Sam Kydd

Sam Kydd

Рождение : 1917-02-15, Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]

Смерть : 1982-03-26

Профиль

Sam Kydd
Sam Kydd

Фильмы

Ушко иголки
Lock Keeper
Англия. Вторая мировая война. Люси — обычная неприметная домохозяйка. Она живет на маленьком безлюдном острове. Однажды, после сильного шторма она находит на берегу еле живого, но чертовски привлекательного мужчину…
The Shillingbury Blowers
A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the previous conductor is criticized for the false notes played by the brass band.
Danger on Dartmoor
Sam
The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, and other dangers.
Yesterday's Hero
Sam Turner
Successful soccer player Rod Turner spirals into drunken self-pity until he develops a friendship with an inspirational orphan and a beautiful singer. Learning from them what truly matters in life, Rod regroups and returns to form.
The Great Snail Race
Grumpy Gardener
A race is arranged after Magpie boasts about her pet snail. Paid to catch snails in the Colonel's cabbage patch, Fiddler later persuades Magpie's Mum to give her daughter's snail collection to a French restaurant.
Sporting Chance
Dwyer
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.
Большие надежды
Scarred Convict
Экранизация романа Чарльза Диккенса о мальчике Пипе, его грандиозных стремлениях и их крушении. Только благодаря своим душевным качествам, любви и дружбе главный герой обретет счастье в жизни…
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1st Removal Man
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
The Firefighters
Young auxiliary fire-fighters are suspected of arson.
Steptoe and Son Ride Again
Claude
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Carson Country
Tom Brannigan
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.
Ради любви
Taximan
После неудачного научного эксперимента учёный-физик Колин Трэффорд обнаруживает себя в параллельном мире. В мире, где не было Второй Мировой войны, где человек не летал в Космос, где Эверест был ещё не покорён... В этой альтернативной реальности Колин больше не учёный. Окружающие принимают его за известного писателя, автора многочисленных романов и пьес. Но это не единственное изменение... Колин с удивлением обнаруживает, что женат. Его жену зовут Оттили. Вскоре становится ясно, что "предыдущий" Колин не любил свою жену и их брак был на грани распада. Колину-физику стоит не малых усилий убедить Оттили, что он другой человек из другого мира... Но судьба распорядилась так, что Оттили тяжело больна и умирает, а Колин просыпается в "своём мире". Он знает, что в его мире она тоже есть и у неё может быть точно такое же заболевание... В надежде, что её можно спасти, Колин отправляется на поиски.
Dad's Army
Nazi Orderly
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
Риллингтон Плейс, дом 10
Furniture Dealer
Лондон, 1944 год. Ночью во время бомбежки женщина проникает в полуразвалившийся дом. Там она встречает Джона Кристи, пятидесятилетнего дружинника. Он хочет помочь женщине избавиться от кашля, надевая кислородную маску. Но та неожиданно начинает задыхаться. Тогда Кристи бросается на женщину, насилует и душит. После этого он зарывает труп у себя в саду, где уже находятся несколько других тел. В 1949 году Кристи возвращается к работе бухгалтера. Он сдает второй этаж своего дома молодой супружеской чете с ребенком — Тимоти и Берил Эванс.
Слишком поздно, герой
C/Sgt.
Вторая мировая война, 1942 год. Сообразительного солдата и американского лейтенанта, знающего японский язык, в составе боевого десанта посылают на тихоокеанский остров с заданием, сулящим верную смерть. Они должны уничтожить радиопередатчик в тылу врага. Это задание превращается в состязание умов между ними и японским офицером.
Moon Zero Two
Len the Barman
On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a 6000-ton sapphire asteroid, while also assisting a woman in finding her missing miner/prospector brother
Till Death Us Do Part
Fred
The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.
Убийство сестры Джордж
Актриса Джордж уже скоро может остаться без роли в мыльной опере. Влиятельный продюсер Мерси Крофт не остановится ни перед чем, стараясь заполучить подругу Джорд — Алису.
Gold Is Where You Find It
Pader Murphy
A millionaire returns to Ireland and loses his gold nuggets before disappearing and sparking a gold rush.
Smashing Time
Workman in Café
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Остров террора
Constable John Harris
На побережье небольшого ирландского островка находят тело фермера, полностью лишенное костей. Прибывшая на остров для расследования столь странного случая группа специалистов вскоре обнаруживает и другие такие же трупы и приходит к выводу, что инциденты могут быть связаны с деятельностью некоего доктора Филлипса, одержимого идеей изобрести средство от рака. А вскоре они встречают и самих виновников смертей - химерических монстров, высасывающих костную ткань из живых существ.
