Cast: Robert Ayres

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


The Story of Esther Costello

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Rossano Brazzi · Heather Sears · Lee Patterson

Plot Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

A Prize of Gold

1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Richard Widmark · Mai Zetterling · Nigel Patrick · George Cole

Plot Stolen Gold ... for the girl with the golden flesh! In this Taut post-war thriller Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American army sergeant who steals a shipment of Nazi...

5.4

78 votes

5.4

78 votes

Contraband Spain

1955 · Movie · 78 min. · Spain

Direction Lawrence Huntington · Julio Salvador

Cast Richard Greene · Anouk Aimée · Michel Dennison · José Nieto

Plot Robin Hood star Richard Greene plays an agent who goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. He is helped by...

5.1

31 votes

5.1

31 votes

First Man Into Space

1959 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Day

Cast Marshall Thompson · Marla Landi · Bill Edwards · Robert Ayres

Plot Navy test pilot Lieut. Dan Prescott, in experimental rocket plane Y-13, disobeys orders and becomes the first man to fly outside the ionosphere. Unable to turn, he ejects...and is plastered...

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5.0

39 votes

5.0

39 votes

Battle Beneath the Earth

1967 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Kerwin Mathews · Vivienne Ventura · Robert Ayres · Peter Arne

Plot A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels made all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean! Wherever there is an important military base,...

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The Sicilians

1964 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ernest Morris

Cast Robert Hutton · Reginald Marsh · Ursula Howells · Alex Scott

Plot An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a Mafia boss who...

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The Black Widow

1951 · Movie · 62 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Sewell

Cast Christine Norden · Robert Ayres · Jennifer Jayne · Anthony Forwood

Plot Mark Sherwin ( Robert Ayres) is the victim of a brutal beating and car theft. The thief dies in a crash; Mark suffers from amnesia, and recuperates on a horse-training...

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Cosh Boy

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast James Kenney · Joan Collins · Betty Ann Davies · Robert Ayres

Plot Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother,...

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24 Hours of a Woman's Life

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Merle Oberon · Richard Todd · Leo Genn · Stephen Murray

Plot Writer Robert Sterling is visiting a café, when suddenly a scandal becomes known. To keep the others from overreacting, Sterling tells them about something similar that he saw happen years...

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The Wedding of Lilli Marlene

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Crabtree

Cast Lisa Daniely · Hugh McDermott · Sid James · Gabrielle Brune

Plot After the end of World War 2, Lilli Marlene and American reporter Steve Moray plan to marry, but when Lilli gets a chance for a big break on the London...

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Operation Murder

1957 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ernest Morris

Cast Tom Conway · Sandra Dorne · Patrick Holt · Rosamund John

Plot Dr. Wayne is a brilliant surgeon. He is jealous of his friend Bowen, who may be paying too much attention to Pat, the surgeon's seductive spouse. When Wayne must perform...

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River Beat

1954 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Phyllis Kirk · John Bentley · Robert Ayres · Leonard White

Plot A London police inspector is patrolling the river looking for smugglers, when he becomes attracted to a woman working as a ship's radio operator. When the woman turns up in...

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The Girl Swappers

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast George Chakiris · Janette Scott · Alfred Lynch · Jocelyn Lane

Plot An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple...

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It's Never Too Late

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

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13 East Street

1952 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert S. Baker

Cast Patrick Holt · Sandra Dorne · Sonia Holm · Robert Ayres

Plot When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewelry store, gets caught and is sentenced...

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Time Lock

1957 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Robert Beatty · Lee Patterson · Betty McDowall · Vincent Winter

Plot A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Crabtree · Michael McCarthy · Lance Comfort · Joseph Sterling

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Christopher Lee · Ron Randell · Barbara Mullen

Plot TV Series (1953-1957). 156 episodes. Fairbanks narrated, produced and frequently starred in this anthology series which presented everything from drama to mystery to farce. Filmed in England, usually with lesser...

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Cat Girl

1957 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Shaughnessy

Cast Barbara Shelley · Robert Ayres · Kay Callard · Ernest Milton

Plot A young woman inherits a family curse that turns her into a murderous feline when she is angered.

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Night Without Stars

1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Pelissier

Cast David Farrar · Nadia Gray · Maurice Teynac · Gilles Quéant

Plot A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved...

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