Donald Houston

After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.

Deuses do Olimpo, terríveis monstros mitológicos e heróis mortais fazem deste espetáculo de imaginação uma aventura imperdível. Harry Hamlin é Perseu, o filho mortal de Zeus (Laurence Olivier), que luta para salvar a vida da princesa Andrômeda (Judi Bowker) do monstro marinho Kraken. Para tal, ele precisa de uma arma tão letal quanto difícil de conseguir: A cabeça de Medusa! Acompanhado de um grupo de corajosos guerreiros e montado no fabuloso Pegasus, o cavalo alado, Perseu parte em uma aventura sem precedentes pelas terras fantásticas da mitologia grega.

Uma verdadeira história da WW2. Os britânicos precisam atacar um navio alemão, mas ele está na segurança da neutra Goa. Então eles enviam civis, ex-soldados de cerca de 60 anos de idade.

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Neste filme de horror dividido em episódios, o Dr. Tremayne é um enigmático psiquiatra que dirige um manicômio e narra a um especialista o caso de quatro pacientes. O primeiro é um garotinho cujo amigo imaginário é um tigre; o segundo declarou ter sido possuído pelo espírito de um antepassado ao adquirir velhos bens que pertenciam ao falecido; o terceiro nutre uma bizarra obsessão por uma árvore cujo tronco lembra as formas de uma mulher, e o quarto caso é o de uma mulher envolvida acidentalmente com um cerimonial pagão e canibalismo. No final, a verdade sobre os quatro casos vem à tona.

Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney

A woman deals with an unhappy marriage, the death of her lover, and her son's involvement in a crime.

The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um general dos Estados Unidos é capturado e feito prisioneiro no quartel-general da SS, nos Alpes da Baviera. Um grupo de soldados aliados tem a difícil missão de resgatá-lo. A operação torna-se ainda mais complicada quando descobrem que há um traidor entre eles.

Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.

Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness of space are enough to drive the strongest personality insane. Better to block all memories of human contact and to program the 12-strong crew to accept only the reality they can see and touch within their spacecraft. But a child born on "the Station" becomes insistent on learning the truth about 'Outside'.

Sherlock Holmes e Dr. Watson se unem à caça de um assassino notório, Jack O Estripador.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um esquadrão aéreo da Real Força Aérea Inglesa é destacado para uma missão suicida de destruir uma fábrica de combustíveis alemã situada no meio de um fiorde norueguês.

Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.

"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

Jeff Farrell está de férias no sul da França quando se apaixona por Eve e ao mesmo tempo cultiva uma atração pela filha da mulher, Annette. O marido de Eve está preso há quatro anos por ter violentado Annette, mas ela planeja ajudá-lo a fugir. Jeff, achando que garantiria o amor de Eve, colabora com o plano sem saber que a mulher tem idéias completamente diferentes.

O maior ataque que o mundo já viu, acontecido no dia 6 de junho, ficou conhecido como o Dia D e desbancou o domínio nazista na Europa. A ofensiva, que envolveu mais de 3 milhões de homens, foi uma das mais ousadas e sangrentas estratégias militares da era moderna e marcou o início do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vencedor dos Oscar de Fotografia em Preto e Branco e Efeitos Especiais, foi indicado ainda à outras três categorias: Filme, Montagem e Direção de Arte em Preto e Branco.

Xerxes, o rei persa, colocou seu enorme império de escravos para esmagar um pequeno grupo de estados independentes gregos. O rei contava com a desunião da Grécia para vencer a guerra, mas o famoso guerreiro Leonidas, o rei de Esparta, e o grande orador Themistocles de Atenas viram que a união era a única força capaz de derrotar o exército persa.

Na Londres de 1537, dois garotos idênticos se encontram acidentalmente e trocam "papéis" por um curto período. Depois de muitas aventuras, o príncipe recupera sua identidade legítima e graciosamente torna seu "gêmeo" protegido pela corte.

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.

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Final dos anos 1940, Yorkshire, Inglaterra. O jovem ambicioso Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), que acaba de se mudar da sombria fábrica da cidade de Dufton, chega a Warnley para assumir um cargo seguro, mas mal remunerado, no Departamento do Tesoureiro do Borough. Determinado a ter sucesso, e ignorando as advertências de um colega, Soames (Donald Houston), ele é atraído por Susan Brown (Heather Sears), filha do magnata industrial local, Brown (Donald Wolfit). Ele lida com a ascensão social de Joe enviando Susan para o exterior; Joe procura consolo com Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), uma mulher mais velha e infeliz que se apaixona por ele. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.

Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.

During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.

A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans.

A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.

Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club, he discovers that Oldchester are desperate for promotion as they stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...

After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.

A aventura de um americano que se alistou no Regimento de Pára-quedas britânico em 1940, alegando ser canadense.

A fisherman cannot make a decent living from his trawler so he decides to turn his hand to smuggling.

A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.