Search results for "Miles Malleson"
Murder Ahoy

Murder Ahoy

Murder Ahoy
IMDb: 7
93

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at…

First Men in the Moon

First Men in the Moon

First Men in the Moon
IMDb: 6.5
103

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world’s astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British…

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom
IMDb: 7.6
101

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he’s making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the…

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
IMDb: 6.6
97

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading…

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
IMDb: 6.6
85

London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Brides of Dracula

The Brides of Dracula

The Brides of Dracula
IMDb: 6.6
86

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes…

Genre: Horror
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
IMDb: 6.2
88

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…

Genre: Comedy
I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack

I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.1
105

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the…

Genre: Comedy
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 6.9
87

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table
IMDb: 5.9
90

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship,…

Genre: Comedy
Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask
IMDb: 6.1
99

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.

Genre: Drama
The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth
IMDb: 6.8
91

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit)…

Genre: Comedy
Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride
IMDb: 6.6
84

In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over…

Genre: Comedy
Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law
IMDb: 6.4
94

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…

Genre: Comedy
Private’s Progress

Private’s Progress

Private’s Progress
IMDb: 6.4
97

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends…

Genre: Comedy, War
King’s Rhapsody

King’s Rhapsody

King’s Rhapsody
IMDb: 4.8
93

Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Geordie

Geordie

Geordie
IMDb: 6.8
95

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as “Wee Geordie” in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Captain’s Paradise

The Captain’s Paradise

The Captain’s Paradise
IMDb: 6.8
94

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case
IMDb: 6
90

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…

Genre: Mystery
Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt
IMDb: 5.1
79

Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.

Genre: Comedy
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest
IMDb: 7.4
95

Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend — whom he knows as “Ernest” — is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to…

Genre: Comedy
Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise
IMDb: 6.1
91

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from…

Genre: Comedy
Golden Salamander

Golden Salamander

Golden Salamander
IMDb: 6.3
97

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

Stage Fright

Stage Fright

Stage Fright
IMDb: 7
110

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Genre: Thriller
Train of Events

Train of Events

Train of Events
IMDb: 6.5
88

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Genre: Drama
The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades
IMDb: 7.1
95

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets
IMDb: 8
104

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
IMDb: 7.5
103

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that…

Genre: Horror, Thriller
The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad
IMDb: 7.4
106

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well…

Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose
IMDb: 6.5
80

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Genre: Drama, History
Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn
IMDb: 6.2
85

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of…

Genre: History