Willoughby (uncredited)
Английский король Генрих VIII всю жизнь мечтал о наследнике, но его жена, королева Екатерина Арагонская за долгие годы совместной жизни произвела на свет лишь дочь. Король просит у Папы римского разрешения на развод. Генрих хочет сделать новой королевой восемнадцатилетнюю Анну Болейн, уже беременную от него. Из Ватикана приходит отказ на просьбу короля. В 1533 году Генрих VIII идет на разрыв с католической церковью и становится основателем новой церкви — англиканской. Генрих устраняет все препятствия и добивается коронации Анны. Но его надеждам не суждено оправдаться, Анна приносит мужу еще одну дочь. Их брак продлится недолго, всего три года. Затем Анна Болейн будет обвинена своим мужем в прелюбодеянии и обезглавлена. В скором времени Генрих женится на другой, надеясь, что новая избранница все же родит ему сына…
Judge
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an aging barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm.
Quayle
Маркус, отсидев срок за растрату, выходит из тюрьмы. Познакомившись с талантливым программистом Цезарем Смитом, он убеждает его исполнить мечту всей жизни Цезаря - отправиться на охоту за бабочками в бассейн Амазонки. Используя резюме Цезаря, Маркус устраивается на работу в крупную корпорацию и затевает сложную и длинную аферу под самым носом у начальства. Попутно он влюбляется в Пэтти, бестолковую секретаршу и неудавшуюся флейтистку, и женится на ней...
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
The Prior
Действие картины разворачивается во время крестового похода детей, когда в 1212 году в пропагандистских целях была запущена идея о том, что Иерусалим может быть освобожден руками невинных детей. Присоединившийся к походу монах постепенно понимает, что многие принимают в нем участие вовсе не по религиозным мотивам, да и само предприятие запущено вовсе не по воле бога. Он считает, что поход должен быть прекращен. Но, будучи не в силах остановить движение детей, покидает их.
Colonel
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
First Clubman
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.
Neighbour
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty
Mr. Warre-Monger
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
General
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
Sir Arthur Carlton-Browne
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.
Judge
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.
Prof. R. E. Walgate
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
Mr. Sparrow
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
Air Minister
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Sir Charles Shepley-Cooke
Humphrey assigns a "watchdog" to keep an eye on his wife Rose, whom he thinks is a thief. She isn't - but the watchdog is.
Mr. Justice Lawson
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Colonel Wright
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Mc. Tavish
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Mr. Ronson
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Munro
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Pathologist
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.
Lord Grant
A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.
Rev. Ian Macaulay
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Barworth Director
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Burgomaster - Policeman
Лампидорра - самая маленькая и самая бедная страна в Европе. Веками находясь вдали от прогресса цивилизации, к началу повествования страна была продана богатому американцу за 100 000 долларов. После скоропостижной кончины новоявленного Великого Герцога его наследницей стала Линди Смит, простая продавщица из Нью-Йорка. Ей предстоит спасти маленькую страну от финансового коллапса с помощью молодого британца, представителя крупной сырной компании...
Vicar
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Adm. Lord Hood
1807 год. Британский военно-морской флот послан к берегам центральной Америки с секретной миссией по оказанию помощи лидеру латиноамериканской революции. Восемь месяцев продлится это опасное плавание, а возглавит военную экспедицию Капитан Горацио Хорнблоуэр. Отважному капитану предстоит пройти тысячи морских миль, вступить в бой с вражеским флотом, одержать победу и встретить свою любовь — красавицу Барбару
Sir Randolph Towle
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Mr. Dale
A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
Father
Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.
Dr. Penny
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
Gen. Maitland
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the program to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
Sir Robert Hammond
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.
uncredited
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The Bishop
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Captain Dishart
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
Dr. Morrison
The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them; subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in her own manner in their quiet English manor
Dr. Chawner
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Mr. Bennett
Беделия счастливо живёт в Монте-Карло со своим богатым мужем Чарли Каррингтоном. Но тут появляется молодой художник Бен Чейни, который начинает проявлять особое любопытство к её прошлому. Скоро Чейни, который на самом деле является детективом, узнаёт, что предыдущие три мужа Беделии скончались, и в каждом случае незадолго до смерти ими была оформлена страховка в пользу жены.
Beales
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Crossley King’s Council
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
Younger
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Horse Dealer
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
Naval Officer in Charge of Court Martial
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
(uncredited)
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Magistrate
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Strother
The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.
Prof Devar
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
Dr. Manners
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
James Franklin
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
Sir Montague Tollemach
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
Doctor (uncredited)
Молодой доктор Эндрю Мэнсон работал в маленьком шахтерском городке, но понял, что не может справиться с истинными причинами тяжелых болезней, которыми страдали бедные рабочие люди. Он переехал в Лондон, где приятель подсказал Мэнсону, как можно "раскручивать" богатых клиентов...
The Rev. Ovington
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
Blinkers Grayson
Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance
Major Burke
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
John
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
Benedict Popinot
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Colonel Fitzroy
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Duke of Merton
Действие романа разворачивается в Лондоне и его пригородах. В центре сюжета лежит расследование убийства богатого и знатного семейного тирана — лорда Эджвера, которого подспудно (прямо в романе это не констатируется, хотя Гастингс упоминает собрание сочинений маркиза де Сада, увиденное в его библиотеке) уличают в склонности к садизму. Убийство происходит в собственной библиотеке лорда Эджвера в его доме. При этом обстоятельства убийства, в отличие от большинства других романов А. Кристи, не представляют собой ничего интересного. Интрига заключается в том, что убийство сопровождалось костюмированным розыгрышем, и в течение всего романа следствие пытается понять, кто стоял за этим розыгрышем и имеет ли он вообще отношение к убийству.
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bob Mitchell
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Bartholomew Sholto
Шерлок Холмс и доктор Ватсон намерены защитить Мэри Морстан, девушку, до смерти напуганную сбежавшим убийцей, который разыскивает свое украденное наследство и жаждет отомстить тому, кто его украл. Он уже подбирается к Мэри в то время, как Холмс и Ватсон пытаются найти разгадку на странном карнавале, на котором присутствуют лишь карлики мужчины, покрытые татуировками. Когда же Мэри похищают, ситуация превращается в отчаянную борьбу за время.
An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.