Bill Travers

Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).

Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!

Во времена сухого закона катер береговой охраны расстрелял и затопил небольшое судно с грузом алкоголя. Чудом удалось спастись только одному человеку - Корнелиусу ван Зелинга. Заработав деньги разновидностью «русской рулетки» он возвращается к своему промыслу, назвав новое свое судно «Дама моего сердца» в честь увиденной им в кинотеатре кинодивы.

The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.

The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.

Кто сказал, что лучшим другом человека является собака? Для одинокого лондонского клерка Грэхема лучшим другом стала купленная в зоомагазине выдра, ради которой он даже бросил неплохую работу и уехал в холодную Шотландию.

Кто сказал, что лучшим другом человека является собака? Для одинокого лондонского клерка Грэхема лучшим другом стала купленная в зоомагазине выдра, ради которой он даже бросил неплохую работу и уехал в холодную Шотландию.

The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.

The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.

The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.

Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.

Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.

Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.

A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.

"Дуэль в Диабло" - "захватывающая, завораживающая драма" (The Hollywood Reporter), которая "всецело завладеет вашим вниманием" (The New York Times) и "будет держать вас в напряжении от начала и до конца" (The Film Daily)! В ролях Джеймс Гарнер, Сидни Пуатье, Билл Трэверс, Биби Андерссон и Деннис Уивер. Разведчик-проводник Джесс Ремсберг (Гарнер) отважно ведет обоз с переселенцами через вражескую территорию в Форт Кончо. Но под его доблестью скрыт тайный мотив: сведение счетов с человеком, который, как он считает, убил его жену. По прибытии в форт Джесс узнает не только шокирующую правду об убийце, но и то, что обоз подвергся нападению апачей, и он является единственной надеждой людей на спасение.

Фильм был снят в Африканской саванне по одноименному бестселлеру известной писательницы и натуралиста Джой Адамсон. Картина рассказывает о судьбе львицы Эльсы, еще детенышем попавшей к супругам Адамсон. Они не только спасают малышку от неминуемой гибели, но и, вырастив ее, возвращают назад в дикую природу потому, что она была рождена свободной. Авторам удалось превосходно запечатлеть и передать с помощью средств кино красоту природы и животного мира Кении.

This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun. See if this fearless foursome can stomp their Fascist foes and get back to their game of cricket! Spike Milligan, Gregoire Aslan, and Thorley Walters co-star.

After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.

После подводного землетрясения у британских берегов объявляется древний ящер, которого англичане ловят, называют Горго и отправляют в Лондон на всеобщее обозрение как диковинного зверя. Расстроенная мамаша Горго, по размерам значительно превосходящая своё дитё, решает освободить сына из людского плена.

Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.

A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

Сразу после второй мировой войны Великобритания была вынуждена освободить Индию от колониальной зависимости. Желая сделать это организованно, командование английских войск разработало план постепенного вывода своих вооруженных сил. Но борющиеся за власть всевозможные индийские партии и группировки пожелали ускорить этот процесс, провоцируя население на бунты и неповиновение европейцам. Началось это с мятежа в индийском флоте, после чего целый ряд восстаний прокатился по всей стране. Именно на борьбу с этими анархическими выступлениями и в качестве подкрепления для гражданских властей был командирован на узловую станцию Бховани английский полковник Сэвидж.

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

По новелле Дэвида Уолкера о том, как юный сын лесничего, скромный, застенчивый Джорди, отличавшийся высоким ростом и большой физической силой, стал чемпионом олимпийских игр и как из-за этой победы он чуть было не лишился любви Джейн, с которой вместе вырос.

На балу во дворце Капулетти зарождается любовь двух юных существ, судьбою обреченных на ненависть. Ромео Монтекки и Джульетта Капулетти полюбили друг друга на свою беду, ведь их семьи ведут смертельную вражду уже многие, многие годы… Но их любовь сильнее родовой вражды, сильнее предрассудков и непреодолимых препятствий. Великая сила этой любви побеждает все, даже смерть…

A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.

While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.