence
Siglo XVIII. Todo un clásico del cine de piratas que narra las correrías de Burt Lancaster y su acrobático e inseparable compañero Cravat, unos temibles corsarios que aterrorizan a las tripulaciones de los barcos que navegan por el Mediterráneo.
Horatio Flowerdew
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?
Friar Tuck
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.
Bill
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Old Thomas
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
Sir Douglas Manley
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Albert Foreman (segment "The Verger")
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Ship's Captain
Un marinero deja a su familia abandonada en las calles de Liverpool. Su hija crece y se convierte en una mujer, pero vive con la esperanza de que su padre regrese.
Figler (uncredited)
Harry Fabian trabaja a comisión como gancho de un club, pero es ambicioso y sueña con hacerse independiente. Para conseguirlo no dudará en embaucar al campeón del mundo de lucha greco-romana para que se enfrente a su hijo Kristo, que controla la lucha en Londres.
Prouty
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.
Basada en una obra teatral de Kenneth Woollard. Después de sufrir un accidente, la tripulación de un submarino lucha por sobrevivir. Cuando acabó el rodaje, un submarino de nombre profético, el HMS Truculent, se hundía en el Támesis causando 64 víctimas. El film de Roy Ward Baker estuvo a punto de ser "archivado" para siempre, pero, finalmente, se estrenó incluyendo un mensaje en recuerdo de las víctimas y de todos los integrantes de la Marina Británica.
Mayor
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Commissionaire
Narra cómo el descubrimiento de un tratado provoca que la "Sección Pimlico", una pequeña comunidad en medio de Londres, se proclame independiente e intente actuar como tal.
Carrell Quire
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Man with Summons
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Councillor Baines
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
John Craigie 'Jocko' Glenn
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Dr Murdock
Dos niños sobreviven a una catástrofe naval y deben sobrevivir en una isla desierta. Adaptación de la famosa novela de Henry De Vere Stacpoole "El lago azul".
Pa Fox
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Pringle
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
Inn Landlord
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Councilor Trouncer
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Foreman of the Jury
"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.
Kingsburgh
The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.
Mr. Burrell
Ligera comedia amorosa en la que un playboy que vive en una zona vacacional presume de que no hay mujer que se le pueda resistir. Sin embargo, su ego cae por los suelos cuando conoce a una actriz que está por la zona de incógnito, y que no parece hacerle demasiado caso. Ante tamaña afrenta, el hombre decide seducirla a cualquier precio... incluido el matrimonio.
Perry
El matrimonio Baines es personal de servicio de una embajada. La pareja cuida de Felipe, que es el hijo del embajador. El señor Baines (Ralph Richardson) y el pequeño son dos compañeros inseparables pero la señora Baines (Sonia Dresdel) trata de una manera dura y autoritaria al pequeño. Baines se enamora de una secretaria de la embajada. Felipe intenta ocultar el secreto. Pero la mujer se entera de lo ocurrido por la indiscreción del pequeño. Poco después, el señor Baines es acusado de matar a su esposa, que cae por las escaleras. Estrenada el 31 de Agosto 1948 en el Festival de Venecia.
Nicholas Klausmann
Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
Tom Morse
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.
Bandmaster
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.
Garage Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Music Hall Comic (uncredited)
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Dr. White
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one.
Ned and Charles Cheeryble
Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.
Warrant Officer
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Ostler
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Hans
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
(uncredited)
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Barker
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Nick Green
La policía investiga por asesinato a un gangster estadounidense, propietario de un club nocturno en Soho.
Chuck
Joe, a Marseilles docker, is hired by a wealthy English couple to find their missing son. When Joe finds him, he learns he escaped of his own will and takes him to stay with a local singer. They offer him a refuge from his repressed white parents.
Minor Role
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
Jock
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