The Projected Man
Harry Slinger
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
Smokescreen
Hotel Waiter
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
The Iron Maiden
Fred Trotter
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Clue of the Silver Key
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Секрет Монте-Кристо
Albert
О приключениях капитана Адама Корбетта, который отправляется на поиски сокровищ легендарного графа Монте-Кристо.
Suspect
Slater
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
The House in Marsh Road
Morris Lumley
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
Жил-был мошенник
Foreman
В Англии неудалой мошенник, бывший подрывник, отбывающий за чужие и собственные грехи срок - досрочно освобожден, и попадает на производство, где понимает - здесь всё прогнило, особенно хозяева. Обещает - будет всё иначе...
Потопить «Бисмарк»
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
В 1941 году линкор «Бисмарк», гордость немецкого флота, был спущен на воду и отправился в свой первый боевой поход. Спустя несколько дней он настиг и уничтожил мощный английский крейсер «Худ» со всем его экипажем. Уинстон Черчилль отдал приказ командующему военно-морскими операциями капитану Джонатану Шепарду найти «Бисмарка» и потопить его любой ценой.
Вверх и вниз по лестнице
Driver (uncredited)
Молодая пара переезжает в новый дом и по совету отца невесты пытается найти помощницу по хозяйству. Однако супруги даже не подозревали, с какими сложностями им придется столкнуться в поисках домработницы. Распутницы, грабительницы банков, алкоголички... Кто только себя не попробовал на этом поприще!
Клевета
Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)
Ветеран Второй мировой войны, страдающий частичной потерей памяти, обвиняется своим бывшим сослуживцем в самозванстве...
Всё в порядке, Джэк
Shop Steward
По возвращению из армии, Стенли Виндраш видит себя в роли управляющего в промышленной отрасли. Но, к сожалению, ему не удается благополучно устроиться, и он просит помощи у своего дяди Бертрама, главы завода по изготовлению оружия, который планирует нелегальную, прибыльную сделку, которая в результате оказывается не только разрушительной для завода, но и просто забавной.
The Price of Silence
Slug
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
Собака Баскервилей
Perkins
Что-то зловещее затаилось среди покрытых туманом английских болот. Дьявольская собака нападает на владельцев Баскервилль-Холла. Но прежде чем это чудовище вонзит зубы в последнего владельца поместья, ему придется сразиться с самым сильным противником - несравненным Шерлоком Холмсом и его острым, как бритва, умом.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Signaller
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Make Mine a Million
Robber (uncredited)
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
Further Up the Creek
Bates
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
I Was Monty's Double
Go-Between
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Orders to Kill
Flight Sgt. Flint
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Law and Disorder
Shorty
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.
The Scamp
Shopkeeper
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
The Long Haul
Taxi Driver
An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.
Продолжай, адмирал.
Attendant
Двое друзей напиваются и решают сменить личность. Один - парламентский секретарь, а другой - капитан корабля. Недостаток знаний о море у первого вызывает несколько катастроф, в том числе торпедирование Первого лорда Адмиралтейства.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Able Seaman Walker
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.
The Hide-Out
Tim Bowers
An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
Tiger in the Smoke
Tom Gripper
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.
Друзья цирка
George
Группа цирковых детей и их друзей объединяются, чтобы спасти шоу от финансовой катастрофы.
Home and Away
Albert West
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
Reach for the Sky
Warrant Officer Blake
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
The Long Arm
Police Constable in Information Room
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Город, похожий на Элис
Australian Driver
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
Козлёнок за два гроша
(uncredited)
Мама маленького Джо работает в ателье господина Кандинского швеёй, и Джо иногда бывает у неё на работе. Они кое-как сводят концы с концами на мамину зарплату, но в их бедном квартале есть соседи, которые даже голодают. Джо не знает, как помочь всем этим людям и маме, но очень хочет этого. Кандинский однажды говорил ему, что любое желание человека может исполнить только единорог из сказки. Джо покупает на свои сбережения маленького козлёнка, у которого по-особенному растут рожки. Он решил вырастить собственного единорога…
