Robert Morley

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

A New York Times correspondent based in Sweden travels to Istanbul with his daughter on a secret mission.

Um conto extravagante da Inglaterra sobre um gatuno aristrocrático que se apaixona pela mulher que jurou defender. Uma adaptação do romance da autora Barbara Cartland.

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.

George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.

Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.

In the beginning the Devil made a bet with God. The Devil backed Eve, God backed Adam. What would have happened to love and sex if Adam hadn't taken the bite?

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.

Nessa história, Caco e Fozzie são irmãos gêmeos (apesar de um ser um sapo e o outro um urso) que trabalham como jornalistas e Gonzo os acompanha como fotógrafo. Os três são mandados para a Inglaterra para investigar um roubo de um colar de diamantes e acabam se metendo em muitas encrencas. Todos os outros personagens do Muppet Show fazem aparições no filme, assim como Oscar, da Vila Sésamo.

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

Chevy Chase, que interpreta Browning, um atrapalhado investigador particular é assassinado enquanto investigava a morte de uma mulher. Browining, recebe então uma última chance de voltar para a Terra, na forma de um cachorro, para descobrir a identidade do criminoso e poder entrar no Paraíso.

An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Duas crianças camponesas, Mytyl e seu irmão Tyltyl, embarcam na busca pelo pássaro azul da felicidade da fada Berylune. Em sua jornada, eles têm a companhia da presença humanizada de um Cachorro, um Gato, Luz e Fogo e outras entidades.

The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he brings twelve hippos into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the hippos are no longer a novelty and the people no longer feed them, they begin to starve. After the hungry hippos rampage through the city looking for food, Aban-Khan, the king's adviser, slaughters all the hippos except one, a little hippo named Hugo.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Um ator fracassado planeja sua vingança contra os críticos de arte responsáveis por severas críticas sobre sua interpretação. Horror, comédia e trama Shakespeariana se misturam para compor uma história eletrizante e intensa. As espetaculares mortes foram inspiradas nas cenas de morte das peças de Shakespeare.

In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

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.

O filme narra os feitos de Oliver Cromwell que liderou as forças do Parlamento de Inglaterra durante a Guerra Civil Inglesa e, mais tarde com o título de Lord Protetor, dirigiu a Grã Bretanha e Irlanda em meados do século XVII. Um elenco cheio estrelas cinematográficas, com Richard Harris como Cromwell e Alec Guinness como o Rei Carlos I da Inglaterra.

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.

Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is handicapped by the fact that his childhood playmate Annie is equally determined to track him down and save his soul...

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.

A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.

An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.

Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer.

Cliff Richard and the Shadows arrive in a small Spanish town for a concert when a U.S. plane accidentally drops a mini-bomb on it. The Shadows look for the bomb to return it.

Os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética possuem bases próprias na Lua. Os soviéticos enviaram um casal, enquanto que os americanos enviaram dois homens solteiros. A NASA precisa sempre substituir a equipe, já que os astronautas enlouquecem caso permaneçam por muito tempo na base - o que não ocorre com os vizinhos soviéticos. Para resolver a questão, a NASA decide substituir sua equipe e procura um casal de cientistas para a função. Os escolhidos são Pete Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) e Eileen Forbes (Connie Stevens). Só que, em nome da moralidade, o governo americano exige que eles se casem antes de serem enviados ao espaço.

Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.

A cartoon detailing the unrequited love that the line has for the dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for the lively squiggle.

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

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

Uma corrida aérea internacional é sinônimo de aventura nas alturas e fantástica diversão! Esta versão extraordinariamente hilária da histórica corrida aérea Londres-Paris de 1910 apresenta os maiores aviadores de todo o mundo. Eles se reúnem quando um editor jornalístico pedante, mas muito rico, decide patrocinar uma corrida aérea através do Canal da Mancha, oferecendo o prêmio de 10 mil libras ao vencedor. As proezas das equipes americana, britânica, francesa, alemã, italiana e japonesa dão origem às mais ousadas e hilárias acrobacias aéreas já registradas em filme.

A história do épico líder mongol Genghis Khan, considerado o "Príncipe dos Conquistadores", desde sua infância até se rebelar em sua juventude. Ameaças de um rival fará Genghis Khan lutar contra as perseguições e formar um grande exército que conquista todo o Oriente.

Jovem estudante de medicina com ambições artísticas se apaixona por uma garçonete, que o abandona e acaba casando com outro homem. Quando ela retorna grávida, ele a aceita de volta.

Um vigarista se junta com um grupo de ladrões que planejam entrar num museu de Istambul para roubar uma adaga adornada com pedras preciosas. Um vigarista de pequeno porte com problemas de passaporte se junta com uma gangue de ladrões de jóias de classe mundial que planejam roubar o museu de Topkapi, em Istambul. A inteligência turca, suspeitando de contrabando de armas, se envolve e, sob pressão, o vigarista vai até onde nunca sonhara.

Short film starring and featuring the music of The Shadows

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

When Frank Michaelson, well-respected president of the board of education, is falsely accused of horseplay, he blames his 19-year-old daughter, who has grown into a desirable young woman.

The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.

