The Teckman Mystery is a 1954 British mystery film directed by Wendy Toye and starring Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver and Michael Medwin.
Directed byWendy Toye OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ActorsKenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller, Ronald Squire, Olga Lindo, Anita Sharp-Bolster Rating65% Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighbourhood.
, 1h19 Directed byWendy Toye OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ActorsNigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson, David Hurst, Leo McKern, Nicholas Phipps Rating55% Filmed on location in Switzerland the story concerns two young bachelors taking separate skiing holidays at the same resort. Clive Morton (Nigel Patrick) and "Humpy" Miller (David Tomlinson) have nothing whatsoever in common—except for one thing, both men fall for the hotel proprietor's daughter Mary (Jill Day). As the story progresses Clive, a debonair soldier and sportsman gets quickly into his stride as poor "Humpy" a clumsy, incongruous fellow looks on dumbly.
, 1h30 Directed byTerence Young OriginUnited-kingdom GenresAdventure ThemesFilms set in Africa ActorsVictor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Liam Redmond Rating56% When American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau terrorists attack his farm; slaughtering the labourers and livestock. Duffield's son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a poor transliteration of Njoroge) (Earl Cameron) is actually a Mau Mau general. From inside the farmhouse, Jeroge murders Aunt May with a machete and Charlie by repeatedly firing May's rifle into the child.
, 1h57 Directed byAnthony Asquith OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama ThemesThéâtre, Films based on plays ActorsRobert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Neil North, Jack Watling Rating75% Ronnie Winslow (Neil North), a cadet at the Royal Naval College, is accused of the theft of a postal order. An internal enquiry which grants him no chance of defence, finds him guilty and his father, Arthur Winslow (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), is requested to remove his son from the college. Unwilling to accept the verdict, Winslow and his daughter Catherine institute their own enquiries and engage a friend and family solicitor, Desmond Curry (Basil Radford) to assist them, including the briefing of the best barrister in England at the time, Sir Robert Morton (Robert Donat), should the case come to court.