You Can't Escape
Ted the Poacher
Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.
Storm Over the Nile
Joe (uncredited)
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
Убийцы леди
Second Cab Driver (uncredited)
Средь бела дня в дом пожилой леди, миссис Уилберфорс, постучал неизвестный джентльмен. Представившись профессором музыки, мистером Маркусом, он пожелал снять у неё комнату, заранее предупредив, что к нему для репетиций будут наведываться коллеги.. Кто же знал, что под видом почтенных граждан струнного квинтета скрываются грабители, обдумывающие очередной гоп-стоп. Дельце выгорает, и с украденным они являются в дом миссис Уилберфорс. По просьбе профессора старушка соглашается вывезти его «багаж» с вокзала, не подозревая, что он набит награбленной наличностью. Получив деньги и распрощавшись с милой старушкой, преступники покидают её дом. Однако при захлопывании двери случается несуразная мелочь — и старушка понимает, что её жилец ведёт нечестную игру. Посчитав старушку ненужным свидетелем, они решают её убить, но исполнить это не так-то просто...
Portrait of Alison
Bill, the Telephone Engineer
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
Josephine and Men
Desk Sergeant
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
A Prize of Gold
Milkman (uncredited)
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
One Way Out
Gang Member (uncredited)
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.
Эксперимент Куотермасса
Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
По возвращении из космоса ракета, запущенная группой учёных во главе с профессором Бернардом Куотермассом, падает в английской глубинке. Из трёх членов экипажа ракеты двое исчезают, а третий превращается в отвратительного мутанта, который начинает уничтожать людей и животных, подпитывая их плотью дальнейшие чудовищные трансформации своего организма. Куотермасс решает, что здесь не обошлось без происков враждебных инопланетных форм жизни.
The Constant Husband
Adelphi Barman
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
The Glass Cage
George
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Passage Home
Sheltia
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
Final Appointment
Alfred Vickery
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Radio Cab Murder
Spencer
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
The Young Lovers
Driver, Embassy car JAK711 (uncredited)
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
The Embezzler
Railway Inspector
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Отец Браун
Scotland Yard sergeant
История отца Брауна, в рабочее время священника, а на досуге - сыщика. Когда у отца Брауна при перевозке из Лондона в Рим крадут ценный религиозный артефакт, он задается целью не только вернуть похищенное, но и заставить покаяться крупного международного преступника Фламбо.
The Rainbow Jacket
Bruce
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Devil on Horseback
Darky
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
They Who Dare
Marine Boyd
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
The End of the Road
First Postal Clerk
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
Impulse
uncredited
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
The Saint's Return
Barkley
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
The Runaway Bus
Airport Security Officer
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
Malta Story
Army Airfield Soldier
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
Death Goes to School
Sergeant Harvey (Uncredited)
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
The Steel Key
Chauffeur
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
Жестокое море
Carslake
Это длинный и правдивый рассказ об океане и двух кораблях. Этот рассказ описывает долгое и яростное сражение. Здесь пойдет речь о двух кораблях потому, что один был потоплен и его пришлось заменить другим. Здесь пойдет речь о двухстах пятидесяти моряках. И наконец, самое главное - это правдивый рассказ. Место действия - океан, Северная Атлантика. Карта поведает вам, как он выглядит, но не откроет, что с ним могут сделать люди и что сам он может сделать с людьми... Сначала о корабле. Первом из двух. О том, который обречен. Это корвет. Новый тип конвойных кораблей. Опытный образец, созданный для того, чтобы хоть как-то встретить отчаянную ситуацию, возникшую на горизонте. Время действия - ноябрь 1939 года. Название корабля - Его Королевского Величества корвет «Компас Роуз». И, наконец, о людях. Некоторые, как и сам этот прекрасный корабль, обречены. Герои этого рассказа — мужчины и их корабли. И единственный злодей среди них — жестокое море.
