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Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
WarThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Disaster filmsActors James Mason,
Tommy Trinder,
Philip Friend,
Mervyn Johns,
William Hartnell,
Finlay CurrieRating66%
On 3 September 1939, at the start of World War II, several East End Londoners join the London County Council Auxiliary Fire Service. Tommy Turk (Trinder) is a light-hearted gambler who avoids work, living with his mother (Varley) who runs a local fish and chips shop. Tommy has bought a greyhound pup he names "Short Head" and hopes to race. Bob Matthews (Friend) is a newcomer to the East End who just lost his job and has to postpone his wedding to Nan Harper (Hiatt) as a result. Tommy and Bob meet in The Hopvine, a pub run by Ma and Pa Robbins (Muriel George and Pierce), whose son Ted (Mason) is a fireman with the London Fire Brigade. Ted's girl Susie has just joined the brigade as a dispatcher, but Ma Robbins' cannot hide her thinly disguised disapproval of Susie's love of dance halls. The Army won't accept new enlistments, so Tommy persuades Bob to join the AFS with him. Sam, a small-time thief of Guinness, inadvertently joins the service trying to avoid the clutches of Eastchapel Police Constable O'Brien (Richard George), who dogs him with the persistence of Javert. The three are assigned immediately to the "Q" sub-station of the East End's District 21, set up in a school to train under Ted., 1h35
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Mervyn Johns,
Glynis Johns,
Sally Ann Howes,
Françoise Rosay,
Richard Bird,
Tom WallsRating65%
David Davies, un célèbre chef d'orchestre, apprend qu'il ne lui reste que trois mois à vivre et son médecin lui propose de faire un séjour à The Halfway House, un petit hôtel situé dans une partie isolée du Pays de Galles. Parallèlement, Richard French est également en route pour l'hôtel avec sa fille, Joanna, qui à son insu ses parents discuter de leur projet de divorce. À la gare, ils rencontrent un jeune couple, Terence et Margaret, et tous les quatre marchent ensemble jusqu'à l'hôtel. Se rendent également à l'hôtel William Oakley, un profiteur de guerre, et son ami le capitaine Fortesque, qui vient de refuser de travailler comme directeur de prison parce qu'il ne veut pas contribuer à l'effort de guerre., 2h14
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about terrorism,
Political filmsActors Laurence Olivier,
Charlton Heston,
Richard Johnson,
Ralph Richardson,
Alexander Knox,
Michael HordernRating67%
In 1883, in the Sudan, a force of 10,000 poorly trained Egyptians under the command of British Col. William "Billy" Hicks (Edward Underdown) is lured into the desert and slaughtered by Muslim zealots led by Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier), a fanatic Sudanese Arab who believes he is the Mahdi, the prophesied "expected one of Mohammed." The British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (Ralph Richardson), who does not wish to send more military forces to Khartoum, is under great pressure to send military hero Major General Charles George Gordon (Charlton Heston) there to salvage the situation and restore British prestige. Gordon has strong ties to Sudan, having broken the slave trade there in the past, but Gladstone distrusts him. Gordon has a reputation for strong, if eccentric, religious beliefs and following his own judgement, regardless of his orders. Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the British foreign secretary (Michael Hordern), knowing this, tells Gladstone that by sending Gordon to Khartoum, the British government can ignore all public pressure to send an army there, and absolve themselves of any responsibility over the area if Gordon ignores his orders. Gladstone is mildly shocked at the suggestion, but as it is popular with the public and Queen Victoria, he adopts it for the sake of expediency., 1h38
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
WarThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors David Farrar,
Glynis Johns,
Mai Zetterling,
Flora Robson,
Albert Lieven,
Barbara EverestRating71%
Frieda (Mai Zetterling) is a German woman who helps English airman Robert (David Farrar) to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. She loves him; he is only grateful to her. In a church between the Russian-German lines however, Robert marries her, so that she may obtain a British passport. Together they eventually arrive in his Oxfordshire home. Frieda meets his family - his mother, his small stepbrother Tony, Judy (Glynis Johns), the attractive widow of Robert's brother, and Aunt Eleanor (Flora Robson), a figure in local politics and vehemently anti-German., 1h20
Directed by Basil Dearden,
Will HayOrigin United-kingdomGenres War,
ComedyThemes Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Political films,
Documentary films about World War IIActors Will Hay,
John Mills,
Basil Sydney,
Henry Hewitt,
Felix Aylmer,
Frank CellierRating66%
When he is forced to vacate the office of his debt-ridden correspondence college, 'Professor' Will Davis (Will Hay) goes to the Ministry of International Commerce at Whitehall in order to confront his one-and-only student, PR man Bobby Jessop (John Mills). To get Davis off his back, Jessop proposes to get him a job at Whitehall. Jessop then leaves in order to fetch a Professor Davys at the railway station. The professor is a leading economist who has returned from a long stay in South America in order to advise the British government on a trade treaty with the South American nations, which could be crucial to Britain's war effort., 1h26
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about terrorism,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors John Mills,
Dirk Bogarde,
Robert Beatty,
Elizabeth Sellars,
Barbara Mullen,
Jack MacGowranRating63%
John Mills and Dirk Bogarde, bizarrely, were the actors chosen to play two IRA men under cover in London during World War II. The lads are captured after (Terry) starts questioning the worth of war, a line of thinking never popular with armies. They are sprung from captivity by Connolly (Liam Redmond) and his IRA men. Nice cameo by Jack McGowran., 1h49
Directed by Basil DeardenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
ActionThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Dirk Bogarde,
Mary Ure,
John Clements,
Michael Bryant,
Wendy Craig,
Harold GoldblattRating63%
Professor Sharpey commits suicide after subjecting himself to sensory deprivation experiments in a secret research laboratory. His former colleague Doctor Longman volunteers to undergo the same tests to try and establish what drove Sharpey to kill himself. He hopes to clear Sharpley's name with the police, who favour the theory that Sharpley was a double agent, perhaps allied with Communists, and that his death was the final result of his shame over betraying Great Britain. Longman begins subjecting himself to sessions in a sensory deprivation tank in order to prove that use of the technique can make one unusually suceptable to brainwashing or hypnotic suggestion., 1h30
Directed by Charles CrichtonOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
SpyThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Robert Beatty,
Simone Signoret,
Jack Warner,
Gordon Jackson,
Paul Dupuis,
Gisèle PrévilleRating62%
A disparate group of individuals is recruited by the wartime British Special Operations Executive to train for covert operations behind enemy lines in Belgium. These include a priest (Beatty) and a Belgian émigrée (Signoret), the latter having suffered personal tragedy during the occupation of Belgium. Her motives are initially questioned before she is finally given the green light. On completion of their training the operatives are parachuted into Belgium, briefed to destroy a Nazi records office in Brussels and to spring a prominent S.O.E. agent from custody. As the group arrive in Belgium, the S.O.E. discover that one of their number is a double-agent; however it is too late to raise the alert.