Philip Leacock

Nacimiento : 1917-10-08,

Muerte : 1990-07-14

Películas

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Director
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Director
It's quiet in Chastity Gulch, a small town in the Wild West. The men of the village are all in the army and fight their battles far away. The women are getting very bored! At once a bunch of robbers drops into the saloon. They love the beer but are also looking for beautiful women. Will the town whores keep these delightful men for themselves or will the doctor's wife and the mayor's wife also get a part of the fun?
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Director
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the police to turn one more trick in order to trap the person laundering syndicate money.
Angel City
Director
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Director
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
Wild and Wooly
Director
A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a daring escape, and find themselves in a race against time to prevent the assassination of Teddy Roosevelt.
Killer on Board
Director
The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
Key West
Director
A former CIA agent and his friend, operating a charter boat service in Florida, find themselves the target of an eccentric millionaire with a score to settle.
Pájaros humanos
Director
Harry Cook es un militar americano que durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial entra en la Alemania nazi para rescatar a un científico noruego que trabaja con la bomba atómica. Sin embargo, los dos son capturados y enviados a una cárcel en un alto castillo alpino del que intentarán escapar construyendo un avión de vuelo sin motor.
Dying Room Only
Director
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Summer Holiday
Director
El amuleto del diablo
Producer
Un corredor de automóviles ha tenido visiones extrasensoriales. Una investigadora se interesa por el caso y, tras estudiarlo, llega a la conclusión de que el hombre puede predecir los desastres antes que se cumplan.
El amuleto del diablo
Director
Un corredor de automóviles ha tenido visiones extrasensoriales. Una investigadora se interesa por el caso y, tras estudiarlo, llega a la conclusión de que el hombre puede predecir los desastres antes que se cumplan.
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Director
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
The Great Man's Whiskers
Director
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
When Michael Calls
Director
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
Adam's Woman
Director
Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.
Los malvados de Firecreek
Producer
Al pueblo de Firecreek llegan unos pistoleros que provocan toda clase de disturbios y tienen atemorizada a la población. El sheriff honorario , que es un granjero cuya mujer está a punto de dar a luz, adopta una actitud pasiva ante los desmanes de la banda.
Tamahine
Director
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
El amante de la muerte
Director
McQueen y Wagner son dos pilotos británicos que durante la II Guerra Mundial se disputan el amor de Anne Field, al tiempo que arriesgan sus vidas en peligrosas misiones con sus bombarderos.
Reach for Glory
Director
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.
13 calle oeste
Director
Film precursor de "El justiciero de la ciudad" (1974). Al regresar una noche a su casa, un pacífico ingeniero de Beverly Hills (Alan Ladd) es asaltado por una pandilla de jóvenes delincuentes. Obsesionado con la idea de vengarse de ellos, se dejará arrastrar cada vez más por la violencia.
Hand in Hand
Director
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Que nadie escriba mi epitafio
Director
Retrato con fondo social de la atormentada vida de un chico y su madre, cuyo padre y marido fue ejecutado en la silla eléctrica. Secuela de "Knock on Any Door" (1949).
Take a Giant Step
Director
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.
The Rabbit Trap
Director
A man must choose between work or his family after he is called back to work during a family vacation. He and his son have set a harmless rabbit trap in the woods near the cabin they are vacationing in. When the family returns home they realize that they forget to retrieve the trap and the son fears that a rabbit will be captured and die a slow death from starvation. The man is in line for a promotion, yet feels that he is under appreciated by his boss. He must choose whether or not to follow his instincts and do the right thing or possibly lose the promotion he has worked long and hard for.
Innocent Sinners
Director
A neglected girl (June Archer) in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
High Tide at Noon
Director
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
El jardinero español
Director
Nicholas es un solitario muchacho inglés que vive en España con su severo y frío padre, un hombre rico y poderoso que prácticamente no se ocupa de él. El jardinero de la finca donde viven, al darse cuenta de la situación, empieza a interesarse por el chico. Sus atenciones y la amistad que le profesa hacen a Nicolás muy feliz, pero entonces su padre empieza a sentirse celoso de la influencia que el jardinero ejerce sobre su hijo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Escapade
Director
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
The Kidnappers
Director
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
Appointment in London
Director
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
The Brave Don't Cry
Director
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
Life in Her Hands
Director
A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.
Out of True
Director
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt. It was made as an educational film.
Riders of the New Forest
Director
Two children attempt to tame a wild New forest pony in this jolly kids' adventure. When they befriend local farm hand, Davy, the children begin to suspect he may be a horse thief.
Island People
Director
This one-reel film was produced during the middle of the Second World War. It purports to offer a portrait of the British people, in broad and in fine. It shows them as hard-working, serious people five and a half days a week; on Saturday afternoons and Sundays, they pursue their private interests, whether they be following a football team, spending time with the family or chatting amiably at the pub while the pretty barmaid draws a fresh beer.
Behind the Spanish Lines
Associate Editor
Documentary short directed by Sidney Cole and Thorold Dickinson.