Appointment in London
Ackroyd
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.
Time Bomb
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Love in Pawn
Uncredited
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation. Eventually, the husband arrives back at the houseboat just in time to prevent the wife from leaving him.
The Voice of Merrill
Sgt. Baker
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
The Hour of 13
Reporter (uncredited)
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Trent's Last Case
Inspector Murch
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.
The Big Frame
Fred, mechanic at Bristow & Brown
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
Derby Day
Harry Bunn
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.
Brandy for the Parson
Lorry Driver
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
Angels One Five
Mess Waiter
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Hunted
Potman
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Curtain Up
Ambulanceman
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.
Засекреченные люди
Irish Police Sergeant
Этот интригующий рассказ показывает, как женщина по имени Мария Брентано была вовлечена в заговор террористического акта. После того, как был случайно убит невинный свидетель, она помогает полиции найти заговорщиков.
Mr. Denning Drives North
(uncredited)
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Убийца по найму
Bert
Притворяясь торговцем редкими марками, мужчина преданно поддерживает жену и музыкально одаренного младшего брата как профессионального наемного убийцу.
Highly Dangerous
Customs Man (uncredited)
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
The Magnet
Postman
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Cage of Gold
Waiter (uncredited)
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
No Trace
Mechanic
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
Остров сокровищ
Cady
В поисках сокровищ легендарного пирата Флинта, британцы отправляются на отдалённый островок в Карибском море.В поисках сокровищ легендарного пирата Флинта, британцы отправляются на отдалённый островок в Карибском море.
Chance of a Lifetime
Worker
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
The Cure for Love
Charlie Fox
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.
Madness of the Heart
Soldier at Airport
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Пропуск в Пимлико
Sapper
Классическая британская комедия студии "Илинг". Обнаружив старый договор, юридически относящийся к давно несуществующему герцогству Бургундия, жители одного района Лондона объявляют независимость и формируют правительство. Теперь, чтобы попасть туда, нужно иметь "Пропуск в Пимлико".
Trottie True
'Bedford' Stage Manager (uncredited)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Горячее сердце
Driver (uncredited)
1945 год, конец Второй мировой войны. Группа солдат союзников находится в самодельном мобильном хирургическом госпитале британской армии, спрятанном глубоко в джунглях Бирмы. Однажды в дружном солдатском коллективе оказывается новичок из Шотландии, причем все знают, что скоро он должен умереть…
Obsession
Club steward
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
Vengeance Is Mine
Stacy
In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides to get revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. First he hires a man to kill him and frame the traitor. Later the fellow learns that he is not sick after all. Fortunately his hit man died. Later the man he wants to avenge has a final showdown with him. A struggle ensues and the fellow kills his enemy in self-defense.
Stop Press Girl
Railway Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Forbidden
Joe
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
The Small Back Room
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
Once a Jolly Swagman
Johnny Briggs (uncredited)
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Portrait from Life
Army Truck Driver
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
Scott of the Antarctic
Leading Stoker E. McKenzie R.N.
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
Trouble in the Air
A radio commentator is sent to a village to broadcast a bell-ringing team. Meanwhile a property speculator tries to buy a plot of land for less than it is worth.
Love in Waiting
Bit Part (uncredited)
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
To the Public Danger
Police Driver
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
A Song for Tomorrow
Sergeant
Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
Mr Jones Takes the Air
Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"