John Chandos
Nascimento : 1917-07-27, Glasgow, Scotland
Morte : 1987-09-21
Lord Brantley
The story of Ted and Jackie, two London kids who decide to run away to Liverpool and, from there, stow away on a ship bound for Jamaica - the home of Jackie's estranged father.
Drumont
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
O'Malley
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
1st Journalist
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
McKechnie
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Dr. Langmann, German Minister, Montevideo
Nos primeiros anos da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Marinha Real Britânica está lutando uma batalha desesperada para manter as rotas dos comboios do Atlântico abertas para abastecer as Ilhas Britânicas, enfrentando o grande perigo representado pelos muitos navios de guerra alemães, como o Almirante Graf Spee, que estão vasculhando o oceano em busca de navios de carga para afundarem.
Danvers
A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped by an ever more complex web of lies and intrigue. A lifetime of personal honour is at stake and we wonder if redemption is possible.
Raines
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Settler
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Gulliver Kee
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Orville Hart
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
Boyd
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
Tim O'Reilly
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
Stub Ear
Burt Lancaster interpreta um pirata com gosto pela intriga e acrobacias que se envolve nos acontecimentos de uma revolução no Caribe no final dos anos 1700. Uma aventura de coração leve envolvendo fugas de prisão, um cientista estranho, veleiros, batalhas navais e toneladas de espadas. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Man on Train (uncredited)
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
John
Em 1930, Maria Brentano (Valentina Cortese) e sua irmã mais nova, Nora (Audrey Hepburn), fogem para Londres após seu pai ser assassinado por um ditador europeu. Sete anos depois, durante uma viagem a Paris, Maria encontra por acaso Louis (Serge Reggiani), e descobre que ele está planejando um atentado contra o ditador. Maria e Nora se envolvem no plano, querendo vingar a morte do pai, mas uma tragédia acontece quando a bomba-relógio que eles plantaram no local explode e mata um inocente. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Krantz
No final dos anos 20, o designer da aeronaves R.J. Mitchell sente que alcançou tudo o que quer com seus revolucionários aviões monoplanos. Ganhou troféu depois de troféu. Mas um feriado na Alemanha logo após Hitler assumir o poder o convence de que é vital projetar um tipo completamente novo de avião de combate e que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, a própria sobrevivência da Grã-Bretanha pode depender do que ele vem a chamar de Spitfire.
No 16
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.
Lohrmann
Uma tripulação de U-boat da Segunda Guerra Mundial está encalhada no norte do Canadá. Para evitar o aprisionamento, eles devem ir até a fronteira e entrar nos EUA que ainda estão neutros.