Cast: William Franklyn

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring William Franklyn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Cul-de-sac

1966 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Donald Pleasence · Françoise Dorléac · Lionel Stander · Jack MacGowran

Synopsis A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

The Snorkel

1958 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Peter van Eyck · Betta St. John · Mandy Miller · Grégoire Aslan

Synopsis Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.

6.4

123 votes

6.4

123 votes

Quatermass II (Quatermass 2)

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Brian Donlevy · John Longden · Sid James · Bryan Forbes

Synopsis Sequel to THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT in which Professor Quatermass, investigating an area of much meteroric activity, discovers that a government research station is instead a center for gaseous aliens from outer space. Their mission: to invade the bodies of British...

6.4

712 votes

6.4

712 votes

5.1

49 votes

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

1973 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Gibson

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Michael Coles · William Franklyn

Synopsis In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (a descendant of the great vampire-hunter himself, no less) to help them put...

5.0

553 votes

5.0

553 votes

Splitting Heirs

1993 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Young

Cast Eric Idle · Rick Moranis · Barbara Hershey · Catherine Zeta-Jones

Synopsis Idle is a stock broker who was raised by a family of Hindus, and then finds he was adopted by them and he is the rightful heir to the dukedom belonging to his friend and boss Rick Moranis. Barbara Hershey...

4.3

706 votes

4.3

706 votes

That Woman Opposite

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Phyllis Kirk · Dan O'Herlihy · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Petula Clark

Synopsis A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir Maurice Lawes sees a gendarme beaten to death and the...

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Pit of Darkness

1961 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast William Franklyn · Moira Redmond · Bruno Barnabe · Leonard Sachs

Synopsis When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by...

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Ooh... You Are Awful

1972 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cliff Owen

Cast Dick Emery · Derren Nesbitt · Ronald Fraser · William Franklyn

Synopsis Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is...

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Direction Cliff Owen · Michael Scott · Henry Kaplan · Silvio Narizzano

Cast Andrew Faulds · William Mervyn · George Skillan · Ballard Berkeley

Synopsis TV Series (1960). 10 episodes. A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.

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Danger Within

1959 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Chaffey

Cast Richard Todd · Bernard Lee · Michael Wilding · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

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The Intelligence Men

1965 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Asher

Cast Eric Morecambe · Ernie Wise · William Franklyn · April Olrich

Synopsis A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed...

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Time Is My Enemy

1954 · Movie · 64 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Chaffey

Cast Dennis Price · Renée Asherson · Patrick Barr · Duncan Lamont

Synopsis In this crime drama a murderer covers his tracks by framing his wife. He does this by posing as his victim and forcing his wife to shoot him (with a blank-filled gun). The woman then confesses her crime. Fortunately, a...

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