An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

Miss Marple e Stringer são testemunhas da morte por ataque cardíaco de idosos, ricos, Enderby. No entanto, eles têm dúvidas sobre o que aconteceu. A polícia não acredita neles, levando Miss Marple a investigar novamente por si mesma.

José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.

A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.

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.

When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.

Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.

A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

Angela Barrows é uma mulher de negócios comedora de homens, enviada por seu empregador americano para investigar suas oportunidades de exportação em Edimburgo. No caminho, ela conhece Robert MacPherson, um empresário que pede sua ajuda para trazer sua empresa para o século XX. A equipe, liderada por Martin, tem outras ideias - e uma batalha entre os antigos e os novos métodos de negócios logo começa. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.

Budapeste, novembro de 1956. Uma revolta força a União Soviética a uma intervenção militar. Diana Ashmore (Deborah Kerr), uma inglesa divorciada, tenta tirar do país Paul Kedes (Jason Robards), um húngaro com quem está envolvido. Ele está com um passaporte in

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

Jonathan Tibbs decide vender as armas fabricadas por sua família. Para conseguir vende-las ele vai ao oeste, onde se apaixona por uma loira dona de um saloon. Uma série de equívocos o fazem ser confundido com um perito atirador, e ele acaba sendo nomeado xerife da cidade caótica de Queixo Quebrado. Inexperiente ele só pode contar com a ajuda de sua loira para saber como agir.

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.

Em 1872, o nobre inglês Phileas Fogg (David Niven) aposta vinte mil libras com seus colegas do Clube Reformatório de Londres de que ele consegue dar a volta no planeta em exatamente oitenta dias. Ao lado do engenhoso Valet Passepartout (Mario Moreno), ele busca cumprir o seu objetivo com aventuras em todos os continentes, acaba conhecendo e se encantando pela bela viúva Aouda (Shirley MacLaine), ao mesmo tempo que, em uma conspiração, é acusado de ter roubado o dinheiro que investiu na aposta.

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...

No século XV, Quentin Durward (Robert Taylor), um pobre e bonito cavaleiro escocês, é enviado por seu tio para conhecer a bela condessa de Macroy, Isabelle (Kay Kendall). Ele deverá apresentar os cumprimentos do velho homem, que pretende se casar com a jovem condessa prometida a ele por razões políticas, pelo duque da Borgonha (Alec Clunes). No entanto, ela rejeita as reivindicações e foge para a França com a intenção de ir para a cidade de Tours, buscando a proteção do grande rival de Charles, Louis XI (Robert Morley), rei da França. Quando Durward segue seu encalço, acaba salvando a condessa de grandes perigos, e a convivência faz com que eles se apaixonem. Mas as intrigas da corte mostrarão perigos muito mais mortais do que os campos de batalha da idade média.

Lavishly told story of George Bryan Brummel, a commoner born in the era of Napoleon who uses wit, brilliance and sartorial flair to align himself with the future King George IV. Lush settings in authentic locations and Taylor in Regency …

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

A caminho da África estão um grupo de patifes, que esperam ficar ricos lá, e um aparentemente inocente casal britânico. Eles se encontram e as coisas acontecem .... Um quarteto de bandidos internacionais - Peterson, O'Hara, Ross e Ravello - está encalhado na Itália enquanto seu navio está sendo reparado. Com eles também estão os Dannreuthers. Os seis estão indo para a África, presumivelmente para vender aspiradores de pó, mas na verdade vão para comprar terra supostamente rica com urânio. Eles são acompanhados por outros que aparentemente têm objetivos semelhantes.

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hopes to marry.

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

O African Queen é o pequeno, mas estimado, barco de Charlie (Humphrey Bogart). Durante a Primeira Guerra, na selvagem África, ele assume a responsabilidade de levar a irmã do recém-falecido reverendo Samuel, Rose (Katharine Hepburn), para a civilização, através do rio, utilizando o barco. Mas existem dois problemas: Rose e Charlie não combinam em nada e as margens do rio estão cheias de alemães.

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

De Volta ao Pequeno Apartamento detalha as angústias de um pesquisador e especialista em desarme de bombas militares Sammy Rice. Ele vive um relacionamento complexo com a secretária Susan e é contratado pelo governo para orientar sobre uma nova e perigosa arma alemã.

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.

Maria Antonieta (Norma Shearer) é uma linda princesa austríaca com casamento marcado com o herdeiro do trono francês Luís Augusto (Robert Morley), casamento este arranjado por motivos políticos. Já no palácio francês, Maria encontra-se caída entre as intrigas da família real, principalmente entre o Rei Luís XV e seu maléfico primo, o Conde de Orleans (Joseph Schidkraut). Para alívio de Maria, Luís só poderia casar-se com ela caso ele se tornasse Rei. Certo dia, em um cassino, Maria conhece o Conde Axel de Fersen (Tyrone Power), e ambos se sentem atraídos imediatamente um pelo outro. Sentindo-se realizada com seu amante, Maria recebe uma notícia que não esperava tão logo, o Rei Luís XV havia morrido. Sabendo então que o Conde poderia manter um caso com a noiva do príncipe, mas não com a Rainha da França, Maria teria então que decidir entre seu coração e a realeza.

This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current MGM productions.