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The Flying Scot is a British film of genre Drama directed by Compton Bennett with Lee Patterson
The Flying Scot (1957)
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Add to a movie listThe Flying Scot is a 1957 British crime film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Lee Patterson, Kay Callard and Alan Gifford.
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A gang plans to rob a large number of banknotes from an express train.Actors
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There are 24 films with the same actors, 13 films with the same director, 72015 with the same cinematographic genres (including 3910 with exactly the same 3 genres than The Flying Scot), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Flying Scot, you will probably like those similar films :
Daybreak (1948)
, 1h15Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Bill Owen, Edward Rigby, Jane Hylton
Rating66%
Eddie (Portman) owns a London barber's shop and leads an apparently everyday life. However, under an assumed name he has a secret second identity known to no-one but his assistant Ron (Bill Owen) – he is also one of England's public hangmen, called on periodically to travel to prisons around the country to perform judicial executions.
That Woman Opposite (1957)
, 1h25Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy, Wilfrid Hyde-White, William Leo Franklyn, Petula Clark, Jack Watling
Rating60%
In a town on the French coast, English antiques dealer Maurice Lawes (Wilfrid Hyde-White) is a witness to the night-time murder of a gendarme. The killer spots Lawes at his window, and realises he has been seen. The following evening, Lawes' daughter Janice (Petula Clark) finds her father also murdered.
Desperate Moment (1953)
, 1h28Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven, Carl Jaffe, Fritz Wendhausen
Rating65%
A Dutchman wrongly accused of a crime goes on the run through Germany in search of the only witness who can clear him.
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
, 1h53Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh, Harry Davenport
Rating65%
Irene (Greer Garson) is the wife of Victorian "man of property" Soames Forsyte (Errol Flynn), having married without love but after many proposals. Rebelling against her husband's preoccupation with material possessions, a list in which she is included, Irene falls in love with unconventional architect Philip Bosinney (Robert Young), who is engaged to Soames' niece June (Janet Leigh), one of Irene's closest friends. Soames learns of Irene's affair with Bosinney, and rather than allowing Irene to leave him, he reasserts his physical rights. When Soames and Bosinney discover that Irene has run away, Bosinney rushes out in the foggy London streets after her, only to be run over in an accident. After Irene learns of Bosinney's death she takes refuge with Soames' cousin Young Jolyon (Walter Pidgeon), who is June's estranged father but has sympathy for Irene's plight. Irene and Young Jolyon eventually marry, after Irene spurns Soames' attempts at reconciliation.
The Seventh Veil (1945)
, 1h34Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven, Yvonne Owen
Rating66%
Francesca Cunningham (Ann Todd) is a silent, suicidal mental patient under the care of Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lom). Via hypnosis, Larsen leads her to describe her life history so he can investigate the events that brought her to attempt suicide. The film largely consists of a series of flashbacks in which Francesca talks about her life, removing successive "veils" to recover memories.
It Started in Paradise (1952)
, 1h34Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes La mode
Actors Jane Hylton, Martita Hunt, Muriel Pavlow, Terence Morgan, Ian Hunter, Ronald Squire
Rating57%
In 1938, Mme. Alice (Hunt), chief designer of a famous London fashion house, has lost her touch. Where once she was the most sought after designer in the city, now her creations seem locked in the past and clients are looking elsewhere for modern fashions. She is persuaded by her senior assistant Martha (Hylton) that she needs a long holiday to recapture her creative inspiration. Once Mme. Alice has departed the fiercely ambitious Martha, who has been biding her time for several years, launches a coup, designing and presenting a range of up-to-the-minute garments which are a huge success with the fashion media and bring clients flocking back to the salon. The financial backer of the business is delighted with the upturn in profits; Martha is promoted to chief designer and Mme. Alice is quietly retired.
So Little Time (1952)
, 1h28Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat, Barbara Mullen, John Bailey
Rating68%
In occupied Belgium during World War II, the chateau where Nicole de Malvines (Schell) lives with her mother (Gabrielle Dorziat) is partially requisitioned for use by German forces. Among those billeted there is Colonel Hohensee (Goring), a ruthlessly efficient officer. Having lost several male members of her family in the war, the proud and outspoken Nicole holds the Germans in contempt and has no hesitation in making her feelings clear.
Gift Horse (1952)
, 1h40Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Sonny Tufts, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan
Rating62%
A disgraced former commander re-enlists in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He forms the crew of his run-down ship, "HMS Ballantrae", ex "USS Whittier", one of the Town-class destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, into an efficient fighting force, before being sent on Operation Boadicea, a suicide mission.
Beyond the Curtain (1960)
Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, George Mikell, John Welch (Welsh)
Rating58%
An East German refugee finds herself trapped back in her old home city of Dresden when a flight she is on is forced down while flying between Berlin and West Germany. She is used by the Stasi, who want her to help them locate her dissident brother.
The Years Between (1946)
, 1h28Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson, Felix Aylmer, Dulcie Gray, Edward Rigby
Rating66%
The film charts the homecoming of a British MI6 officer, who had been working with the French Resistance and was presumed dead. His wife is about to marry again, and to become an MP, and all must now readjust to the new situation.